Just biding my time and hoping I can buy when it bottoms out.
i was in title & escrow from about 2000 to 20008 when it all finally cratered. But even my dumb ass saw it coming. All these asshole, fast talking mortgage brokers putting together fucking idiotic, liar, predatory lending bullshit deals. Selling the payment (what was the bank in texas that let you do two mortgage payments a month, splitting them equally, just to sell the payment?

) It was insane, and as escrow personnel, I had to be "a neutral third party" and couldn't tell Juan & Maria that their agent, Jose was fucking them over with this ARM (and the origination fees). I'd see the 1003 with Juan making $20k a month as a "landscape architect" and Maria making another $15k as the owner of a cleaning company, when in reality, they were living hand to mouth as a laborer and a house cleaner. The asians preyed on the asians and the iranians did the same. It was disgusting. There were a few people that caught on when I'd point specific things out in the loan documents (trying my hardest not to wink & nod), but most were lulled by the phony "i'm your buddy! I'm one of you!" tactics the brokers used. But sure as shit, they'd default in a few months! There was one escrow officer at one of the companies I worked at that ended up doing jail time for mail & wire fraud for colluding with the mortgage brokers on deals with straw buyers.