If this expires in October, what are the effects going to be for landlords, renters, credit, personal spending? What is the magnitude of this?
It is going to be huge, if landlords have not already gone bankrupt, many will. Renters not going to be able to pay for past months of rent and be forced out by courts and will be in the streets as other landlords won't rent to them. Renters will have bad credit for several years, they can file chapter 13 bankruptcy which will give them another five months in their apartments or whatever.
I sold nearly all my real estate holdings five years ago, all of it been in my 401k llc. But my rental houses were hedged, I rented to Section 8 renters, 70% of the rent was paid from U.S. gov't, so even if today they don't pay, they will lose their status to get another Section 8 unit, and I would still be paid by the government to include all structural damages.
Sold cause basically got tired of dealing with human beings, don't care much for most people as it is, but was able to perfects others to pay the 85% mortgages with least amount of risk.
America is certainly Great, once you figure how the games are played, hire intelligent CPA's and attorney's, life is totally different from the masses. I think most people are sheep, they just follow, don't put extra effort, don't live below their means.....