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tularetom

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1. This is an apt description of many in my family

Reply to Seedersandleechers (Original post)

Tue Jan 31, 2012, 02:12 PM

Jan 2012

And a lot of them have little or no equity in homes that they have lived in for a decade or more because they borrowed against their equity to buy cars, boats, travel etc before the market took a dump. They are a couple of paychecks away from living in their cars or trying to move back with us.

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