MY NEPHEW SPIT IN MY FOOD WHILE MY WHOLE FAMILY LAUGHED—SO I STOPPED PAYING THEIR MORTGAGE.
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Chapter 10 - THE HOUSE WASN'T ABOUT TO BE LOST
Margaret had said:
“The payment is due.”
Everyone acted as if canceling Rachel’s transfer would cause immediate foreclosure.
It would not.
Margaret had:
$42,000 in savings,
Social Security income,
a small pension,
and investment income.
She could make the payment.
Barely comfortably.
The emergency was not losing the house.
The emergency was losing the family subsidy.
That revelation changed Rachel’s anger.
Margaret was not helpless.
She had chosen to keep Rachel paying because it preserved her own savings.
Meanwhile Lauren, Derek, and Eric made only occasional contributions.
Rachel asked:
“Why me?”
Margaret answered:
May you like
“Because you could.”
That phrase became the whole problem.
