I went from living (surviving) on a part-time $8/hr job, food stamps and student loans to graduating with a master's degree and landing a job with a current salary I would have never imagined was possible for me thirteen years ago.

I mean, hey, I came late in life to financial sanity and the decision to invest and retire early, and made lots of stupid decisions early, but I'm in my mid 50's now and have people my age that are just pitiful.A friend of ours posted on Facebook that her husbands wallet was stolen and they don't know how they are going to survive till payday because it had almost a hundred dollars in it and now they can't buy gas to get to work.100 bucks is a disaster?  

Yes...but if you can't have that conversation, what chance do you two have on survival as a couple?  

The fact that many businesses before didn't survive there is not a good sign.

I started putting money together in October, with the PFD check we get every year from the state for surviving a year in Alaska. 

The way I survive :- do not accept s8- make sure you have good PM, for example evernest above- let them handle everything

You need not have a Harvard business degree to realize, that there is no business in any industry on this planet, that can survive on 10% margins.

I got a really clever email from a friend and decided to turn it into a blog post.... as a community of entrepreneurs, I figured you'd all appreciate it:

How Dare You! How to Charge Your Friends for Calls, Emails, Te...

While these factors may bring about some personal situation, like a bank not renewing a loan, it's an individual's ability to survive these life events that keep them from getting in distressed situations.

Liens can exist before a property is sold, and can survive the sale of the property - and that can be for any property, not just REO.