• theangryseal@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    My dad’s construction job was working for my mom’s brother for next to minimum wage. Not that it matters.

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      42 minutes ago

      A minimun wage construction job? Someone is lying to you. Dad was probably working the glory hole at kwik-e-mart. No bank is going to give a house loan to someone making minimum wage.

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        37 minutes ago

        Well, they did.

        As a matter of fact they gave my parents multiple loans until it exceeded the value of the house so badly that we couldn’t keep up with it.

        They did this so many times for so many people in my neighborhood that the place is now nearly rubble because of it. Oh, and that kind of irresponsible lending led to the 2008 collapse.