GiddyGap@lemm.ee to News@lemmy.world · 8 months agoA Huge Number of Homeowners Have Mortgage Rates Too Good to Give Upwww.nytimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square58fedilinkarrow-up1288arrow-down19
arrow-up1279arrow-down1external-linkA Huge Number of Homeowners Have Mortgage Rates Too Good to Give Upwww.nytimes.comGiddyGap@lemm.ee to News@lemmy.world · 8 months agomessage-square58fedilink
minus-squareStereoTrespasser@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up30arrow-down1·8 months agoKinda strange reading all these comments about how people dislike their house and where they live, but can’t imagine giving up their mortgage rate. The almighty mortgage handcuffs, the true American dream.
minus-squareMalachaiConstant@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·8 months agoMy wife and I LOVE our house and don’t want to leave, but we definitely thought it was going to be a starter home. We straight up could not afford the mortgage payments anywhere else at today’s rates, even in a much smaller house
Kinda strange reading all these comments about how people dislike their house and where they live, but can’t imagine giving up their mortgage rate.
The almighty mortgage handcuffs, the true American dream.
Oh look it’s me. 3.125%
My wife and I LOVE our house and don’t want to leave, but we definitely thought it was going to be a starter home. We straight up could not afford the mortgage payments anywhere else at today’s rates, even in a much smaller house