@Jared Chicken Great employment growth over the last 5 years

And what about the lurking serial chicken-choker with his phone raunch?

Trouble is they are rare as chicken teeth in my area right now.  

Guess, I've been chicken, but I never pulled the trigger. 

Chicken and egg problem.On one hand, housing prices continue to drop destroying the security in mortgages.

Our laws do not allow liens to be put on non-exempt property which includes:Homestead- One can own a $1 million dollar home free and clear and it cannot be touch12 Cattle, 2 Horses and 120 chickens- LOL but trueBelongings and furnishings- Can't be touch up to $30,000(Not positive)Guns- Don't even try to go after someone's gun in TexasBibleFarm equipmentOne car per family member and so onWages cannot be garnished as well. 

One way you could turn lemons into lemonade (or chicken sh*t into chicken salad) is to determine if you could still complete and insured transaction using a QCDEED and perhaps an estoppel letter or similar doc.

But when it comes down to it, I might be too chicken to do it.

After determining that I was a 1099 with only 1.5 years work experience, the loan officer quickly shared a look that made that oh so delicious chicken biscuit want to come right out where it previously entered.After searching through every loop hole, we came across the conclusion that there was nothing this bank could do to get me in the door.  

They guard our goats and chickens from the coyotes.