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 remarkable ability to qualify for loans begin to freeze up too. The worst part for us was, they were in the real estate business, and we were treated to our incomes in order to seriously drop. We never imagined we'd have collection agencies calling, but call, they did. Within end, we...