Peter Schiff Wall Street Unspun January 20, 2010

"One rule of thumb was that a bank would lend about twice one’s annual income. If you made $100,000, the most they would lend was $200,000. Another was that the total of mortgage payments, interest, and taxes should amount to no more than a third of pretax income, which was something people could comfortably handle. They didn’t want people to be stretching. And they wanted an honest appraisal of the property for the obvious reason that they wanted good collateral if the borrower defaulted."
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