A firm which has specialized in helping consumers escapeunderwater mortgages is finding their former clients open toreturning to the market again.

YouWalkAway.com has been in business since 2007 and claims tohave helped 6,000 to 7,000 consumers minimize damage to theircredit scores as they abandoned property they could no longerafford, a process known as strategicdefault.

Now the firm has discovered that far from being averse to themortgage market, almost 80% of its former clients surveyedexpressed a desire to purchase another home within a year afterlosing the first one in a foreclosure, short sale or deed in lieu of foreclosure.

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