Strategic Default and Walk Away from that Albatross of a Mortgage – Strategic Default increased by 68 Times from 2005 to 2008 in California. The Economic Psychology of Walking Away and is a 200 Point Drop in Your Credit Score Worth Holding Onto a Property?
As the stigma wears away and more Americans find themselves with unmanageable housing payments, many are making the conscious decision to walk away from their mortgage. What occurs in a walk away, as opposed to a standard foreclosure, is the borrower is making a business decision to stop making their housing payment. Now this compares [...]
The 5 Percent Solution: How 5 Percent of the Workforce Generated 40 Percent of U.S. Business Profits and all of it was a Ponzi Scheme.
From 1948 to the early 1980s the financial industry in the U.S. generated from 5 to 15 percent of all U.S. business profits. In the early 1980s this started to creep higher and higher. It reached a triumphant climax generating over 40 percent of all U.S. profits at the height of our financial bubble. The [...]
The New Mortgage Dynamics and the Anatomy of a Pay Option ARM Borrower. 850,000 Option ARMs Still Outstanding and 40 Percent in Distress. 4 Reasons to Walk Away from your Option ARM.
It is hard to believe that 13 percent of all mortgages are either in foreclosure or some other form of distress. This can stem from a missed payment from an unexpected job loss or mounting pressure of servicing current debt. To a large degree the allure of the option ARM product came from the ability [...]