Homeowners:
Can't pay? Just walk away
More and more borrowers
are watching their house values sink while the
cost of their loans skyrockets.
What to do? Skip out on the mortgage all together.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Mortgage
payments are set to jump. Home prices have plunged.
"I'm outta here."
Homeowners are abandoning their homes and,
more importantly, their mortgages, rather than
trying to keep up with rising payments on deteriorating
assets. So many people are handing their keys
back to lenders that a new term has been coined
for it: jingle mail.
"I stopped paying my mortgage in October,
after shelling out about $70,000 in interest
[over 15 months]," said one borrower, David,
who doesn't want his last name used. "Now,
I'm just waiting for the default notice."..................Full
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