Where Cleveland went wrong
Story date: 2007-11-13 12:30:00
Added on: 2007-11-13 14:18:48
CNN Money - Rokakis told of a 78-year-old Cleveland woman recently saddled with an unaffordable, 30-year ARM arranged by her minister, a mortgage broker. "I asked him why," said Rokakis, "you would give an elderly woman an ARM. He said, 'She wanted the house.'" ...
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