Mortgage Crisis is an Overdue Housecleaning
Please go read this excellent article in the North Country Times on the current mortgage problems out there. Phil Strickland nails it.
Mostly it is an overdue housecleaning. Of the number of mortgages in default, one financial “seer” observed that if you look at it from the other end, you see that 98 percent of them are being paid. That doesn’t help the 2 percent who got in over their heads with loans everyone should have known couldn’t be paid, but, brutal as it is, the market is taking care of that.
Locally, we see foreclosures climbing yet again, no doubt with some aid from properties now moving through the process that appear to have been part of a fraudulent real-estate investment scheme. Sure, those foreclosures hurt too, but their impact results from what appears to have been a scam, not some inherent weakness in the local market.
Read the rest at The Californian / North County Times
I like your analogy in this article. The real estate economy really is like a patient who you cannot ...
Real Estate is hyper-local. Every market is different. Phoenix has already hit bottom and is starting to recover. We have ...
Great to hear that the big boys
are predicting recovery sooner than
most think.
Thanks for the value! 
I agree--good analogy. You have to crawl before you can walk. Right now, at least in Austin, many people would ...
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I see the question I have, but no response. I do not have a for sale sign up ...
I'll add mine to the list too. This is happening in Kansas City, Missouri as well now.
We already knew ...
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Comment by Mark on 1 June 2008:
One way to jump start the mortgage industry is to make your house cheaper to sell by selling it yourself. For example, a typical 6% commission on a $400,000 house is $24,000. Wouldn’t you rather that $24,000 be in YOUR pocket after the sale? These days there are tons of free FSBO sites just for this purpose. A good example of this is http://www.primefsbolistings.com where you can list your house for free through the end of 2008. Some sites like these exist only to give the RE business a kick in the pants. The only problem is that we are coming off a huge bubble. The only REAL fix…time and realistic pricing that reflects raises over the past few years.