As a Senator, HRC would spend most of her time in DC. Clinton's foundation is in NY. I assume the two houses are part of that debt.

two houses. It seems that the NY one was bought with a loan per links from MaDem which explained how they actually needed someone to guarantee the loan. I doubt they paid cash for the DC one either.

I was just correcting the idea that it was 3 houses.

Hillary was running for the Senate in the state and needed to establish residency. At that point, there were no book deals or paid speeches. Terry McAuliffe was the co-signer of their loan. So, maybe she should have said it differently, but the fact remains that when they left the WH they were millions of dollars in debt (this morning she said they owed around $12M).

Bill's main concern at that point was to make enough money to retire their debt and leave Hillary and Chelsea financially secure. Bill has repeatedly said that the men in his family didn't live past 62 and that he was on borrowed time. There's also a little known fact, Bill helped to retire the debt of staffers who also had incurred large legal bills thanks to the Whitewater witch hunt.

What I find disappointing about DU is the constant barrage of nasty posts about fellow Democrats. The kind of vituperate comments that are normally reserved for Republicans are unleashed whenever it comes to the Clintons. What's the point of frequenting a supposed Democratic site if one has to always be on the defensive? One might as well be at a RW site.

mortgage would be part of those debts. I didn't mean it as a negative and don't see how it could be that. She needed a home in NY.

I'm just tired of the constant bashing over everything.

the collateral that comes with being an ex-president.