The sky is falling! The sky is falling! — Mortgage Version
June 16, 2008
OMG. Have you heard about the rates of mortgage foreclosures in the US? Foreclosures are up 50% or 100% or 200% depending on your source. Even at 50%, that’s huge. Right? The economy must be collapsing.
Or not.
The foreclosure rate is now 0.2%. Make sure that you pay attention to that little decimal point between the 0 and the 2. Yep. Two-tenths of one percent. And mortgage rates are up as well! Over 6%. OMG! Whatever will we do. Scott Ott has more.
I have a suggestion for people. Don’t buy houses with zero down mortgages amortized over 40 years with annual payments at the very upper limit of what you can afford.
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