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DemocratSinceBirth

(99,708 posts) Sat Oct 10, 2015, 09:29 AM Oct 2015

Saw "99 Homes"

It was about the foreclosure crisis and the toll it takes on families. It was interesting and poignant because it was set in Orlando and I lost my home there during The Great Recession. It is painful losing one's home but I had an attorney who bought me two years so I had a lot of time to think about leaving before I had to completely give up the ghost. I was long gone before the sheriff physically evicts you.

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Saw "99 Homes" (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Oct 2015 OP

I feel for you having lost your home. leftofcool Oct 2015 #1

I also lost my business, savings, car, and investments in the Great Recession... DemocratSinceBirth Oct 2015 #2

And yet, you have you and her and you will move on and build yourself back up. leftofcool Oct 2015 #5

Less is more UCmeNdc Oct 2015 #3

That is exactly what a bankruptcy attorney told me... DemocratSinceBirth Oct 2015 #4

And that is true! leftofcool Oct 2015 #6

Except DeNiro's character was referring to people too... DemocratSinceBirth Oct 2015 #7

leftofcool

(19,460 posts)

1. I feel for you having lost your home.

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Sat Oct 10, 2015, 09:42 AM

Oct 2015

On the other hand, I am not sure home "ownership" is what it is cracked up to be. There is no longer that "stigma" for people who rent and I honestly think that in some ways renting makes more practical sense if the 21st century especially for young people and even for people in middle age.

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,708 posts)

2. I also lost my business, savings, car, and investments in the Great Recession...

Reply to leftofcool (Reply #1)

Sat Oct 10, 2015, 09:44 AM

Oct 2015

If I would have lost my girlfriend then I would have been irretrievably lost.

leftofcool

(19,460 posts)

5. And yet, you have you and her and you will move on and build yourself back up.

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Reply #2)

Sat Oct 10, 2015, 09:52 AM

Oct 2015

So many lost so much. The people not affected by the recession were people like me, late 50's early 60's, very close to retirement, living in the same home for 27 years etc.... But, we all know people who lost a great deal and I sympathize because there but for the grace of the goddess, it could have been me.