What a sucker I am, eh? I missed a great opportunity! [View All]

[MineralMan]

It seems that I wasted a whole bunch of money. You see, I paid the house off that I bought back in 1974, then used the proceeds from its sale to buy the house I now own. Lots of money changed hands. I paid a mortgage off completely on that previous house, and now I own my current one, free and clear.

Now I find out that, according to the "expert" from some random website, that I shouldn't have bothered. I could have just bought the house I'm living in now, stopped paying the mortgage and it would just be given to me, since the mortgage companies have been screwing up the paperwork and all that. So, I guess I wasted $175,000 that I could still have if I had just stopped paying my mortgage. I'd have my house, too, according to this "expert." I know she's an expert because she wrote a whole book about it. She's also written a bunch of books about alternative medications and how women could go through menopause without any problems if they just take the right herbs and stuff. Experts like that are really, really hard to find. Who is this remarkable expert?

It's Ellen Hodgson Brown, and she has a whole website about all her many "expert" books. She has a blog, too, at http://webofdept.wordpress.com, so you know she's really, really smart and like that. It's not like just anyone can have a blog, you know. www.ellenbrown.com is her website, and you can go there and buy her books and save yourself from being a sucker like me. She's a writer, so you know she knows her stuff. She's written books, so you know she must be right.

So, I'm a sucker, I guess. I believed that old crap about paying back the money I borrowed and owning my home free and clear.

Now I'm old, and don't really have time to buy another house and not pay for it, then get it free. It sucks getting old and missing all those new opportunities, huh? Don't be a sucker like me! Get a free house! Yessiree! Come back and tell us how it all worked out for you.