HousingDebt

Let's say that you owe $500,000 on the mortgage for a house that, because of the crumbling real estate market, is now worth $200,000. You can afford to make the payments -- but it feels stupid to write a check every month to make interest payments on a loan for a property worth so much less than...

So here's the deal. We're broke. Not poor, just broke. We live paycheck to paycheck and it's just rough. We can't live like this forever. It's not safe and just doesn't make sense. So we have to develop a plan. A plan for today, a plan for tomorrow.What can we do to get out of this financial mess?...