Posted on 12/11/2007 3:10:16 PM PST by IowaHawk
An Iowahawk Economy Alert-o-Gram
By David Burge
The sub-prime mortgage crisis threatens to kill the dream of home ownership for millions of Americans. Here is one of their stories.
As many of you know, I am a longtime resident of Lakewood Mobile Home Court, a gated community on the outskirts of Coralville. When I first moved to Lakewood in 2000, I was attracted by its affordable rental rates and many amenities, such as ample streetside parking, easy access to I-80, and a quiet, low-surveillance wooded area in which to store my automobiles and train my beloved sport dogs. At the time it seemed an ideal neighborhood in which to raise the various children the Iowa courts have assigned me financial support. Here was a place they could run and play carefree, while I relaxed with a drink and conversation with friendly new neighbors like Kyle and Chuck.
After several years of living in the community, however, I began to notice a change. Trash and beer cans and dog waste mysteriously began to pile up. Formerly friendly neighbors became suspicious and wary, and I was saddened to realize they were locking their trailers while away at work. Worse yet, crime skyrocketed, in large part due to the gangs of unsupervised juveniles that roamed the streets and woods. As a concerned parent, with several children facing Iowa's draconian "three strikes" sentencing guidelines, I realized that I needed to get them out of this environment but I didn't know how. Like millions of Americans I dreamed of home ownership, but it remained elusive. Early Sunday mornings I would drive slowly through Majestic Oakewoods, the new luxury housing development on the other side of the woods, with my headlights off, wistfully thinking: "someday... someday."
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Nice Mullet!
PS: I'm still laughing over the Hugh Hewitt piece.
Thanks for that!
Hilarious! Luv that pic, too!
ping!
Pretty funny, nice job!
Hillarious.
ping for later humorous read
Urgent call to help save Castle Iowahawk.
Please add me to your Iowahawk pinglist. I love his his articles.
Knew I forgot to ping someone . . .
I’m crying. Hilarious! And sad...
OK, I'm convinced. Where do I send the moolah?
Sweet; but I will tell you that local donut shops are always better than KK. Go into KK and ask for an apple fritter.
I think this is only an Iowa City problem, maybe Hawkeye fans are to blame?
Here in the central part of the state we don’t have those issues..
classic
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