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To: ogi who wrote (55974)	1/26/2008 10:03:43 AM
From: Metacomet	Read Replies (1) of 78430

I do think many mortgage holders were victimized for the benefit of the commissions involved which were in place to feed the paper up the line to the derivatives market. Exactly. There may have been a small percentage of borrowers with the sophistication to knowingly exploit these lending opportunities, but that would have been a fairly small subset of the borrowers. The majority of these folks, as you said, were either knowingly or more probably, unintentionally victimized by incompetent advisors. The entire gravy train was energized by the erroneous mantra that "real estate always rises". Operating from this premise, realtors and lenders, compensated for making deals, encouraged their clients to borrow as much as they possibly could even if it involved a bit of fudging. When the property "inevitably" increased in value, they could always sell at a substantial profit or refi, with sufficient cash out to deal with any financial strain. In most cases, the "advisors", who had just passed a real estate or mortgage brokers exam didn't know any better. The blame properly lies at the feet of a government that allowed a regulatory structure to be bypassed at the behest of powerful and greedy real estate/homebuilding/financial interests who merely asked for and received the special benefits this administration has awarded to all who supported their rise to power.

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