September 25, 2009
Strategic default—walking away from your home and mortgage—is getting more common. The interesting part is who is doing it: according to a recent study, people with good credit. For such consumers, strategic default may be the best of a range of bad options.
The same study found that 588,000 people walked away from their mortgages in [...]
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September 30, 2008
The StarTribune did a good piece on two vunerable adults who were preyed upon by unscrupulous mortgage brokers and lenders. While this article is about two people who were legally classified as vunerable adults, the reality is that when it comes to understanding personal finance, especially the more complex issues involved in subprime loans, many [...]
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