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No, if people could just refuse to pay on their home and the bank would write it off the loan as an uncollectable debt and you got to keep the house, EVERYONE WOULD DO IT. It would be a "free" house and very few people would pay their morgages.

You got a loan from the bank in exchange for promising to repay the loan with interest. If you didn't make the payments, you agreed that the bank would get to take your house away from you and THEY would own it.

If you cannot make the payments, then the bank will eventually have to write the loan off as a bad debt/uncollectable debt/bad loan. THEY WILL STILL OWN YOUR HOUSE. They are now going to sell your house to try to make SOME of the money back that they loaned to you. Even if the house sells for less than they loaned you, they will still have made SOMETHING on the deal.

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