Strategic Mortgage Default: Walking Away Is the ‘In Thing to Do Right Now’

Underwater homeowners explain why they’re walking away from their mortgages, even though they can afford the payments.

On “60 Minutes,” Morley Safer talks with a few of the approximately one million American homeowners who are strategically defaulting, one of whom says:

It’s all legal. It’s not anything I ever expected I would be doing. And it sure doesn’t feel good. But it seems like it’s the right thing to do.

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