jingle mail

jingle mail
The practice of posting ones house keys back to the mortgage company because of negative equity or inability to pay mortgage investments.

"Theres going to be a lot of jingle mail this winter," Barnes says of owners who will simply pop their house keys in the mail in lieu of a mortgage check.


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