They are known to take a hard stance against investors and they usually will not pay 6% comissions.Eric-I agree that some loss mit reps do get emotional at times and this certainly can have an impact.

I'm a big proponent of doing whatever it takes to balance the budget, but this bill would have had no impact on the budget, as it paid for itself.Rich - Thanks for the well wishes...and wow, what a crazy story!

The borrowers, in return, should get some sort of incentive usually in the form of a smaller impact to their credit rating and/or a reduced deficiency (loss). 2.

I've never seen any studies that indicate sexual preference has any impact on credit-worthiness, trust-worthiness or integrity... :)

We also have quite a bit of cash flow that tends to dampen the impact of equity losses on paper.

In any event, this ruling will certainly impact other sectors of the real estate industry and may yet further tighten lending as banks turn a more conservative and perhaps wiser and traditional approach on their lending.

Things like schools, public transportion, amenities, etc impact market rents, so trying to evaluate market rents on a town, city or state level probably won't generate any actionable information.

But it's still interesting to note that even though economy is doing slightly better, but that is not having an impact on the housing market yet.The housing market depends a lot on the lending situation and until the lending situation is sorted out, the housing market will not recover.

Letting their lives and relationships impact yours is just blood pressure you don't need.

I have had many notes yielding 30% or more and the fluctuating of short term interest rates while having those investments was laughable, of no impact to me.It is simply inappropriate to apply academic thinking and concerns of interest rate risks to any small investor of notes.Putting this in perspective in the real world, interest rate volitility, the movement or interest rates in the economy only effects an investment that has a yield that is close or the same as current market rates.