Yeah well thats sort of along my line of thinking. I detest moving, I have to live somewhere, and I like my home.
And you are right.. a good credit score in the future might not mean much.. especially after all this is over. I was thinking along the lines of people who walk away, only to never be able to buy another house in the future.
Except that never happens. On the periphery of the family, we have a nere-do-well relative who's declared bankruptcy at least three times that I know about, lost a house each time, and she just bought another. Ditto for a guy at work that just bought a house despite being forcibly evicted from his last house when we hired him 6 years ago. These black marks seem to fade quickly.