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Mortgage Market Troubles May Be Knocking On Your Door

The subprime mortgage crisis has so far been nothing more than a boogeyman in your friend Joey's closet--an easy worry to forget. Yet this easily forgotten scare is now coming back to haunt the white-collar workers and upper-income real estate investors who have, so far, escaped the housing market slowdown unscathed.

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