Tag Archives: strategic default

Strategic default is moral imperative to prevent future housing bubbles

Underwater loan owners with payments exceeding rent have a moral imperitive to strategically default to provide deterence for banks to inflate future housing bubbles. Continue reading

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One in Eight Nevada Homes Empty

Nevada has a great many empty homes, and after my experiences flipping occupied properties, I will be happily focused on the empty ones. Continue reading

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Jon Stewart on The Mortgage Bankers’ Association’s Ironic Strategic Default

Oh, the hypocrisy!

The Mortgage Bankers’ Association strategically defaulted on their Washington DC office building and rented another space just 5 blocks away. Continue reading

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Australia Learns Nothing From US Housing Bust

In the US banks loosened lending standards and kept right on doing it until the whole mad scheme blew up. Australian banks are now making the same mistake.
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Biggest defaulters on mortgages are the rich

 The New York Times reports that the housing bust that began among the working class in remote subdivisions and quickly progressed to the suburban middle class is striking the upper class in privileged enclaves. Wealthier Americans are stopping to pay … Continue reading

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