“We have become a nation incapable of living within ourmeans. We seem incapable of accepting the reality that owning ahome is not and never was intended to be a right. It is a reward forworking hard and saving up enough money to not only purchase aproperty, but to maintain and improve it.”

Ziad K. Abdelnour
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