(01-05-2021, 01:28 AM)americus 2.0 Wrote:

(01-04-2021, 09:57 PM)StroudCrowd1 Wrote: Placing a hold on rent and mortgages while people use their government issued money to enrich Walmart by purchasing a $600 65" TV is awesome.

I think the housing market is in for a nasty plummet the 2nd half of the year. Low income renters will struggle to find rentals because landlords will begin protecting themselves by collecting 6 months of rent in advance. This will all be happening at the same time eviction moratoriums are lifted and judges begin hearing cases again. Not to mention what banks do to the people who think their mortgage payments have been "put on hold". Buckle up...

I have a medical bill from major surgery and it was involuntarily "put on hold" for eight months as a 'Covid relief measure'. I say involuntary because I could and wanted to pay it the whole time but their system locked out that possibility entirely. Even the employees couldn't access it. They resumed payments and restructured it to a higher payment per month and shortened the payment period. There is a reason we're on a specific payment plan, jackholes!

Thankfully we can cover the bump in payment because it wasn't a huge jump, but it's jacked up that this happened to folks who likely can't afford it. All you have to do is miss or under pay two payments and you automatically owe the full amount. It's jacked up we didn't have a choice in either decision. I feel for folks who are going to get screwed like this, not just for thousands of dollars like us, but tens of thousands of dollars on mortgages that have interest rates.

Screwby. The government has bent us over as a country and none of us even has a clue how bad we're really screwed yet, but its coming.