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While the housing bust and tough economy has hit certain states harder than others, everyone is dealing with the hardships from their mistakes and accidents. For a period of a few years, everything was going well with the economy and the housing market was growing at an amazing rate. People used this to their advantage by buying homes, buying second homes, and jumping into the market to flip homes. They intended to buy something run down and cheap, fix it up, and turn around and sell it for a profit, all before more than a few mortgage payments were do. This worked temporarily and made some skillful people a lot of money. It quickly became a trend and less savvy business people jumped on the bandwagon. Around the same time it hit its peak in popularity, the housing market began to crash. Houses stopped selling, people began losing their jobs, and suddenly people were stuck in unaffordable houses. Your modest Texas Home Loan became unaffordable or your Houston mortgageinvestment on a second house you were intending to flip became a mistake, draining your savings. What was the cause of this devastating crash?

Experts agree several factors played a role, some of them honest mistakes and others malicious actions on the part of unscrupulous people. In some cases, lenders took advantage of lax lending standards and a booming market. They convinced people they could afford mortgages that were unreasonable. This was a possibility because payments would balloon over time. A person may buy a home with a monthly mortgage payment they could afford during the first two or three years, but once that introductorty period ended, the rate rose and left them desperate. They may have originally been promised the ability to refinance prior to the rate hike but that never happened. These people were taken advantage of, but they were also foolish enough to trust the lender instead of doing their own research.

Much of the housing boom was fueled by government encouraging lenders to fund loans for people who were high risk. Banks were required to meet lending quotas regardless of risk. Many people were able to get mortgages regardless of their credit and income. When the market began to fail, the strain homeowners like this put on the market became even greater. A part of the economy that had just been rolling along at a breakneck pace was suddenly its biggest strain and people were abandoning their homes in droves, not able to afford their payments. While not agreeing on specific causes, most will agree irresponsible behavior played a major role.

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