Heroes Are Rich AND Poor

Posted July 10, 2010 – 7:14 am in: Mortgages
     

Congratulations to the millions of Americans who had big savings accounts, massive equity in their real estate and great and high paying jobs before the recession. Even more so to the ones who still do!

Millions of other American homeowners had not achieved such a lofty place financially. Some of them are young and just getting started on wealth-building. Some are less fortunate, less well-connected. Some are in the midst of personal calamity like a divorce, death in the family or are really sick themselves. Some are committed to causes that distract them financially, you know, like church, the environment, animal care and protection, etc. And, some just have prioritieslike teaching or preaching or other fields…that just don’t pay very well.

And millions of other American homeowners participated in a horrendous and shameful scam that foolishly, greedily and sometimes fraudulently enabled them to borrow more money from the rich than they should have been able to. These “shameless” Americans not only used that money to purchase dwellings near and even in “good” neighborhoods way above their classbut then had the audacity to actually move their families into them! Everyone seems to agree that these “idiots” should lose their homes and go back toI don’t know, wherever such people rent. Foreclosure is ideal to facilitate this transition (I hope you recognize that I’m kidding!).

There are heroes and villains, struggling with foreclosure, in each group. In my work as a foreclosure consultant I get on the phone and across the table from hundreds of struggling homeowners each month. ‘The vast majority in three groups are heroes - Americans just trying to extend our heritage of restlessness and hope for a better life for our families.

I bristle when I hear the industry pundits pander to smug viewers by attacking the members of the financial lower class. Certainly there are as many housing crisis villains in the wealthy upper-class as in the struggling lower-class.

So, lighten-up on snootiness. Let’s clean-up the mess but be fair. The blame game should be blind to socio-economic class. Because the blame’s all around.

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