只有通过对比重修所需的费用与所节省下的钱的差额，你才有可能从购买低价抵押房中获利。

Weigh the costs of fixing up the property against the savings you'll likely reap by buying a lower-priced foreclosed home.

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芝加哥房地产商杰伊迈克尔说：“房价呈现明显地下降趋势，所以购买抵押房并不一定像你所想象的那样有利可图。

Values have slipped significantly, says Jay Michael, partner at Estate Property Group, a Chicago real estate brokerage, so you may not be getting the bargain you think with a foreclosure.

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People on Wall Street found that difficult to say -Federal National Mortgage Corporation- so they nicknamed it Fannie Mae; it sounds like a woman's name.

华尔街的人觉得这名字很拗口,联邦,国民,抵押,贷款,协会,所以给它起了个昵称,房利美,这听起来像个女性名字

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It tells how--there's a conforming loan limit that is a limit on how much Fannie and Freddie -how big a mortgage they can make to one homeowner.

两者都有一个贷款限额标准,也就是限定房利美和房地美,面向单个购房者的抵押贷款额度

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Congress thought that these people could be given more money to operate if someone would buy the mortgages from them, so Fannie Mae started doing that in 1938.

国会认为若从他们那买走抵押贷款,他们就有更多资金去发放贷款,因此房利美从1938年开始运作

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