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High interest rates. How about 9% -22%. Review the 1980s.

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Real Estate Agent with RE/MAX Advantage

Interest rates in the 80's. 9% to 22%.  real estate

Interest rate booklet from 1980's.

So we REALTORS are worried about what's coming!  Interest rates are around 7% right now and we are hurting.  Those of us who go back to the 1980s remember living through awful times.  This book was found in a deceased real estate agent's estate sale and brought back many memories for me.  We did lots of owner-financing!  

We were also fortunate in having some assumable loans that didn't require credit checks or permission.  FHA loans, VA loans, and ADFA (called bond money loans) were assumable.  This book was published in 1980 and had the owner's name and his date was 1989.

Let's see what happens!  We made it through it then but it was no fun!!

 

Gwen Fowler SC Lakes & Mountains 864-710-4518
Gwen Fowler Real Estate, Inc - Walhalla, SC
Gwen Fowler Real Estate, Inc.

Time is money, you can always refinance when the rates change for the better.  Owning a home is much better than helping the landlord own an investment property.

Nov 02, 2022 09:49 AM
Barbara S. Duncan

True, Gwen, but refinancing costs a bundle.

Nov 02, 2022 11:16 AM
Jeff Masich-Scottsdale AZ Associate Broker,MBA,GRI
HomeSmart Real Estate - Scottsdale, AZ
Arizona Homes and Land Group/ Buy or Sell

Good points Barbara. We are still closer to record low mortgage rates than record highs!

Nov 02, 2022 10:07 AM
Barbara S. Duncan

I agree with you on that, Jeff.  Houses have just become so expensive that it seems stronger.

 

Nov 02, 2022 11:16 AM
Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
Pasadena And Southern California 818.516.4393

Hello Barbara - it's amazing how adaptable people can be when confronted with change.  

Nov 02, 2022 01:10 PM