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What happens to mortgages during hyperinflation?

 
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What happens to mortgages during hyperinflation?
With all the talk and rumors of a coming worldwide economic carsh lately, was wondering this:

Let's say you buy a house in calm economic times. You put half down, get a 30 year mortgage, and pay $1000/mo at 6%.

Then hyperinflation hits. A cup of coffee costs $1 million, like in Venezuela and Zimbabwe.

What happens to your mortgage? (assuming the banks are still standing) Do you pay it off with your pocket change? Or is there a catch?

(I recently read mortgage papers, 15 pages of it, and don't see any clause about money becoming worthless. But then again, I'm not a lawyer either)

Thanks in advance for your input.
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Re: What happens to mortgages during hyperinflation?
With all the talk and rumors of a coming worldwide economic carsh lately, was wondering this:

Let's say you buy a house in calm economic times. You put half down, get a 30 year mortgage, and pay $1000/mo at 6%.

Then hyperinflation hits. A cup of coffee costs $1 million, like in Venezuela and Zimbabwe.

What happens to your mortgage? (assuming the banks are still standing) Do you pay it off with your pocket change? Or is there a catch?

(I recently read mortgage papers, 15 pages of it, and don't see any clause about money becoming worthless. But then again, I'm not a lawyer either)

Thanks in advance for your input.
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As long as you chose a fixed rate (not variable) you pay your entire mortgage off with 3 loaves of bread.

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Re: What happens to mortgages during hyperinflation?
Variable and your fucked. Like in VZ where they jacked the inerest rate to 65%... Your 1k mortgage just became....
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My post was a day late and a dollar short.

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Re: What happens to mortgages during hyperinflation?
The house I could barely afford in my 20's became quite a bargain in my 30's.
A combination of inflation and better jobs and wages.
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Re: What happens to mortgages during hyperinflation?
Inflation is a way for the state to pay off its debt.

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Re: What happens to mortgages during hyperinflation?
Thanks. Personally, I'm fixed at 6.93% With only 6 years left. (and no 2nd mortgage either)

Seems to good to be true. Makes a person kinda look forward to economic doom.
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Re: What happens to mortgages during hyperinflation?
Your payment doesn't change, assuming fixed rate, and your home value goes through the roof.

You just pretty much have to stay in your home - unless they invent a portable mortgage. Your next house will cost 1 trillion and have an interest rate of 1658% per month. Probably ought to stay put until things calm down.
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Re: What happens to mortgages during hyperinflation?
The mortgage is a contract until the term ends.

As for the comparison that your house would be about the same price as bread, just because bread cost $1000000 doesn’t mean you have the money to buy it. That’s the problem with hyperinflation.
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Re: What happens to mortgages during hyperinflation?
You just never know.

The bank could recall the loan immediately.

If it's an official government devaluation of currency then they MIGHT also index all debt to the percentage of devaluation.

If market forces devalue the currency then you MIGHT be able to pay off your mortgage with pocket change.

Hyperinflation is a wild animal & very unpredictable.
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Ummm...if the value of your house appreciates due to hyperinflation it's not the mortgage note that you need to worry about...it's the property taxes that will skyrocket.
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Re: What happens to mortgages during hyperinflation?
Variable and your fucked. Like in VZ where they jacked the inerest rate to 65%... Your 1k mortgage just became....
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65% is Argentina. Emerging markets are actually submerging.
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Re: What happens to mortgages during hyperinflation?
Thanks. Personally, I'm fixed at 6.93% With only 6 years left. (and no 2nd mortgage either)

Seems to good to be true. Makes a person kinda look forward to economic doom.
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Amazing how low the rates are now. 3.85 for 15 year. 6.9 seems super high but it must be old huh?
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Re: What happens to mortgages during hyperinflation?
Inflation is a way for the state to pay off its debt.

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No state plans to pay off its debt (except with confetti).
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Re: What happens to mortgages during hyperinflation?
Thanks. Personally, I'm fixed at 6.93% With only 6 years left. (and no 2nd mortgage either)

Seems to good to be true. Makes a person kinda look forward to economic doom.
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Why didn't you refinance a few years ago? I refinanced to a 15 year mortgage at 2.62%. Even my 30 year prior to the refinance was 5.25%.

You've been paying way too much in interest.
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In the 80's with hyperinflation, my grandparents would take a mortgage on their house and put it into CD's paying 15%
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Re: What happens to mortgages during hyperinflation?
Thanks. Personally, I'm fixed at 6.93% With only 6 years left. (and no 2nd mortgage either)

Seems to good to be true. Makes a person kinda look forward to economic doom.
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Why didn't you refinance a few years ago? I refinanced to a 15 year mortgage at 2.62%. Even my 30 year prior to the refinance was 5.25%.

You've been paying way too much in interest.
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I have no credit score. Private loan.
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Re: What happens to mortgages during hyperinflation?
Inflation is a way for the state to pay off its debt.

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 Quoting: MeisterEder.


No state plans to pay off its debt (except with confetti).
 Quoting: Movalong


Debt gets paid all the time.


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Re: What happens to mortgages during hyperinflation?
Thanks. Personally, I'm fixed at 6.93% With only 6 years left. (and no 2nd mortgage either)

Seems to good to be true. Makes a person kinda look forward to economic doom.
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Why didn't you refinance a few years ago? I refinanced to a 15 year mortgage at 2.62%. Even my 30 year prior to the refinance was 5.25%.

You've been paying way too much in interest.
 Quoting: Blue Wave

I have no credit score. Private loan.
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No credit or bad credit?
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Re: What happens to mortgages during hyperinflation?
You just never know.

The bank could recall the loan immediately.

If it's an official government devaluation of currency then they MIGHT also index all debt to the percentage of devaluation.

If market forces devalue the currency then you MIGHT be able to pay off your mortgage with pocket change.

Hyperinflation is a wild animal & very unpredictable.
 Quoting: Mental Case


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Re: What happens to mortgages during hyperinflation?
Ummm...if the value of your house appreciates due to hyperinflation it's not the mortgage note that you need to worry about...it's the property taxes that will skyrocket.

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But you can't sell the house because nobody has the cash upfront & the banks stop lending in a hyperinflationary invironment.
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Re: What happens to mortgages during hyperinflation?
No credit or bad credit?
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No credit. Never played that game. And I'm almost 60.

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Inflation is good for borrowers, bad for savers, and fixed incomes.

Banks actually prefer moderate inflation since it encourages borrowing even though it costs them some money in the long term.
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Re: What happens to mortgages during hyperinflation?
Ummm...if the value of your house appreciates due to hyperinflation it's not the mortgage note that you need to worry about...it's the property taxes that will skyrocket.
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Guess that old saying is true: No escape from death & taxes.
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Re: What happens to mortgages during hyperinflation?
Inflation is a way for the state to pay off its debt.

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No state plans to pay off its debt (except with confetti).
 Quoting: Movalong


Debt gets paid all the time.


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This time is different because 1) the whole world uses currencies backed by farts of central bankers; 2) the whole world is saturated with debt.
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Re: What happens to mortgages during hyperinflation?
With all the talk and rumors of a coming worldwide economic carsh lately, was wondering this:

Let's say you buy a house in calm economic times. You put half down, get a 30 year mortgage, and pay $1000/mo at 6%.

Then hyperinflation hits. A cup of coffee costs $1 million, like in Venezuela and Zimbabwe.

What happens to your mortgage? (assuming the banks are still standing) Do you pay it off with your pocket change? Or is there a catch?

(I recently read mortgage papers, 15 pages of it, and don't see any clause about money becoming worthless. But then again, I'm not a lawyer either)

Thanks in advance for your input.
 Quoting: Sikhed


As long as you chose a fixed rate (not variable) you pay your entire mortgage off with 3 loaves of bread.

truestory
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Not true. The banks will always be able to change rules and law because, well, they are banks and they have all the money. The reason I know this is because I read about it happening somewhere before and the banks did indeed change the rules so they didn't get screwed. The banks will never lose! So, no, I don't think you will just be able to pay it off in inflated dollars, at least not all of it. Perhaps at the beginning of hyperinflation you might, until the banks get around to changing their mortegage rules.
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