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  • Hopefully Americans finally will be forced to LIVE FOREVER WITHIN OR BELOW THEIR MEANS! If means eating cat food and living in a box under a bridge, so be it.

    @ 1:25 these motherfawking idiots were not "steered" the wrong way...you bought into this housing lie. Hook, line, and sinker. Sit on the bottom until you crawl out from your cardboard box, finally admitting you were idiots to ever believe housing  prices never would fall.

  • you got no money you have no rights to the property. That last lady was completely wrong. you make your payments or loose the property and someone else will be happy to take it from your hands at 50% less the price you paid.

  • This had to happen. Housing prices are way too high. It's going to get worse.

  • its a tough market out there this site really helped me as realtor..... myepicbiz com

  • its a tough market for a realtor right now this link helped me through it all

    myepicbiz com

  • Find those homes at

    forecloseddealz.cogia.net with the new lower price

  • yeah, the current housing market is crap, unfortunately. the only way to go, in my opinion, is through a real estate investor that pays cash. one of my friends sold their house through the investor site wellbuyit(dot)net . she got a fairly decent offer, too!

  • S. Florida looks like this now. I am losing 5 people on my street.

  • This is your right? Uneducated cleaning lady says she has a right to live in a half a million dollar house...lol. Why does everyone blame the bank and these people have no accountability? I was recently LITERALLY talking to someone that said they could not afford their house and we going to "walk away" and in the same breathe said his Porsche was in the shop.

  • @ellaelizabeth that is being americain for you!! everyone is a big shot and when things go bad blame the banks and your president!!

  • Is there an irony that the guy doing the auction is doing it in front of a trash can?

  • Government, Banks and the Realtor Cartel will want to reinflate the housing bubble again as quickly as possible.

  • perfect lesson as to why to never do a lease option.

  • Renting is sweet. Wait to buy until you are confident that you are going to be in the same spot for 15 years, put AT LEAST 20% down, get a 15 year fixed rate mortgage, and payments shouldn't exceed 25% of your TAKE HOME pay.

  • that lady in the begginign looked like carmen electra!

  • I make $12 an hour.  My wife makes $18 an hour. We have 5 kids...and we just bought a $300k home.

    Is it the Bank or the uneducated buyer? Yeah, let's blame someone ells for our poor judgement!!!!

  • I hear ya Joey. It's the banks and the buyers fault. The banks wanted the commision and the buyers wanted to make an investment. The buyers didn't research the housing market and the banks didn't care if the buyers lied about their income or job title.

  • @joey1127

    Blame the banks too, who are supposed to be prudent in their loans. Now the taxpayer has to bail out the banks, so don't blame just the homeowner. Its ridiculous to claim that a homeowner "tricked" a loan officer.

  • @joey1127 damn you sure got suckered into the scam of the housing market. I make 60k a year and a single guy. I bought a house for 100k dollars. it is little but it is mine and no risk of loosing it. It is a 3 bedroom home so technically it is big enough for a small family . Well wish you luck hope things improve for you

  • It's unbelievable the decline in property values we see across the country each day. It will be years before this market recovers, and that's if you redefine recover! It's a buyers market though if you plan to hang on.

  • We need 30 year fixed rate mortgages to be 2.5 % or less to survive this crisis. Fix Housing First.

  • Whoa, how would a bank or a mortgage holder allow a lease to own contract?? There's something really fishing going on there.

  • then of course people dont pay their tax on the house they walked away from, renters dont pay that tax. So an empty house no one wants just sits their. I knew CA was screwed a few years ago when I looked at a little shit box house that was 400,000 in a bad area with bars on the windows and gang type mexicans living next door.

  • I think we looked at the same house!

  • That's when you burn the motherfucker down, and let the state clean the shit up.

  • So staying at home living with your mother is not  so bad after all eh? hahahahhahaha

  • heh yesterday i and my sister buy two house in Kodiak AK 250k usd for each is great place for summer vacation,but for living beter Europe

  • "Real estate never goes down" is a lie but the words themselves make it a double lie because they obscure what is really going on. Real estate is improvements and land. Improvements, i.e. houses, don't go up in value because they depreciate and their supply is constantly increased by builders keeping cost/price stable. It is land value that goes up because its supply is fixed. It is land value that is bid up sky high and comes down in periodic "real estate" booms and busts in an 18 year cycle.

  • Supply being fixed does make the asset go up in value all the time. If demand decreases (e.g. if fewer people have babies and population declines) then land prices will go down.

  • With all the Catholics...I don't see that happening.

    Oh how I wish the population would decrease!

  • Realtors participate in the scam.  They stress "comps" when valuing a house, and then manipulate the comps prices.

  • The buyers are at fault too since they expected their house prices will always go up.  I talked to people who bought their houses back in 2005, 2006 since they believed that it was their best chance because housing prices never goes down.

  • Ironically, I paid cash for my house or rather,'project' and paid in full, but with the increase expense of construction supplies, gas, hydro, taxes, fees etc. from all the hoopla created by the housing boom, I ended up selling anyways -It just wasn't worth the time and money in the long term

  • fuck you, the real estate is going down asshole. NATION-WIDE

  • Take a step back and lighten up! Only those who do not have the real facts throw insults. As a Real Estate Professional I know this market intimately with 10 years experience and I can confidently tell you Real Estate is local and now is a great time to buy! And depending on your area, once again now is an absoltely perfect time, probably the best time to buy a house. For residence or for investment you can never go wrong with Real Estate. It is the ultimate fail proof way to build wealth.

  • This is not true. Value is down all over. Appreciation for the previous years, start of the bubble 14 to 20%. Now it is burst, along with it, easy credit that caused it. It could be a long time before you get what you paid for your house. Your house WON'T appreciate like it had, because the easy credit is not there

    If you are in a long foreclosure state, pocket the money until they evict you then go buy a house the same as the one you left for half the price.....in 5 years after this is over.

  • Isn't this what real estate people were saying in 2006?

  • If your in one of those areas where prices have declined 40 to 50%, and appreciation goes back to historical rates before the bubble, you can expect to only appreciate 2 to4% a year. It will take a long time, more then most people stay in one house to recoup.

    Don't listen to real estate agents. They are dopes. They know little about the market. Most only know how to list a house. Besides, 10 years is not ling at all, especially if the last 6 to 7 were in this bubble market.

  • Thanks. You are correct. Please continue dispelling the lies of the realthores.

    Here's one more tidbit:

    Housing prices over time appreciate about 0.3% ahead of inflation which is essentially nothing. Just something to think about when making an "investment" in real estate. You get a better deal if you put your money in a bank money market fund.

  • unless you get a place in an area where it would be easy to rent. ie. hospitals, universities, large business areas.

  • look who the neighbors would be. No wonder.

  • Racist.

  • And a lease to own is not a suckers bet. I have done tons of them over the last 10 years and almost all worked out just fine. If anything, the landlord is usually the one that gets screwed.

  • shoot. I live in Upstate NY and I have 3 across the street from me in foreclosure. All happened in the last 6-months. Empty with no buyers.

  • I'm surprised that American realtors and home owners nationwide haven't started a national protest movement to burn all the bank-owned foreclosure properties....

    1)

    it would drastically improve the housing market and

    2)

    they would actually get something for their tax money being confiscated by Congress to pay off the distressed banks who hold the titles. How many house titles has the Fed (they caused the bubble with too low interest rates)received from distressed banks as collateral?

  • Next stop - Vancouver, Canada

  • It's a shame for that Mustang at 3:23. Looks like a 5.0 car.

  • Welcome to the FAILED Bush Economy. More than half of you voted him in for a 2nd term. NOW DEAL WITH IT.

  • WHEN you have a lot of people on the streets ... THEY will go to WALL STREET and fuck them up ... and WASHINGTON too ..

  • It wouldn't be 50% off. It should be 70% off !!!

  • because of peoples stupidity they are f..n

    in up for the rest of us

  • I'za leaneded ta fights back. I'za doan knows wha ta' do lawdy lawdy da whites mans gotsta GO! YO YO YO

  • Greed is a policy that was created by democracy

  • Idiots who drove up prices and bought at the peak should be lined up, forced to knell, and shot in the back of the head by death squads. 88!

  • silly nigg er you have no rights to the home. L o L

  • Goes to show that the homes were sold to anyone willing to sign.

  • I LOVE THIS VIDEO.ARTHUR ROBINSON

  • families just trying to get by? If you are trying to get by, you don't sign a giant mortgage.

  • Banks and Insurance businesses are to blame. Along with the WTO that has taken our manufacturing base and the crooked politicians that continue to syphon the Americans from any and all wealth. Even before it is made.

  • OK, I'm in CO and there are lots of white people going into foreclosure, what's their excuse you retarded racist.

  • Thank you!Very persuasive!Indeed it's all about basic algebra (Youtube:exponential growth) and the psychological threshold of 1M US$(Google:Money as debt).5% growth of salary/year means double salary in 10y not 50% (1.05 power 10).If you can afford to pay 4000$/month now for a 700K home (NO INCENTIVES) cutting let's say 66% of your net income(still remaining with 2k) in 10 years will be 40%(remain 6k to spend)in 20 years will be 24%(12k to spend),in 30 years is nothing!+Waiting is pay more rent!

  • Thats the problem in voting to Obama, you criticise him you become racist. can you imgaine any videos criticising obama as it is of bush. This is the stae of vicitimhood mindset.

  • Real estate prices are supposed to reflect building costs and population. And according to H.S. Dent that hasn't been the case since the mid to late 90's. So it might plunge back to early 90's prices before going up again.

    Around here that's about 300k for houses that sold for 500k or more. I couldn't imagine making monthly payments to lose 200k all while being stuck in one place.

  • Over the past few years housing costs have come to reflect greed, opportunism, foolishness, and shameless profiteering.

  • You nailed it. Those 4 phrases encompass every inch of the problem.

  • People treat some bricks like stocks in companies, result : crash.

  • No matter who you are or how good your intentions are, what goes up must come down. Gravity applies to us all.

  • OMG rights to own a home that you couldn't afford to buy in the first place ROFL!!!!

    OMG I"M REALLY LOLing!!!

    what a "black person" how can you compare racism rights to property rights. the only reason u got the home was because you speculated that the value of it would rise.

    I wanna smack the nigga outta her.

  • Elk Grove is a ghost town. The bank sold homes to so many black people and took their money just to put them out. Slavery and racism is alive and well in Sacramento, Ca. My suggestion to anyone thinking of moving to California: DON'T DO IT!

  • It has nothing to do with race.

    "The man" isn't giving sub-prime, adjustable rate loans to blacks because they're black. People get these loans because they are a high risk (bad credit history), so the bank knows there will be a default, and they can then re-sell the house at auction for even more profit.

  • The man was giving credit to any race. Dont make it anything other than what it is.

  • Oh so now blacks are too dumb to know how to invest? I'm pretty sure there are just as many Persian, Chinese, and, Mexican and dutch/Irish homeowners shitting themselves over the mess they got THEMSELVES into as any other group.

    Go buy a book.

  • to stop foreclosure is stop being greedy and create a good culture

  • well done

  • steak time

  • The word greed describes nothing unless defined or else it applies to everything and nothing. It is shame and guilt mongering by those of us whose economic education has been stunted which is most of us thanks to the big guys, their schools and their professors whose jobs depend on talking the party line.

    The definition of greed is the pursuit of and getting of something for nothing. In the housing/real estate game it is speculating land the value of land which is created by the community.

  • There is a way to stop foreclosures, just ask me

  • how? lol

  • i can definately appreciate houses going down after a major run up in prices, but also scanning the realtor pages for this ca zip code i saw many new homes/and town houses at good prices, why are some homes built in 2004, 2005, 2003 etc. selling for about the same as some homes built in 1970, i see some inconsistencies, are these new neighborhoods in declining areas, was the construction horrible,

  • If the owners of a foreclosure home worth $500,000 is seized by the bank because the owners default on $100,000 remaining, does that mean I only have to pay $100,000 and the $500,000 home becomes mine 100% legally?

  • no, only if you buy directly from the original homeowner before the foreclosure process takes place. but if you sell the house for a huge profit, be warned that the original homeowner can sue you for at least part of your profit.

  • Real state never goes down, true. is the dollar the one that devalue the real value of a dollar is 4 cents it has more value in paper and ink than the baying power. See outside the borders

    everyone is turning to euros.

  • True, real estate is a long term investment.

    short term speculators and risk takers can get fucked in any marketplace.

    Always make sure you can afford payments if they go up, always look to the long term, and history shows you will always make money in the long run.

    The key word is "default" on loans.

    The second little key is "4 years"

  • Real Estate is not stock, you cant buy property and expect it to appreciate within 2 or three months. People also need to take a look at what kind of mortgage they are getting themselves into. As an agent I always go over everything (my contracts and the banks) with my clients so that they understand that "Yes, if the market takes a slight turn, your payments may go up" I do my best to watch out for my clients but people also need to do a little research themselves.

  • Are bricks in the US of states $5,000 each?

  • A few years ago I saw a tiny little house--a cottage, really--in a Sacramento suburb that was selling for $500,000. Half a million. What kind of moron would pay that kind of money, especially when real estate prices have doubled or tripled in the last ten years?

  • the market has definetly made it's adjustments

  • If you buy now, you will find a house like the one you bought for $100K or more less than what you paid. You effectively will be catching a falling knife and become instantly underwater on your mortgage! Imagine going to the bank and asking, "I'd like to open an account for minus (-)$100K". After years of deposits adding up to $100K you will have $0 in the account. Silly isn't it? Well that is exactly what you will be doing if you bought a house right now. Maybe a little more dont buy

  • americas motto should be ''leave the weak and poor behind''

  • We don't leave anyone behind. America is the land of opportunity. Donald Trump went bankrupt a couple times and bounced back.

    If anyone needs help avoiding a foreclosure I can help them. No cost foreclosure advice/help. Christian Owned company too - another American motto - In GOD we trust!

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  • looked like it was pretty bad there anyone see the car on blocks LOL

  • Bad Realators taking advantage. I sent my daughter to school.

    By the time the buyer figured it out, it was toooooo late.

    myspace/parkslandinvestments.

  • Half the agents out there are not even Realtors. The blame has to be spread even. How many people honestly read any contract in full. I know that most people sign where they are told to sign. Poor judgment, bad agents, greedy builders and lenders, the list could go on. People that walk away from homes typically shouldn't have owned them in the first place. Don't blame the Realtors lets take a little responsibility for our actions.

  • You'd need a degree in business and real estate law (and well over 20 hours) to go over all those forms and understand them. No normal person could understand those forms even if they took days to read them. I bought my home 9 years ago, fixed at 5.5% thank goodness, but no way could I read or understand all that legalese. I did know a few things going in though. The biggest was that I wouldn't tolerate an ARM loan and opted for a higher fixed rate rather than take the gamble.

  • Hire an attorney if you don't understand the paperwork.

  • stevenjacobsrealtor - ". Don't blame the Realtors lets take a little responsibility for our actions." Oh come on pal,you people really don't have a fucking clue do you? When the fuck are we going to put the blame where it should be?How about starting with all these trade agreements and the fact that jobs have been shipped out of the US

  • I dont think I was putting the blame on anybody not even Bush want it Pres Clinton who signed NAFTA with Mexico?that how we ended up where we are today.I live in C.A im a carpenter I seen what an endless supply of cheap labor does.

  • stillnailing - Correct,Bill Clinton put the NAFTA through,but George Bush has been expanding on that with WTO along with a few other trade agreements,What these agreements do is(allow corporations to shit can the workers here in the US and exploit 3rd world labor..As you should know China has our manufacturing jobs right now

  • You might be wright I just don't think there is a big difference between the rep and the Dem's when it comes to money.both parties have sold out and the American people pay the check.Both are for big business

  • stillnailing - "You might be wright I just don't think there is a big difference between the rep and the Dem's when it comes to money.both parties have sold out and the American people pay the check.Both are for big business" Bingo!! I believe you have the picture...These clowns need to be shit canned and made responsible for their actions

  • I think you and I have been on the same page all along its just to bad more people don't open there eyes and stop letting them self's get so easily.

  • The goverment needs to CAP the price of homes.

    Homes cost to much, and people don't make enough.

  • A free market is much more efficient. Look what government programs did to health care. Don't worry, housing will be very affordable in a few years.

  • I have to agree housing will be realistic soon enough. Anyone who thought houses could keep going up is a moron. Someone has to make enough to buy them....makes sense now huh.

  • your right about that man i was lucky to find a 3 bed room for 95k got it in 2002 and it was bult in 1997

  • people just need to be more realistic

  • By the way: Lease Options help people who cant qualify for a bank loan today, get into the house anyway with a down payment, while there payments go toward the purchase of the house like when you rent to own. the difference between lease option and rent to own is I believe how serious the person is about buying the house. One pays between 5 and 20 grand the other pays fisrt last and security.

  • realestate never goes down? look at the history of realestate,U must be misinformed. which makes your information about the lease option less credible.& the bank bending there clients over,is that suppose to be new news. it is sad,whats more sad is the financial choices people without much money make. they obviously got an ARM Loan so they could get a low APR on the front but what about after a year,duh. like they had no clue that was going 2 happen. people and there lines of credit,sheeesh!

  • dont think we have a socialist government? HA! the real government is the board of the federal reserve, and they are god...they giveth, and they taketh awayeth!

    housing did not drop, your money did!

  • This is a very informative video,everyone should watch this to know what is going on with the housing market.

  • Saps...but this was predicted 2 years ago. Greenspan's cheap credit bubble is designed to smash the middle class. Next bubble is credit cards..then it curtains for America. You'll all be living in FEMA camps and the bankruptcy laws will keep you there.

  • i feel bad but thats how banks fuck you guys .... just save alot of money guys.... dont let those banks hold you buy your balls

  • haha my dad paid his house off in like 4 years and our house is bigger then all of these houses shown.

  • bahahahaha, this is fucking hilarious.

    "When you save a lot of money, you don't expect to lose it."

    A fool and their money...

  • Gee, and none of the "experts" saw it coming...

  • just 3 years ago i remember an average house was on the 75 to 90 thousands and now they want 500,000, thats is insane.

  • have owned their homes ? If you have mortgage you do not own your Home , Home owns you .Mortgage means Death Grip .

  • Bwahahaha!

  • Well cry me a river!

  • Shit i'll buy a house out there! Fuck Greenspan! He fucked EVERYONE! Why is it all black people? America loves to Fuck over it's citizens man.

  • Simple arithmetic: ADD financially dumb young people, ADD predatory e-loan fuckers that advertise 24x7 on TV, hawking ARMs,30 yr loans, and 2nd mortgages like they are candy, ADD a leveling-off of salaries, ADD higher interest rates, and the RESULT is DISASTER. If parents had done their job, educated their dumb young kids about loans, interest rates, and 30 year mortgages, they could have easily ignored the eloan sharks, but it didnt happen.

  • Interest rate as it applies to the loan taken out. Thats what screwed alot of folks. This is a disaster...I live in California and went to a subdivision where I was considering...then reexamined the situation...and am just going to keep the fixer upper Med style home I have now.

  • Gray Davis? High energy prices. Arnold Schwarzenegger?

  • Imagine going to the bank and asking, "I'd like to open an account for minus (-)$100K". After years of deposits adding up to $100K you will have $0 in the account. Silly isn't it? Well that is exactly what you will be doing if you bought a house right now. Maybe a little more, or a little less, but either way doesn't sound too good does it? DONT BUY REAL ESTATE BE SMART

  • screw economic growth, economic growth is what causes housing inflation, and inflation is what causes homelessness and poverty!

  • To Bad loans had so much low initial investement requirement ! WOOT for canada, sry we have more less mininum cash down for are houses.

  • Its not that sad. Me and my famly looked into a mortgage and came to the conclusion we can not afford these prices sooo we never had a chance at a nice house we stayed right here in the inner city with all the crime and bullshit noisy traffic. In the meantime everyone lent and borrowed what they should not have witch fucked things up for the average joe.. .. and I say GOOD!! you all get what you deserve . prices have to come down a lot more..

  • As creditors become more conservative, they slow their lending. As debtors and potential debtors become more conservative, they borrow less or not at all. These behaviors reduce the "velocity" of money, i.e., the speed with which it circulates to make purchases, thus putting downside pressure on prices. These forces reverse the former trend." - Bob Prechter, Conquer the Crash

  • This is exactly what I have been predicting! How can a 3 bed 2 bath home in So. Cal that was worth $250,000 in 1996 be worth $900,000 in 2006?? It just doesnt add up! There has to be a major correction with a family of young professionals making well over $100,000 a year can't afford to buy a home within 40 miles of thier job due to inflated home prices!!

  • Is it too late for tax payers to ask for their money back? for the money spent on educating people....

  • Joke: How can you tell a real estate agent is lying?

    Answer: Their lips are moving!

  • This is nuts. A house is always worth what it would cost to replace it ($ per sq ft cost). If you get for less you get INSTANT gain on paper. With properties like this one going on the market and getting NO bidders (ZERO) indicates to me that the buyers (multiple investors) are happy to wait a few more months to find the bottom before buying at BARGAIN prices.

  • But what if a house is only worth $10K to replace? That value can change as well. Families can consolidate households, multiple people can sell their homes and co-op a residence, etc etc

  • a house that COSTS $10K to replace must be a very small shack. I don't know specifically what the cost per sq metre is in the US, but here (in NZ) the cost of materials (cement, steel, wood, brick and all the internal fittings) are rising still, along with the cost of skilled labour and compliance costs (local authority charges for permits, resource consent, reserve contributions etc etc) have doubled over the last 5 years. .

  • But the house is old and therefore the materials have depreciated in value significantly due to age.

  • If a 12 year old structure is considered "old" in the American market, then it's all too bad for you guys. Besides, depreciation is an accounting function that does not actually affect the price a buyer is prepared to pay for it.

  • If I built a structure in a shitty area, it wouldn't be worth the materials it took to build it because the materials would have to be separated from the structure and relocated to a habitable neighborhood.

  • Your argument is becoming increasingly narrow, even bizarre. Certainly, my residence is not in a "shitty" area...something that's hard to find in NZ. I've lived in the US so I know what you mean by the term, though. Is the property featured in the video in a "shitty" area?

  • It's "blackened", if you know what I mean. That makes it less valuable. America is more racist than other countries, so this (un)forunately means something, usually negative. You'd have to eliminate the blacks in order to recoup value.

  • Oh, yeah - I guessed that, but there's also the "white trash" areas, aren't there? It's a sad state of affairs, all over. And combined with the broader macro "market forces" etc...

  • I am simply being objective in asserting that a house isn't even worth the building materials if it's in a heavily black or otherwise "shitty" neighborhood, since you'd have to transport the material to a safer, whiter neighborhood. Of course oreos and white trash are the exceptions to both classes.

  • "Oreos"? I know about the biscuit, but how did this become a demographic?

  • oreo = black man on the outside, white man on the inside. Basically what differentiates a black man from a nigger, negro, negroid (like humanoid)

  • oh...I have a friend in Phila who might be described as such - gets a white band under his watch strap in the summer? Is thta what you mean?

  • No. In order to be a negro, his soul has to be black. He has to enjoy delicacies such as chicken necks, fried chicken, watermelon, and grape soda on a regular basis.

  • do you consider yourself a racist?

  • Not really.  I only go by observations drawn from empirical analysis. Negroes consume more of the aforementioned foods than white people do, they bring property values down, and they smell bad.

  • I was based in Phildelphia when I lived there (1989), and travelled right around over a period of 12 months. Where do you live?

  • I used to be around that area actually. Now I'm in NC. Used to be a librul too, but then I grew up.

  • What in the hell...? Quit breathing the oxygen on my planet, you waste of skin!

    That woman was not very versed on what a 'lease' is. She does not have a 'right' to a house she doesn't own. Like many of the deferred and ARM loans, most folks lept before they looked.

  • HAHAHA!!! This is increasingly getting off the subject but in a hilarious, ambiguously racist way.

  • It's simple. Black people reduce housing prices. Is it racist? You bet. But, it's a practical observation. Capitalism works in mysterious ways.

  • How did this turn into a racist thing? there are plenty of african americans in houston and atlanta that are doing well ther are bad places everywhere

    but just because a black person lives near the property has to go sown in value? nada also your little side comments leads me to believe the you are tunnel minded person to say the lease

  • And that's all BESIDES the rising ocst of land (due to squeezed availablity).I built my house in 1995 - 170 sq m, on 1250 sq m (1/4 acre). Land cost $26,000, building cost $95,000. Currently, the land value is assessed at $56,000 and the improvements at $329,000, or $1,970 sq m. To build the same place now would cost $2,000 a sq m, ergo, the replacement cost matches the current assessed value

  • Only idiots were paying nosebleed prices for homes in the past 5 years with the flipper mentality, "it does not matter what I pay for a home, because I'll always be able to find a bigger fool than myself to sell it to at a higher price." This is the exact same type of momentum bubble chasing mentality that got so many margin traders into trouble during the DOT BOMB bubble. If you bought a home with an interest only or negative amort loan, you bought a home you could not afford. Foolish

  • Question: We paid off our family home and downsized to a retirement cottage, expecting to sell the family home to pay off our children's college loans and have a retirement nest egg. The old house won't sell. Now what? Do I give up and rent it to folks who will tear it up? HELP!

  • Yes. Rent it for a 3-4 years until the market turns,

    fix the stuff they break, and then cash out in better times. It don't make no money sitting empty.

  • Will take 10-15 years, ez, for the market to return to those levels. Cramer says walk away if you lose 20% or more. 7 year credit hit and you're clear.

  • why do you have to rent to people who will tear it up? can't you screen your renters to get a good renter? all renters are not bad

  • People are incredibly DUMB. "I'd better get in so I can make tons of money when prices hit the moon!"... dopes. I heard home prices are fairly cheap in Compton, maybe they can move there -lol!

  • all black area..what a surprise..holly is the video is kind of cute ..

  • Rights smites! If you cant afford it dont buy the damn thing! These interest only loans are killing people! All people are seeing is the low monthly payments at the start! Then come higher interest rates and blamo your monthly mortgage is more than you make in a month! Wake up and do your homework before you buy!!!

  • Idiot woman at the end.

  • anybody that decides to buy property now is a fool real estae in america will decline a min of 20% this year , even more in certain areas , real estate went up 20% a year for the last 5 years it could very easliy go down 20% a years for the next 5 years , dont listen to real estate agents telling you its a great time to buy, thats bull shi t ,, realtors are liars , dont trust them .. dont buy wait and save big money ,

  • I live in Sacramento we are getting hit bad does anybody no what happens if you cant file bank and you owe 300.000 and the only gets 200.00 does the bank come after you for the? thank you

  • Don't ask about financial advice in a YouTube comments thread please. There are too many factors depending on your individual circumstances.

    Better to ask the bank the hard questions.

  • Im not asking for myself I was just wondering man if you lose your job or something does that mean you deserve to get kicked when your down?