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With all of the confusing news out there about the state of the economy and the availability of mortgage loans most consumers seldom know where to turn to find the truth. One day the media outlets say one thing than the next another says the exact opposite. No wonder most consumers just follow the herd riding the current of uncertainty.

Here are some historical facts that all consumers should remember. A nation goes into recession when consumer spending drops, meaning the only way it goes back up is when consumer spending goes up. This is a natural ebb and flow of the world of finance.

When investors want to make successful investments they have to look for a potential trend and try to predict what financial trends the rest of the world will be investing in next. By the time most small investors are following a trend that trend is most likely on the down slide. Savvy investors also know that as the average investor has moved on from a trend there are still many great opportunities that can be had in the cleanup, but the money to be made in the cleanup is not usually the kind that large scale investors will go after.

As an example look at the current state of the mortgage industry and how while all of the large scale investors were pouring trillions of dollars into credit default swaps (CDS’s) and collateralized debt obligations (CDO’s) tied to mortgages the financial institutions were making new mortgage loans to anyone and everyone. Now that the majority of lager scale investors are moving on to the next trend they are leaving a lot of great opportunities behind for the small investor in the real estate sector.

Obviously when everyone is buying the same thing prices go up, when very few are buying the price goes down. When everyone nationwide was not only encouraged to buy real estate no matter what their credit rating was, home prices soared. Currently very few are out buying property, they’ve followed the herd that has its head in the sand, causing real estate prices to fall due to lack of demand.

With home sales down and prices falling, the Fed has lowered interest rates to historic lows in an attempt to push up home sales. Small investors and consumers couldn’t ask for better opportunities to take advantage of the current interest rate on mortgage loans and pick up incredible deals on homes.

The Federal Government knows that the only way to quickly push up home sales is to get new money into the system, so to do their part they’re offering first time home buyers up to an $8000.00 tax credit to bring them into the market. This tactic will work and it’s already starting to show signs of success. As if January 2009 there has been an increase in applications for mortgage loans and as of September 2008 the FDIC’s statistics show that some banks are lending more to consumers.

The Fed is projecting the recession that started in December 2007 will most likely end by mid 2009. And as any Economist will tell you the only way out of recession is through spending and positive growth. Home sales are key to this, so as home sales go up, sales prices and interest rates will end up rising as well. Consumers interested in getting in on these deals should start now, before everyone else does and the deals begin to vanish.