You deserve to lose your money.  

But, at second brush, it seems to me like the only properties for which an owner would ask for excess proceeds were the properties I was going to lose to shrew investors anyway.

I'm uncertain how this will affect home sales - if people overextended themselves on a mortgage and lose their $400k to $500k salary, they may need to sell.

Step three is learning how not to lose it. 

Also, the credits are "use them or lose them" - meaning, if you pay $12k a month for a 100,000 skips, then you have to use them all that month.

There are no quarterly reports. 2024 q1 and q2 are over and the storage fund has not issued any distributions because the income statement is losing cash.

I would start there and think of anything that I could do to stay in the house for a while as it sounds like you would be losing a bit of money with the other options. 

How do I increase my worth to someday be about to acquire the farm I want but also be prepared to lose my job?

With sports betting being so accessible through apps, it’s easy for people to lose track of how much they’re spending.

With real estate, you have to make sure each property is functioning at full capacity or you’ll be losing money.You can analyze properties and be pretty sure (as long as you don't rationalize bad deals into good ones) what your numbers will be.