My first tenant was through Section 8, and each year I was spending money to fix holes in the walls and abuse to the appliances so that the unit could pass the annual inspection.

It's hard to beat the vynle tile, seems like it can really take some abuse.

I'll rent a bus and ship them your way!

New ideas emerge during a prolonged campaign.

I personally hate the fact that I am collecting but I not abusing the system.

From my perception - which I will admit is only that, and I am happy to be wrong - the bailout only prolongs the collapse.

Apart from the difference in the negative effeft on her credit rating "short sale is like being hit by a bus; foreclosure is like being hit by a train" what else can I tell her in the hope that it will knock some sense into her?

Right now all the government is doing is prolonging and increasing the pain we will eventually feel (if you are not feeling it enough now).

Caitlyn, wow, I feel abused, I am not connected with BP in any way and I don't feel I was "soliciting" donations in any way.

It sounds good and we've 'learned' from the depression but it still ultimately won't work as the decision makers won't know the reasons for this current crisis until at least 5 years after it's over.I have to disagree with Aaron, and many others, though; instead of massive inflation, I believe we're in, and going to stay in, a prolonged period of deflation.