Quote from Restricted:
I love how they spin this shit as bullish. They are so desperate to keep the dream alive.
If the fed needs to cut at 5.25% then things are much worse than everyone thinks and it aint time to be long equities.
You make a good point. The funny thing is that even if they do cut, I think they're not going to suddenly find a new crop of homebuyers to prop this market up. It's past that.
These Alt-A loans are going to be the thing that breaks the camel's back. They're ugly loans written to people with unverified incomes for the most part and most people can't just refinance proprties.
If you buy something in a bubble market with a teaser rate and get a negative amortizing loan, when that rate adjusts are you going to pay a higher interest rate on 115% of the purchase price of an overpriced property? I doubt it. Is it going to be easy for you to get a new loan on another property when you're defaulting on your current one? I doubt it.
These reset rates are going to be the kicker. The days of refinancing are over because equity isn't going up endlessly like it did from 2002-2005 in RE markets...the next few months are going to bring a shock to bull crowd I think.
Glad a few others here see it the same way...it's amazing to me how the spinners on CNBC ignore the guy warning about a mortgage crisis to focus on IPOs and bull dynamics.
