Selling a home short can stave off foreclosure
Danielle Merriweather added up all the numbers, and they didn’t look good:
* The mortgage was $1,162 a month.
* The winter gas bills ran $500 a month.
* She had four children to care for.
* And little money was coming in after the young mother lost her job as a medical biller.
“It’s not easy to come up with that kind of money when you don’t have a job,” said Merriweather, 29, who bought her home on Detroit’s west side two years ago. “I was just like, ‘Oh my God, I can’t afford this house.’”