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lesuoraclast Tuesday at 4:25 PM0 repliesview on HN

Yeah forced liquidation is a big problem for a long-term loan.

IIUC, Musk et al take loans at 25% of their share's value to avoid this ever coming up.

Also the average house price is 500k in the US so a 20% downpayment (which not everybody does) is still less than 200k.