Your Government Wants You To Fail

Your Government Wants You To Fail

Investor 路 Fort Lauderdale, FL 路 Member since 2013 路 919 posts 路 607 votes

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They're doling out mortgages to borrowers with 580 credit scores and 3.5% down.
Give people with weak credit the smallest possible down payment.
Put them into the most expensive asset they鈥檒l ever own.
Then hope nothing goes wrong.

But something always goes wrong.
A job loss.
A medical bill.
A car repair.
A recession.
Poor financial decisions.

When you start with almost no equity and weak credit, there鈥檚 no margin for error.
Through January 2026, 11.5% of FHA mortgages are delinquent. Conventional loans, 2.9%
FHA loans account for nearly half of all foreclosures despite being only 15% of all mortgages.
And yet the system keeps pushing people into homeownership as if it鈥檚 some kind of moral obligation.

Did we learn nothing from 2008?
Lower the standards.
Expand access to easy credit.
Pump up housing demand.
Then act surprised when defaults rise later.

Not everyone can buy a house right now.
Sometimes the smartest move is to rent, save cash, build your credit, and buy when you鈥檙e stronger financially.
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  • Realtor 路 Hanover Twp, PA 路 Member since 2018 路 3k+ posts 路 3k+ votes
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    @Michael Carbonare, 

    Quite the opposite! A low down payment can mean that people have more money in reserve for when something goes wrong! Why put money into your down payment when you have more important or productive uses for it!

    A low credit score isn't helping or hurting you when something bad happens except maybe limiting your ability to get unsecured credit but even people with better scores will have difficulty accessing credit when bad things happen because by the time they decide to try to open a new line of credit things have often tanked their score anyways. 

    Yes, it is normal for borrowers with lesser qualifications to have a higher default rate, but they would also have a higher default rate as renters! At least as owners they might gain some equity and sell, refinance, or get a mortgage modification as opposed to just getting evicted!

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