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If you’re a homeowner with an adjustable rate mortgage that’s close to resetting to a higher and variable rate, I hope you’re ready to make the payment. If you can’t afford the new payment, you may not have anywhere to go for help. Specifically, don’t expect your lender to cut you any slack.

Does that mean no one in the financial world is concerned about the billions of dollars in mortgage resets coming in the next few years? No. The financial world is concerned….about themselves. Right now some of the major players are negotiating an $80 Billion fund to bail themselves out of trouble as their customers are unable to make their new, higher payments.

Jim Jubak of msn.com reports that all of this will lead to the inevitable - a massive flood of foreclosures and delinquent loans. Tens of thousands of homeowners will lose their homes or at least see their personal credit destroyed.

So who’s to blame? A lot of people want to blame the lenders for acting irresponsibly when they extended all this credit to questionable borrowers. I guess that’s one angle you can take, but I only agree to a certain extent. On one hand, the lenders are the experts and they should have advised the borrowers the real risks of such unorthodox loan packages. On the other hand, buyer beware. If you got caught up in the hype and bought way too much house for your budget, then shame on you. Foreclosure, and potentially bankruptcy, will be your reward. I’m sorry.

What can borrowers do? Well, the first thing you need to do is ring your bank’s phone off the hook. It will be tough, because they don’t want to hear from you, and they definitely don’t want to cut you a break on your payments or interest rate. But it’s worth a shot. Just a day or two ago we posted here about how Countrywide is helping over 50,000 of its borrowers so they can stay compliant with the terms of their loans.