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Strategies & Market Trends : The Residential Real Estate Crash Index -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill/WA who wrote (4762)	8/28/2002 10:59:58 AM
From: patron_anejo_por_favor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

<<She said his wife was sobbing the whole time they were looking.>> Oh pulleeeze....if that's the worst thing that happens to them, they'll have had a charmed life, IMO...<NG>

To: Bill/WA who wrote (4762)	8/28/2002 1:37:26 PM
From: stan_hughes	Respond to of 306849

That story drips of the scene from The Insider after Dr. Jeffrey Wigand (Russell Crowe) gets fired from Brown & Williamson for blowing the whistle on Big Tobacco. Wigand and his wife are forced by his firing to sell their big house and move into lesser digs. I didn't think the new house was all that terrible, but in the movie his wife never forgives him for the reversal of fortune and she takes a hike. Evidently she was more interested in the provisions than the provider. I know all this doesn't add much to the real estate discussion, but it does speak to how difficult it will be for overextended homeowners in the future when reality bites