Surviving the Aftermath of a Bad Mortgage: A Cautionary Tale of Buying Black in America.

How a lack of accountability in real estate nearly ruined my family, but we survived.

Louis Byrd
9 min readDec 14, 2022

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We are sold the notion homeownership is the pinnacle of the American Dream. But what happens if that dream is nothing more than a nightmare disguised as a mortgage?

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Louis Byrd

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