Woman’s story illustrates how foreclosure hits homes

ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich. At 14, Joan Cyman hauled wood and clutched a hammer with her father to build a deck on the back of their house. Also Online Foreclosure primer: What to expect, where to get help It was one of many projects to turn the already attractive four-bedroom, three bathroom suburban house into a home. She was 12 in 1976 when they left a rough neighborhood in Detroit to be among the first families on the cul-de-sac in the gleaming new subdivision.

It was like a family home, she said. I felt like it was left to me and should have stayed there the rest of my life. It didn t. Joan Cyman At 41, Cyman is 145 miles north in rural Roscommon County, trying to put her life back together after losing her home to foreclosure in 2006.

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