Posted on 09/26/2010 7:41:50 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Unless you lost your job or your job required you to move. Guess those people are bums, though.
That way, new connections in that walnut sized mass between your ears may be made, thus leading to a New Life of Enlightenment for you!
Ta-ta, I'm off with my cup of coffee, my kid and my wife to luxuriate in the beautiful view of the fog over Capitola out my front window, have a nice Sunday....
There are people who have defaulted on their mortgages, who are quite able to foot the bill but choose not to do so, in the full knowledge that banks are being very slow to foreclose and evict ... hey, more free money! Live rent free in a great house for a year or more! That the house has negative equity is a further perverse incentive.
If they are working and the foreclosure is the only black mark on their credit they will have no trouble finding rentals. In fact the investor who buys their foreclosed home would probably love to have them as tenents.
Your wrong... Interest is paid to them for the risk they are accepting.
Yes, but (I’m a landlord too, but am new to it) if a prospective tenant is brave enough to start ignoring a big scary bank, what’s to keep him from ignoring me, a brand-new “small and meek” landlord?
I decided someone who just decides one day to NOT PAY THE MORTGAGE will just as easily decide one day to NOT PAY THE RENT.
So I went with someone else, with just as good a job, but safer and with great credit.
But you’re right; these two were *far* better than the next set of tenants that came behind them in my rankings. What a nightmare some people are. Someone actually wanted to move in with 8 dogs!
OK, so I was right. Those people are scumbags who deserve to be homeless, so long as they crawl past your front door so you can laugh at them, declaring your superiority over them.
That doesn’t strike me as particularly helpful, but to each his own.
Morality in business? A contract has terms, including penalties. That’s called making a deal. If you incur penalties, you haven’t broken any moral code. You’ve incurred penalties that were part of the agreement. A bank knows their is risk of default in a mortgage loan. I am sure they charge enough to cover the risk. A person should do what is in their best interests, as long as it’s legal.
- Shoplifting
- Robbing a gas station
Ditto.
Ratigan was pushing this disgusting idea a couple of months ago.
True. My wife and I just now finally did our first refi. We shaved a couple points off our loan, and we'll continue to make the same payment we were making before. The house was appraised something like 80K above what we paid 8 years ago, and we haven't borrowed a dime against that unrealized , theoretical equity. And we love our home!
Except those are illegal acts, whereas walking away from a mortgage is not. Pretty significant difference, I would think.
Why do you think that the mortgage company considers your home as collateral and can repossess it if you can’t make the payments? A person has no control over what may happen in the future. You could lose your job, get in a disabilitating accident, etc. Get off your moral high horse. We have 25 million Americans looking for full time employment. 40 million are on food stamps.
Immorality on parade. Promoted by the left as a way to ‘punish’ the banks who made loans.
You signed a contract to borrow X dollars from the bank and pay it off over a period of time. If you "walk away" from that and don't pay the bank back, the bank will see to it that your credit rating will reflect that you don't pay your obligations. No one will loan you money for a very long time. You may even have a hard time renting an apartment like the genius author of this article says you should do.
You're absolutely right. Usually, we're talking about legal and not moral obligations.
For just that reason, I won't lend money to home purchasers or people who want to refinance without requiring more than just signatures on notes, deeds of trust or mortgages. I insist that borrowers also sign a Covenant With God and pledge their Immortal Soul as part of the deal. If the borrower balks, then he's going home without any money. I have no sympathy for the banks or lenders who made their loans without the proper Covenant.
Seven years, most likely. Ten max.
lol...ah, the old Immortal Soul clause. Pretty iron-clad, I’m told.
The average dummy is probably on the hook for 3 grand or more in mortgage. If they had 1500 in mortgage they’d ride it out.
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