Re:The history and opportunity of the modern mortgage [video]
by sokoloff on Sunday June 09, 2019 @10:53AM
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For residential, there’s some adverse incentives at play. If I borrow from someone and give them equity, my incentive to improve (or even maintain) the property is dramatically curtailed.
Conversely, if we try to alleviate that, maybe a lender ends up on the hook for a call for their 10% of my $500K addition to maintain their pro-rata. That ends up subsidizing remodels which tend to pay back less than $1 for $1.
Conversely, if we try to alleviate that, maybe a lender ends up on the hook for a call for their 10% of my $500K addition to maintain their pro-rata. That ends up subsidizing remodels which tend to pay back less than $1 for $1.