Jeff Guo
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1,187 appearances
10 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 11 Sep
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Lenders rely on appraisal reports, which in some cases can just be one person's guess about how much a house will rent out for.
And maybe some of the responsibility also lies with Wall Street.
That giant pool of money is maybe too hungry for opportunities to take bigger risks and make bigger profits.
And there is a bit of deja vu here, because Wall Street's hunger for risky mortgages is partly why the financial crisis happened.
And as a result, we as a society decided that mortgage loans specifically should be less.
risky.
But that was nearly two decades ago, and over the years Wall Street has slowly rediscovered the allure of riskier, more exotic types of mortgages.
Now, we raised these questions with Eric Abramovich, who runs that big private lending operation, who helped popularize these DSCR loans.
And I feel like it there's a flashback to that time of
Easy credit where banks were handing out mortgages like they were lollipops.
backlash,
Eric argues that the US has a housing shortage right now.
So people need access to money to build new homes or to fix up old ones.
We need Wall Street to keep making that money available in the form of loans, even if some of those loans end up going bad.
In Baltimore, Jack and Halley told us, about thirty-five million of the hundred million dollars in bad loans came from private lenders associated with Eric's company.
Are you aware of what's happening there?
Or like how how should we think about it?
that like that situation.
Eric said, look, some loans do go bad, but overall, across the country, most DSCR loans still seem to be doing fine.
And that is what the data show right now.
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