Helping People – Jobs and Homes

Posted Sep 12th, 2009

When I was in my late teens (and married) I hatched this brilliant idea. What if we could just pay more than the normal rent until we had an amount of money placed with our landlord so that we could buy a home directly from the owner. Fantastic, I thought. Well, in theory, then it was brilliant but guess what . . . no older person that owned a home thought it was such a good idea. No one that I found.

Comments were, “Are you nuts? Why would that be in our best interest?” There were many comments at the time about age, stupidity, something for nothing and lots of expletives about me as a person. Still, I thought it was a fantastic idea.

Sometimes people and ideas are just ahead of their time. Turns out that today that idea has lots of merit and is just one of the many ways in which we, as a nation in recovery are trying to help Americans get into a home.

All that can be said is, ” . . . for everything there is a season . . . turn, turn, turn.”