by Rodman follow (0)
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Why should I have any sympathy for the assholes who drove up housing prices to unaffordable levels by leveraging themselves when they thought they could flip the properties in a few years effectively being paid to rent a place?
These assholes should go to the back of the line for property ownership and stay there until everyone who didn't engage in the greed orgy of the housing bubble has bought and paid for their house.
Interesting article, “Americans facing post foreclosure hell…”
read entire article on link, or first few paragraphs below.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/14/us-usa-housing-foreclosures-insight-idUSKCN0I30BU20141014
(Reuters) – Many thousands of Americans who lost their homes in the housing bust, but have since begun to rebuild their finances, are suddenly facing a new foreclosure nightmare: debt collectors are chasing them down for the money they still owe by freezing their bank accounts, garnishing their wages and seizing their assets.
By now, banks have usually sold the houses. But the proceeds of those sales were often not enough to cover the amount of the loan, plus penalties, legal bills and fees. The two big government-controlled housing finance companies, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, as well as other mortgage players, are increasingly pressing borrowers to pay whatever they still owe on mortgages they defaulted on years ago.
Using a legal tool known as a “deficiency judgment,” lenders can ensure that borrowers are haunted by these zombie-like debts for years, and sometimes decades, to come. Before the housing bubble, banks often refrained from seeking deficiency judgments, which were seen as costly and an invitation for bad publicity. Some of the biggest banks still feel that way.
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