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Originally Posted by Sharroll Celby
Did the interest rates on the "teaser" rates HAVE to climb so drastically? Why did they not climb to the going rate, now about 6 percent?
I would figure the lenders would rather have SOME of the mortgage being paid back, as opposed to NONE of the mortgage being paid back when people walk away.
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That's the chance they took when getting an ARM. I locked both my houses at 5% for the life of the loan in 02, and I was told by my friend who is a motgage broker that I was stupid. He kept telling me "I can get you 3.5 on an ARM". I told him to get back to me in five years and we would see who was right. I guess you know the answer to that.
The people that gambled with an ARM need to take responsibility for their actions and stop crying. If you got into a risky loan, bought a house you could not afford etc, then you need to lose the house. The market needs to correct on it's own, and forclosures are part of the cure. My.02
Between the stock market and a bad business venture I lost well over a million dollars in the past few years, and I am not looking to the government to bail me out.