Five to 10 years ago, lenders passed out mortgages as eagerly as parents hiding Easter eggs for the first time.
“Money was free. Anybody could play,” said Van Rose, president of Rose & Womble Realty Co.’s new-homes division. “You needed no credit. You needed no breath.”
Mortgage applications? “You could write one from the grave and get it approved,” he said.
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