Wamu-biggest Bank To Fail In Us History!

[Ponyup]

I blame my generation. I have friends that couldn't make a house payment up & moved & got another loan for another house & thought that is okay. They have over 200,000 in credit card debt. I'm just so happy that I married a wonderful man that knew what he was doing. We buy everything with credit card, but pay it off at the end of the month. We use the credit cards money for free while our money makes interest in a saving account. He has excellent credit, I'm building mine slowly. We put 30% down on our first house....which was a small, inexpensive starter home. I don't understand how people can get loans for these giant houses they are building. My husband told me that your house payment should only be 15-20% of your monthly wage. I'm sure these houses I see are way more than that. I just don't understand why banks give these kinds of loans. It's like you're preying on people. You know quite well they can't afford those payments, but they don't care....they just want your money. I agree it was the greed of these large banks that did us in. I've never been so happy to be from a small town & how my mortgage with a small locally owned bank that actually cares about people.