It's kind of depressing looking over a aamortization schedule and seeing just how little equity is accrued with long term financing for the first 5-10 years it's nothing but interest payments basically.

The depression was still fresh in people's minds.

Wonder if we would have gotten out of this messy economy faster or driven it into a Depression...

I lived ina recession, this is a DEPRESSION!

I am in hotel w/depressingly slow internet so it has been frustrating to attempt posting and reading emails.Business phone will be obtained beginning of August.

Because the home owners are depressed, angry, scared and they paniced it is often hard to deal with them.

The indent was a large depression that started near the middle of the living room floor and got deeper as it extended toward the outer wall and the interior living room/bedroom wall.

They will rent to "sleeper" zombies (also placed here by aliens) who will commence to eat walls and electric wiring of properties.Horrified, rental property owners will dump millions of properties onto an already depressed market.

In 2007, the most recent year for which statistics are available, 42% of men and 48% of women began collecting Social Security retirement benefits at age 62, the first year of eligibility.The current recession, the worst since the Depression, is striking when older workers are by historical standards unusually vulnerable.

But then I try to remember that so many people are hurting out there, and while we may not be getting bailouts or principal reductions on our loans -- or any break whatsoever -- we do get the self-respect and strength from knowing we did do it right, did save the reserves to work through hard times, and, at least so far, have lived through the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression with as little stress or hardship as possible to our families.