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re: Is "walking away" from a mortgage wrong?

Posted on 10/11/12 at 9:01 am to
Posted by LSUAfro
Baton Rouge
Member since Aug 2005
12775 posts
Posted on 10/11/12 at 9:01 am to
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And what moral obligation would that be?

Seriously? In this mortgage environment? Ponder the other side of the coin and I'm sure you could figure out a few examples.
Posted by TheHiddenFlask
The Welsh red light district
Member since Jul 2008
18384 posts
Posted on 10/11/12 at 9:06 am to
When the bank lends me money at LIBOR, I will start feeling a moral obligation to repay.

Banks are just credit arbitrage machines. If you don't default, you are actually getting screwed, as you have subsidized the defaults of others.
Posted by Swifty
Member since May 2012
950 posts
Posted on 10/11/12 at 10:03 am to
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Seriously? In this mortgage environment? Ponder the other side of the coin and I'm sure you could figure out a few examples.



A mortgage is a loan, not some magical entitlement bestowed upon the masses by Jesus. Its an agreement to pay later what you could not pay now. The lender has a moral obligation to its stake holders, not to the borrower.

In most cases, people will live 6-12 months in a property pending forclosure withouth making a single payment. I'll suppose you would be of the opinion that the lender owed them that time... Grow up.
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