• dev_null@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    Well they are not forced to keep the house. They can sell it, or if they don’t want it at all, they can give it away. But then why did they sign up for it in the first place?

    You are saying as if they were forced against their will to get a free house.

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      2 months ago

      Would you say no to a free house? People do things against their interest all the time.

      You also don’t know that they weren’t required to hold on to the house for a certain amount of time in order to accept the house. I would be surprised if there weren’t such conditions. Maybe you are financially literate enough to turn down a deal like that, they aren’t necessarily.

      They’re also only one job loss away from a tax lien against the house they thought they could afford to live in because they got it for free.