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Get your money situation straight before you start house hunting
Throughout this year and last, financial consultant Jim Stoops of the Naperville office of Charles Schwab has come away impressed by many of the 60-, 70- and even 80-year-old individuals he has counseled. These are people who decades ago took on mortgages they could afford, and viewed the houses they purchased not as places that could make them money, but in which to live and raise kids. These are the very people who now are able to weather the financial crisis without fear they will lose their homes.
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