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