There are so many mortgage companies closing their doors and filing bankruptcy. Never in history have so many loan officers quit so fast due to skyrocketing mortgage rates. Besides the surging rates, housing inventory is low. Many homeowners who got mortgage rates at 2.5% two years ago are not budging on selling their homes. I heard in the beginning of the year 2023, there were 150,000 mortgage loan officers in the United States. A few weeks ago, the number of loan officers left in the United States was somewhere in the 70,000. I have researched this matter with hundreds of loan officers, mortgage company owners, processors, support and operation mortgage professionals, real estate agents, underwriters, wholesale mortgage account representatives, builders, and anyone directly or indirectly in the housing and mortgage industries. Please share your thoughts.

• This discussion was modified 1 week, 1 day ago by  Sapna Sharma.

Peter Schiff, the economist who predicted the 2008 housing market crash now predicts an 80% to 90% housing crash. Don’t underestimate Peter Schiff. Schiff has been spot on his housing and economic forecast for years. Government should not intervene on the open market. The FED printing money has a disastrous impact on the overall economy. Government control and guarantee railroads the housing and banking system where it disrupts the overall economic development system and the end result is a financial crisis. Homeowners who purchased homes are barely surviving and many cannot afford their housing expenses. Homes are getting reasseessed where property taxes are increasing 50% and more. Homeowners insurance is doubling in many areas. Many people cannot afford the maintenance in their homes where the end result will be a tear down. Bankruptcy and foreclosure numbers are skyrocketing at historic highs. Watch Peter Schiff’s commentary on the state of our economy.

https://youtu.be/QjaFDvJ02OI?si=sPI1S5bqTW367cuB