Back as the credit crunch was picking up steam wholesale account reps would parade in to our offices touting the saving grace of our brokerage - reverse mortgages. As a FHA-approved lender we were eligible to write reverse mortgages for seniors who had lots of equity, little cash, and no other assets to live off of (for the most part). These wholesale reps were excited because their banks had just opened up a new wave of products called "jumbo reverse mortgages" which went far beyond the lending limits of the FHA-insured Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) for high-value areas such as California.
The siren call was the same - these loans were expensive and property-owners strapped for cash had little opportunity to extract equity in any other way. The jumbo reverse mortgages were the
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