@return2ozma to News • 1 year agoGoldman is back with a 16-years-later look at the housing market crash of 2008—and finds affordability is even worse right nowfortune.comexternal-linkmessage-square25arrow-up1320arrow-down17
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minus-squareMelkathlinkfedilink35•1 year agoYup. About how old my grandpa was when he bought a plot of land, a shit ton of wood, and a shit ton of concrete and built the house that was sold to pay off his medical debt when he died…
minus-squareplz1linkEnglish18•1 year ago…fuck…that’s dark. Sorry things swung that way for your family.
minus-squareMelkathlinkfedilink8•1 year agoI lean on the word “about”. He actually illegally enlisted in the Navy during WWII when he was 16, so it was more like 20/21 when he bought the plot and materials. Ya, still dark AF. And I also don’t think its a rare family story.
Yup.
About how old my grandpa was when he bought a plot of land, a shit ton of wood, and a shit ton of concrete and built the house that was sold to pay off his medical debt when he died…
…fuck…that’s dark. Sorry things swung that way for your family.
I lean on the word “about”.
He actually illegally enlisted in the Navy during WWII when he was 16, so it was more like 20/21 when he bought the plot and materials.
Ya, still dark AF. And I also don’t think its a rare family story.