But, like someone else posted earlier, there was a very concious effort on the part of our elected (congress) and unelected officials (Greenspan and the heads of FM & FM) to loosen lending guidelines.

I messed with the faucet some, it loosened up, and then bam -- the water is a-flowing.

Something else I do if I'm not in a talkative mood but need to return calls, I'll call a friend and chat with them for a few minutes to loosen up.

It doesn't affect longer term owners who have built up equity as much as they just loose some value when caps loosen up but for a new buyer at that high threshold it can sink you quick.

The heating system was turned off during construction and over a couple of weeks the system cooled down, the fittings loosened in the slab and the water drained out and pressurized the slab.

At least a few banks are starting to loosen up in their lending.

The slip nut areas are what tenants bang into, loosen and leak. 

Loosen up a little and enjoy the joys of real estate investing!

I'm hoping that in the next year or two, things will loosen up a bit with interest rates and property values, although I may be mistaken in thinking that is a good thing for a beginning investor.

The big bankers and CEO's of lending institutitions all loosen the lending guidelines and allow all these mortgages to be created that make no sense.