Broke and behind in her payments, Ms. Levey expects a foreclosure notice to show up any day, followed by a visit from "the sheriff, or whoever they send to tell you to get out of your own home".
The City of Lithonia is broke and missed its insurance payment of $42,000, leaving its employees and vehicles without liability insurance, said Marcus Lloyd, the mayor pro tem.
If you're really broke, you could be paying monthly payments of zero for 20 years until the debt is gone.
"After three and a half years of not missing one payment, I was eventually broke, the business was failing, house prices were dropping," said Mr. Gilroy.
A preschool teacher and single mother, she was broke after making her mortgage and car payments.
To deter hackers without going broke, Litan suggests outsourcing the processing of payments from customers.
But now there are too many claimants for not enough future workers' payments, and the system is going broke.
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"We can't afford to go broke," Ms. Wesley said, because of a hefty mortgage and payments on their truck.
"If we go on making our payments as usual, we will be utterly broke, and that will be very soon.
