As the real estate market began to slide three years ago, my wife and i also began to sense that we were losing our options. As people lose the value they always believed they had in their homes, their options in power they have to qualify for loans begin to freeze up properly. The worst part for us was, individuals were in the real estate business, and we had our incomes for you to seriously drop. We never imagined we'd have collection agencies calling, but call, they did. In the end, we needed...