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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (451880)	1/28/2009 1:31:49 PM
From: michael97123	Respond to of 1575612

point taken...it would have to be for folks who are in default. Folks like you might resent that but you would swallow hard because you wouldnt want to lose your credit rating.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (451880)	1/28/2009 2:14:45 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575612

"My own house, for instance, is a little below what I bought it at, but still 40% above what the previous owners bought it at." But, in more normal times, your house would have been appreciating every year as you paid down the principal, growing your wealth. For most Americans in normal economic times, their house has been their financial bedrock. The American home is the basis for the wealth of the American middle class - or was. The American middle class has powered the world economy with it's consumption since the end of WWII. Times be a changin'..