Hi Don, Thank you for your input although I found it mildly insulting.

They also remained flat from 2002 to 2005 after the mild recession of 2001.

I once helped a buddy do something like this, he left the water shut offs inside the house and built a "closet" outside that was big enough for the W/D and even put a small shelf for detergents etc and a hanger pole for convenience.

My mom has used borax laundry detergent for years.

(My brother asked them whether their hot sauce was their mild sauce!)

Oh, and to answer the original question, it was a mildly interesting read but has nothing to do with real estate investing at all.

Even a mild recesssion is considered a failure of government.

Bryan, there clearly were MAJOR PROBLEMS (to put it mildly) with the ratings agency industry - both on an individual firm level and an industry-wide level.Going forward, their ratings will contain more suspicion.

I'm still waiting on the original Guaranteed Rate rep to call me back on what her proposal is through Flagstar.The entanglements between these brokers, mtg bankers, loan wholesalers, ultimate investors, GSE's, and finally.. servicers is labyrinthine to put it mildly.

We are in the same boat, 2 weeks, 3 showings, one mildly interested.