Article On Strategic Defaults

I ran across this article from U.S. News & World Report, dated 1/19/10 concerning "strategic defaults":

http://www.usnews.com/money/personal-finance/real-estate/articles/2010/01/19/strategic-defaults-and-the-foreclosure-crisis.html

The article is interesting in that it summarizes various facets of the "strategic default" situation and presents an interesting example of the dynamics that one "underwater" homeowner faces.

I have mentioned "strategic defaults" on numerous occasions. It is a very important "wildcard" in the residential real estate equation.

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