We bought our house in 2009. It was kinda scary--there was no telling when the recovery would come, and I was working a temp job that ended the day we signed pa

We bought our house in 2009. It was kinda scary--there was no telling when the recovery would come, and I was working a temp job that ended the day we signed papers. But we had been saving for a downpayment for several years--by 2005 or so it was clear that the Great Bubble was going to end very badly, so we just hunkered down in our crummy tenement apartment and waited it out.