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To: ChanceIs who wrote (106080)	2/22/2008 12:04:24 AM
From: patron_anejo_por_favor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

>>There is another (second) stimulus bill in the works. (That should tell you everything you need to know right there.) This Tuesday there will be a back door attempt to get language into the bill which would give BK judges the authority to write down mortgage debt to the current house value.< Good grief. Everytime I start to think "whew, I finally got enough gold to get through this" another story like this comes along!<NG>

To: ChanceIs who wrote (106080)	2/22/2008 12:52:54 PM
From: Peter V	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 306849

This Tuesday there will be a back door attempt to get language into the bill which would give BK judges the authority to write down mortgage debt to the current house value. Why am I the first to reply to this post? This seems awful! We are going to allow the BK laws to erase the money they owe to the mortgage holder without taking back the house? That's absolutely NUTZ! Rather than getting paid out of the sale of whatever assets the borrower has left to sell, the mortgage holder gets paid ZERO on the excess value of the home, and still has this lousy BK risk living in the house, who is likely to default after that and have his house foreclosed anyway! God help anybody holding those CDO's. Maybe I should go out and buy a huge-ass mansion in an area that looks ripe for a fall, then declare BK and reduce my debt to market value. Brilliant!