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Why would anyone want to refinance a house that isn't worth what is owed...especially these days when it is actually cool to walk away from your mortgage.

You watch, Obama's program will use tax money to buy down the principal of low-income people. ("Everyone deserves the right to have a home")

1 posted on 09/19/2010 8:02:24 AM PDT by blam
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To: blam

“Momentun”? lulz.

More like more of idiots and idiocy...... =.=


2 posted on 09/19/2010 8:03:24 AM PDT by cranked
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However, the fine print is this...You are re-financing with The First last Bank of BOZ...so when the time comes for Universal Housing, they can throw you out and give your dwelling to the Party Faithful, while you go live in a one-room cell in a converted “Correctional Institution”


3 posted on 09/19/2010 8:06:29 AM PDT by Shady (We will NOT capitulate to the Caliphate.)
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However, the fine print is this...You are re-financing with The First Last Bank of BOZ...so when the time comes for Universal Housing, they can throw you out and give your dwelling to the Party Faithful, while you go live in a one-room cell in a converted “Correctional Institution”


4 posted on 09/19/2010 8:06:55 AM PDT by Shady (We will NOT capitulate to the Caliphate.)
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I lost 170K in equity. Lost my 20% down payment. And I am still paying for this POS house. They bail them out, and I will still have to pay plus the 10k a year in taxes. I have the means to pay!! They do this, and I will walk away. I bet a lot of people in my situation will do the same.


6 posted on 09/19/2010 8:09:06 AM PDT by lookout88 (.combat officer's dad,)
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If you have a mortgage, your not a ‘homeowner’.


8 posted on 09/19/2010 8:16:19 AM PDT by Palter (If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it. ~ Mark Twain)
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“You watch, Obama’s program will use tax money to buy down the principal of low-income people. (”Everyone deserves the right to have a home”)”

...absolutely!!! and as we all know, the “right” to own a home was what got us into this mess to begin with...and BTW, the reason some homes are underwater is because property values have been run down by riff raff moving in the neighborhood....time was, people like that NEVER would have gotten a loan.


9 posted on 09/19/2010 8:16:24 AM PDT by STONEWALLS
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Problem. There is no tax money. It is all already spent and then some. They are spending a Trillion Dollars a year more than they get. Amazing.


10 posted on 09/19/2010 8:17:10 AM PDT by screaminsunshine (counter revolutionary)
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Any time you see a newspaper reporting that an inanimate object is taking action, it's time to haul out the Crap Detector. Momentum does not "gather." Calls do not "grow." Momentum only increases when an outside force — such as a reporter with an agenda — is applied. In newspaper parlance, calls "grow" when reporters collude on mailing lists like Journolist to write articles and columns selling the same line. Then they all quote each other and pretend that something spontaneous has happened, with the "calls" growing all by themselves.

This article is one more reason not to trust Business Insider. These kinds of journalistic tricks are indicative of Leftists At Work.


14 posted on 09/19/2010 8:26:53 AM PDT by Nick Danger (Pin the fail on the donkey)
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Yeah..that way the Feds will buy you out...and relocate you when you can't pay THAT overvalued mortgage.

This is simply a way of harvesting all those poorly documented securitized mortgages the courts are throwing out...essentially “giving” the house to its owners.

20 posted on 09/19/2010 8:37:17 AM PDT by mo
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No principle reduction?

So who in their right mind would refinance a $150K loan on a property worth $90K?

Oh wait- THE GOVT!


22 posted on 09/19/2010 8:41:31 AM PDT by silverleaf (The lesser of two evils is still evil.)
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Let me get this straight: The problem is that housing prices were vastly inflated by granting mortgages to people who were unlikely to pay them back, and the solution is to further inflate the prices by subsidizing the mortgages of those very people?.

The only "sustainable" solution is to allow housing prices to fall to realistic levels, but we can't let the market do something that the federal government can screw up some more.

23 posted on 09/19/2010 8:47:48 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The only stable state is one in which all men are equal before the law." -- Aristotle)
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I have a lasting solution.

Let the government buy me a house and put the deed in my name.

Since I'll have no mortgage, the government won't ever have to worry about me defaulting on my mortgage.

I'll never again be a default risk to the banks or to government.

24 posted on 09/19/2010 8:57:58 AM PDT by NoControllingLegalAuthority (What this country needs is an enema.)
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I’m to the point where I say DO IT.
Crash this economy in one big supernova.

I’m tired of this piecemeal crashing.


26 posted on 09/19/2010 9:07:27 AM PDT by Lorianne (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. ___ George Orwell)
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"...where former Bush advisor (and now Columbia business prof) Glenn Hubbard..."

Why is it that everything is "Bush's Fault" and yet when they want some pundit to have credibility they point out the "former advisor to Bush" crap?

The left just makes no sense on any level.

27 posted on 09/19/2010 9:08:21 AM PDT by Thom Pain (2 + 2 = 4 : Defending the Constitution is CENTRIST; not RIGHT WING! Don't be labeled!)
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...our guess is that this won't require any Congressional approval

Guess again.

31 posted on 09/19/2010 10:07:50 AM PDT by mojito
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