As the housing market began to slide three years ago, my wife we began to sense that we were losing our places. As people lose the value they always believed they been on their homes, their options in their capability to qualify for loans begin to freeze up of course. The worst part for us was, we were in the real estate business, and we saw our incomes to help seriously drop. We never imagined we'd have collection agencies calling, but call, they did. In the end, we needed to pick one of two op...