If you aren't smart enough to know that your rate, and payment, will go up with an ADJUSTABLE RATE MORTGAGE, you deserve to lose your fukin' house.
Retards.
dont worry, this is about a 6-10 year cycle that happens like clockwork. things will be back to normal in about 2 years.My concern with this is that I am one of the people who was responsible enough to say that "I cannot afford to spend 500,000 on a house in LA" and now I am essentially being punished for it. Due to saving the people who were irresponsible with their money it is going to slow the rate in which housing costs fall, thus forcing me to wait longer to buy a home, if at all. Since we can bail out irresponsible people how about the government covers my down payment? It's just frustrating to live in a time when a household making a six figure income cannot afford a home....
The mortgage lenders are essentially paying it. They made those loans with anticipation of certain profits from interest. The freeze is curtailing those profits significantly. I think it is a good option.i agree that there were tons of people who should have known better, but the lenders should have known better too... there really isnt anyone group of people you can point blame at in this situation (well, you can at the lenders for sucker punching hundreds of thousands of peole, but at the same time you have to point back at the hundreds of thousands of people for not stopping to think)
but more so, the lenders were flat out lying and decieving to the point where often times people were so mislead they didnt know what was going on. for instance, piggy backing ARM papers on top of fixed rate loan papers, and then discarding the fixed rate papers to lock the people into an adjustable rate mortgage that they didnt want...
something needed to be done, i dont know if this is the right answer. i think the lenders should be the one bailing people out, after all, they were the ones who were trying to make it rich in this scheme, and now its come back to bite them just as hard... why not make it hurt even more.
While this comment is true, a crash in the price of housing is not as pretty as you would think.My concern with this is that I am one of the people who was responsible enough to say that "I cannot afford to spend 500,000 on a house in LA" and now I am essentially being punished for it. Due to saving the people who were irresponsible with their money it is going to slow the rate in which housing costs fall, thus forcing me to wait longer to buy a home, if at all. Since we can bail out irresponsible people how about the government covers my down payment? It's just frustrating to live in a time when a household making a six figure income cannot afford a home....
Exactly.My concern with this is that I am one of the people who was responsible enough to say that "I cannot afford to spend 500,000 on a house in LA" and now I am essentially being punished for it. Due to saving the people who were irresponsible with their money it is going to slow the rate in which housing costs fall, thus forcing me to wait longer to buy a home, if at all. Since we can bail out irresponsible people how about the government covers my down payment? It's just frustrating to live in a time when a household making a six figure income cannot afford a home....
I wish housing prices would fall in a similar fashion as they fell. We'll see who needs a government bailout when you are standing in a god damn bread line.Exactly.
Another fine example of government helping the stupid, while fukkin' those who prepare.
If you are waiting for prices to fall even more, and are making six figures, you have got some other money management issues you may want to look at.My concern with this is that I am one of the people who was responsible enough to say that "I cannot afford to spend 500,000 on a house in LA" and now I am essentially being punished for it. Due to saving the people who were irresponsible with their money it is going to slow the rate in which housing costs fall, thus forcing me to wait longer to buy a home, if at all. Since we can bail out irresponsible people how about the government covers my down payment? It's just frustrating to live in a time when a household making a six figure income cannot afford a home....