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Comment by russell_h

6 days ago

I don't think lenders have any ability to retroactively require PMI; certainly no mortgage I've ever signed permitted this.

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bombcar  5 days ago

Correct - though the dirty secret is some percentage of the economy is run on rolling loans against house equity, and prices stagnating or dropping would slow that down.

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