PensiveGargoyle ([info]pensivegargoyle) wrote,
@ 2006-10-19 16:37:00
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(singing) Schadenfreude, schadenfreude, schadenfreude schnitzelbank!
I love it when someone with a get-rich-quick scheme fails miserably. It's even better when they create a blog about it so that everyone knows.


From October 2005 to May 2006 I bought 8 houses in 4 different states, mostly with the help of 100% stated income loans (liar loans). Most are fixers - I was going to rehab and flip each one within a month or so. Buying was easy, but man was I in for a surprise (or a lesson?)


http://iamfacingforeclosure.com/1/why-i-am-facing-foreclosure/

Of course, I don't quite get how he'd be allowed to get mortgages on 8 properties, but I suppose banks can be stupid like anyone else.



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[info]thickslab
2006-10-19 11:28 pm UTC (link)
You'd be surprised. The housing market is so insane in the US that people with *bad credit* were getting variable rate mortgages with no down payment at all, then getting lines of credit using the house as collateral.

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[info]pensivegargoyle
2006-10-19 11:48 pm UTC (link)
Reading more into this I was shocked to discover that banks in the US will give mortgages just based on what you *say* your income is, without requiring proof of it. How screwed up is that?

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[info]huskarl
2006-10-22 06:01 pm UTC (link)
the so-called "liar loans" were introduced for credit-worthy professionals that had obviously successful businesses (or practices), but didn't want to reveal all their papers.

Now, of course, it's an object of abuse.

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[info]huskarl
2006-10-22 06:03 pm UTC (link)
the 'investor' is a 24-year old tool.

He has no business being married at that age either, he obviously hasn't learned not to take someone else's life down with his own.

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