Is it unethical to allow your house to be foreclosed?

Is it unethical to allow your house to be foreclosed?
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I suppose this would be a choice between keeping your word of honor, or breaking the promise you made to pay for the thing you said you’d pay for. Seeing just how many lives are spanked by the foreclosure crisis, though, makes me wonder how it would be considered “ethical” to not only break your promise (contract), but allow your neighbors’ property value to decrease, other people lose jobs, etc.
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