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1 CONFESSIONS of a SUBPRIME LENDER An Insider s Tale of Greed, Fraud, and Ignorance Conveys the authority of someone who was in the trenches where this dirty work was going on. NEWSWEEK RICHARD BITNER
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5 CONFESSIONS OF A SUBPRIME LENDER An Insider s Tale of Greed, Fraud, and Ignorance RICHARD BITNER JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC.
6 Copyright 2008 by Richard Bitner. All rights reserved. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey. Published simultaneously in Canada. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning, or otherwise, except as permitted under Section 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permission of the Publisher, or authorization through payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the Copyright Clearance Center, Inc., 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, (978) , fax (978) , or on the web at Requests to the Publisher for permission should be addressed to the Permissions Department, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030, (201) , fax (201) , or online at Limit of Liability/Disclaimer of Warranty: While the publisher and author have used their best efforts in preparing this book, they make no representations or warranties with respect to the accuracy or completeness of the contents of this book and specifically disclaim any implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. No warranty may be created or extended by sales representatives or written sales materials. The advice and strategies contained herein may not be suitable for your situation. You should consult with a professional where appropriate. Neither the publisher nor author shall be liable for any loss of profit or any other commercial damages, including but not limited to special, incidental, consequential, or other damages. For general information on our other products and services or for technical support, please contact our Customer Care Department within the United States at (800) , outside the United States at (317) or fax (317) Wiley also publishes its books in a variety of electronic formats. Some content that appears in print may not be available in electronic books. For more information about Wiley products, visit our web site at Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Bitner, Richard. Confessions of a subprime lender : an insider s tale of greed, fraud, and ignorance / Richard Bitner. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN (pbk.) 1. Mortgage brokers United States. 2. Mortgage loans United States. I. Title. HG2040.B ' dc Printed in the United States of America
7 To Deborah, Andrew, and Matthew For always inspiring me To Mom and Dad, Thanks for never letting me forget the difference between right and wrong
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9 CONTENTS Acknowledgments Introduction ix xi CHAPTER 1 Why I Bailed Out of the Industry 1 CHAPTER 2 The Gunslinging Business of Subprime Lending 15 CHAPTER 3 The Underbelly: Mortgage Brokers 39 CHAPTER 4 CHAPTER 5 CHAPTER 6 Making Chicken Salad Out of Chicken Shit: The Art of Creative Financing 73 Wall Street and the Rating Agencies: Greed at Its Worst 103 Secondary Contributors: The Fed, Consumers, Retail Lenders, Homebuilders, and Realtors 127 CHAPTER 7 How to Fix a Broken Industry 151 Glossary 183 Resources 185 vii
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11 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS There are numerous people to thank for their contributions. First, my thanks to Michele Burke and Rich Trombetta, who provided critical feedback during the earliest phase of my writing and encouraged me to keep going. I d like to acknowledge Ryan Miller, Rob Legg, Vince Dimare, Annie Nguyen, Tres Petree, and Frank Partnoy for their contributions. I also want to thank the numerous mortgage industry professionals who provided their insights but asked not to be identified. Lisa Gold, my editor, was instrumental in helping me work through the writing process to produce the final product. You are a gem. To my former business partners, Mike Elliott and Ken Orman, for helping to build Kellner Mortgage Investments. You were the greatest business partners a person could have asked for. In addition, I d like to recognize Bob Kellner for his patience, guidance, and wisdom. Bob truly embodied the spirit that was Kellner Mortgage. Finally, a special thanks to Ken Orman. Your willingness to help me work through the details of this story was invaluable. This book would not have been possible without your help. ix
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13 INTRODUCTION Ayear ago, I never thought there would be a need for me to write about the subprime industry. I knew the business was flawed, but it seemed inconceivable the events of 2007 would play out as they did. An entire segment of the lending industry has disappeared and the news gets worse by the day. Home sales have slowed, prices have fallen, credit has tightened, and the true extent of this problem, I believe, is still unknown. It has left many people wondering how bad the crisis will get. As a 14-year veteran of the mortgage industry, five of which were spent as the owner of a Dallas-based subprime lender, Kellner Mortgage Investments, I sat front and center in the middle of this debacle. Compared to the big boys like Countrywide Financial or Washington Mutual, my firm was a small player. At our peak, we were on pace to close $250 million a year in subprime mortgages not an inconsequential figure, but only a fraction of what the largest players were funding. Being a lender of this size, however, afforded me a unique perspective. A typical day involved working with small mortgage brokers as well as the largest mortgage securitizers in the country. I saw the inner workings of the subprime industry from one end to the other. Although this book is based on my experiences as a lender, it s also representative of how the entire subprime industry operated. Part of my research included interviews with numerous colleagues, many of whom worked for, managed, or owned subprime mortgage companies. I wanted to be certain that the business practices I describe xi
14 xii Introduction were typical of the subprime industry and not isolated to my world. The insight and feedback from these colleagues were invaluable to my portrayal of the volatile mortgage business. This is the second go-round for this book. It was originally developed as a self-published work called Greed, Fraud & Ignorance: A Subprime Insider s Look at the Mortgage Collapse, which I began writing in August I knew we were facing a problem of historic proportions and I felt the United States was about to experience the worst business debacle in modern history. Little did I know how right I d be. The problem is huge in part because so many things went wrong. First, unlike most business disasters driven by the malfeasance of a few leaders sitting at the top of the food chain, the current crisis is a result of systemic problems that extended from one end of the industry to the other. There is no single person or group who bears the greatest responsibility. Second, with 65 percent of all Americans owning a home, no other business disaster has had such a broad impact on so many people. Third, once the real estate market stops its current freefall and the gains and losses are tallied, both from the rise and fall in home equity and from losses sustained in the mortgage-backed securities market, the loss figure will reach into the trillions. Yes, trillions. I started writing this book believing that somebody who experienced the debacle first-hand should tell the story. I quickly realized, however, that wasn t enough of a reason for writing. For me, there had to be more. Having spent most of my business career in mortgage lending, I ve generally considered myself to be an industry lifer. I want to see the mortgage industry find its moral compass and get back to the business of intelligently lending money. This can t happen without some significant changes taking place. While this book is an insider s perspective on what went wrong, the final chapter focuses on the solution. My hope that these critical changes will be made became, ultimately, my motive for writing.
15 Introduction xiii Before John Wiley & Sons, Inc. entered the picture, Dan McGinn at Newsweek wrote an article about the earlier version of this book. Since subprime had become the newest four-letter word in the American vernacular, I knew there would be some negative reactions, but nothing prepared me for the unmitigated hatred that was directed my way. Like it or not, by putting pen to paper I had become the poster child for the subprime industry. I was guilty by association. Reading through the several hundred comments that were posted online, which recommended everything from jail time to my being drawn and quartered, I d be lying if I said they didn t bother me. If you ve been raised to believe that you should do right by others and you attempt do so on a daily basis, it s impossible not to be affected by such comments. Let me be clear. I m not looking for sympathy or validation. I hang my hat on the fact that during my five years as a subprime lender, my firm had an average delinquency rate of less than 3 percent. If you compare that to the current subprime delinquency rate, which hovers around 20 percent, it means my company was effective at putting borrowers into mortgage loans they could afford. That is the only criterion, in my opinion, by which a lender should be judged. That aside, one thing is clear. Even those of us who operated with the best of intentions, and who believed in the economic benefits subprime lending had to offer, found it increasingly difficult to effectively manage risk during the last few years before the collapse. It was also difficult just to stay competitive in the marketplace. When that happens, errors in judgment take place and mistakes get made. Certainly there was no shortage in that department. This book is about only the subprime industry, but I hope most readers will understand that the mortgage crisis is not isolated to the subprime segment of the mortgage business. Significant mistakes were also taking place with other mortgage product offerings, including those for borrowers who had good credit. They ve just taken longer to show up in the delinquency reports. I discuss this more in the final chapter.
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