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</html><description>April Charney sent me a link to a post which had a condescending explanation of a recent piece by FICO that warrants further discussion. The FICO article attempted to justify its position that someone who enters into a short sale gets his credit score dinged as badly as for a foreclosure. Yes, you read that correctly. One of the reasons many borrowers go to the effort to arrange a short sale, as opposed to the faster and easier process of "jingle mail" is that they assume that the damage to their credit score will be lower.  Here is the rationale....</description><thumbnail_url>http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Screen-shot-2012-09-26-at-2.10.36-AM.png</thumbnail_url></oembed>

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