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