I had just lost everything after being stuck for $ 104,000 in a construction project which I never was able to recover from.

Oh, and there was a LOT of them, most of which will never recover. 

Other times of the year - if you find out your tenant is recovering from a surgery, have a flower delivery service drop off a $30 "get well" flowers - just did that one this week.

People forget about the human toll of financial downturns which many families struggle to recover from for years and years after the GDP readings say the recession is over.

Even further, they offload that risk by selling the future promise to someone else, or recover that non-existent money from someone else if the note isn't paid (Freddie, Fannie, Ginnie).

Once you recover your "cost to control", you are making a profit from that point forward (as long as you keep the positive CF), and now it cost you nothing to control it.Who pays the rest of the sale price? 

It is nice having some credit that doesn't show up on my personal credit report, and I'm hoping that moving some of my credit card debt onto those cards will help my score recover.

Did people move away because they thought local industries would never recover or because they could find better work right away if they moved.

Paying for my mistake now and it will take me years to recover from it.  

Here's a nice one he mentioned: To recover attorney's fees in an eviction suit, a landlord must give a tenant who is unlawfully retaining possession of the landlord's premises a written demand to vacate the premises.