May 24, 2012
Richard Green, director of the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate, has studied the issue and found that borrowers who had put higher down payments on their properties were less likely to abandon their homes even if they couldn't sell their homes for enough to pay off their mortgages.
"People don't like to walk away from something they have put money into," Green said. "People seem to hate realizing losses."
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