{"id":15979,"date":"2011-06-16T16:00:11","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T23:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/?p=15979"},"modified":"2015-07-25T15:06:12","modified_gmt":"2015-07-25T22:06:12","slug":"dori-monson-tackles-walking-away-from-your-mortgage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/16\/dori-monson-tackles-walking-away-from-your-mortgage\/","title":{"rendered":"Dori Monson Tackles Walking Away from Your Mortgage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hat tip <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/16\/drop-in-foreclosures-extends-another-month\/#comment-134608\">to Ray Pepper<\/a> for pointing out <a href=\"http:\/\/mynorthwest.com\/?nid=157&#038;p=6\" title=\"Dori Monson Show\">Dori Monson&#8217;s radio segments<\/a> yesterday and today on walking away from one&#8217;s mortgage.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the audio segments (the first is about seven minutes long, the second about 10 minutes):<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-15979-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Dori_Monson_Show_Walk-Away_20110615_1pm.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Dori_Monson_Show_Walk-Away_20110615_1pm.mp3\">http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Dori_Monson_Show_Walk-Away_20110615_1pm.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<div style=\"clear:both; margin:10px 0;\"><\/div>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-15979-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Dori_Monson_Show_Walk-Away_20110616_12pm.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Dori_Monson_Show_Walk-Away_20110616_12pm.mp3\">http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Dori_Monson_Show_Walk-Away_20110616_12pm.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<div style=\"clear:both; margin:10px 0;\"><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s interesting to note that in the second segment, Dori&#8217;s guest was Howard Bono, the subject of <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/tag\/howard-bono\/\" title=\"Howard Bono on Seattle Bubble\">a number of recent posts<\/a> on these pages.  He makes basically the same argument about the ethics of walking away that I made in this pair of posts from a year ago:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/11\/on-misguided-ethics-and-walking-away-from-a-mortgage\/\" title=\"On Misguided Ethics and Walking Away from a Mortgage\">On Misguided Ethics and Walking Away from a Mortgage<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/12\/did-banks-act-in-good-faith-during-the-bubble\/\" title=\"Did Banks Act in Good Faith During the Bubble?\">Did Banks Act in Good Faith During the Bubble?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I mostly agree with Howard&#8217;s comments on the air, although it is pretty disingenuous to claim that &#8220;most of the time you don&#8217;t get to review it <em>[the mortgage contract]<\/em>, most of the time you don&#8217;t even read it&#8221; (at about 4:20 in the second clip).  If you&#8217;re going to walk away, take responsibility.  If you didn&#8217;t read the mortgage contract that&#8217;s nobody&#8217;s fault but your own.  You certainly had an opportunity to review it, you just declined that opportunity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hat tip to Ray Pepper for pointing out Dori Monson&#8217;s radio segments yesterday and today on walking away from one&#8217;s mortgage. 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