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CEO trashes Trump’s 50-year mortgage proposal: “Disgusting insult” (www.newsweek.com)

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Donald Trump’s idea of introducing a 50-year fixed-rate mortgage has been condemned as a “” by James Fishback, the CEO of American investment firm Azoria, who says the proposal will result in “economic genocide against the Gen Z generation.”

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[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You actually bring up a good point. Would banks be willing to even do 50-year fixed rates? You know they’re seething with the number of people that locked in <3% fixed rates a few years ago. Wonder if they’d force something like a 20/30 ARM.

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

Over 50 years? They’d love to do a fixed rate. Hell, a low fixed rate.

The average first time homebuyer age is 40 now.

Most people will die before they pay off a 50 year mortgage. They will suck us dry with the interest and just when we start to make meaningful principal reductions we die; the estate defaults, the bank foreclosed and they “rent” the property to the next sucker, starting from an even higher valuation.

Owning your own home is no longer owning with this plan. It’s renting with extra steps and cost.