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Loan officer: I’m seeing middle class homebuyers take on $7,000 mortgages thinking they can ‘always refinance when rates come down in the future’
Fortune Magazine ^ | 07/19/2023 | Lance Lambert

Posted on 07/20/2023 5:56:19 AM PDT by millenial4freedom

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To: Oscar in Batangas

The old story (Reagan?) about the guy that would leave East Berlin with a wheelbarrow full of stuff and go to W. Berlin each day. The guard would go through the contents and never find any contraband.

One day the wheelbarrow guy leaves, and yells back to the guard “Hey - it’s my last day of work and I’m retiring. You never figured out what I was smuggling! It was the wheelbarrows!”


121 posted on 07/20/2023 2:18:53 PM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful.)
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To: cableguymn

Probably never notice.
Nope.

By this I mean they won’t give you notice.
You might get a notice on the tax deed sale though.

Everybody likes a sale!
It’s almost like saving money
Almost


122 posted on 07/20/2023 2:28:11 PM PDT by SheepWhisperer (Get involved with, or start a home fellowship group. It will be the final church. ACTS 2:42-47)
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To: SheepWhisperer

The property tax if it should exist at all should be fixed at the value of the house when bought and not a increase value that the city decides it is worth.
Same for credit cards. They keep raising the rates from the agreed upon rate. I looked at a statement for a Chase card from 2+ years ago. The rate was 11.24% and today it is 24.24%. There has been zero balance on it for those 2+ years.


123 posted on 07/20/2023 9:07:57 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: millenial4freedom

If the market crashes and home prices plummet, they won’t be able to refinance.


124 posted on 07/21/2023 10:03:43 AM PDT by PTBAA
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