Considering how crazy expensive accommodations have become the last couple of years, concentrated in the hands of greedy corporations, landlords and how little politicians seem to care about this problem, do you think we will ever experience a real estate market crash that would bring those exorbitant prices back to Earth?

  • Anticorp
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    1 year ago

    If you can eat the higher mortgage payment until the interest comes back down, and then you refinance, you’ll actually come out ahead of people who bought at high prices when interest was low. You can always refinance. You can’t re-negotiate what you paid for your house.

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      1 year ago

      I have heard people say this, but why are we assuming the interest rates will come back down?

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        1 year ago

        Because of their historical averages. They could stay high forever, but they probably won’t.