Walking Away From Your Mortgage

A new breed of company wants to solve your mortgage woes. But what exactly are these guys selling?

Illustration for TIME by Andree Kahlmorgan

Nearly 9% of all U.S. mortgages--or 4.8 million loans--are past due or in some stage of foreclosure. So when a company claims to offer distressed homeowners both relief from their mortgages and revenge against the bankers who saddled them with too much debt ("Give the lenders back their own headaches"), there are plenty of people eager to hear more. For $695, the Walk Away Plan promises to extract homeowners from the agony of mortgages they can no longer afford or from houses now worth far less than the amount they owe. A similarly named outfit called You Walk Away croons on...

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