yeah actually that's exactly what happened dude. ARe "you" serious? You don't know that they "WERE NOT" doing income verification? Are you just now coming out of a long sabbatical in the woods? Did you just finish shavin off a 5 year beard and decide to reply to my post? You could put any income you wanted on the forms and they were hinting at you the whole time that it's "Illegal for us now to verify your income". That was a big part of this whole mess that people who had no chance in hell of making payments on a 300k home were gettting the mortgages. These people weren't lasting 6 months in their house's....and yeah Java the banks were making money on foreclosures, they were packaging off the high risk debt and selling it to the chinese who I realy don't know why but were eatin that shit up.
Seriously you guys don't remember any of this? wtf where am I?
I worked for a large lender. I think I know how it worked and what happened. I told you how income was "checked" on a stated income loan. If it didn't line up, the loan was rejected. On no doc loans, they relied heavily on credit history. No credit or bad credit (aka, your ghetto buyers) - NO FUCKING LOAN.
Was there massive fraud done on those types of loans? You bet! And it was all about money. On both sides (borrower and broker/LO). Someone with a lawn mowing business could state they made $12,000 a month to buy that $500,000 home on 100% financing, sure. They could even go file for a business license at the beginning of the loan process, put a "business listing" on superpages.com (free), and take a picture of their truck with a law mower, weed eater, and a couple rakes in the back as proof of their business (it would be better if they had a sign on the truck too). And say they mowed 12 yards a day at $40 a yard working 25 days a month on average and it would be possible. Not probable, but possible. But that borrower still had to have a decent FICO with minimal credit history (3 lines - at least one installment (like a car loan) with at least 12 months history on that and 2 years of total history) .
Also, you are a fucking fool if you think a bank/lender writes a loan hoping it will default. Stick with killer unpaid, hay bailing, 400% efficient turbines producing all natural pot smoke internships bro.