In 2001, Angela McClain bought a Twinsburg home for her and her four children. It was nothing fancy — a little aluminum-sided place on an 80 x 115 ft. plot. “I wanted to have property of my own,” says McClain, an inventory control clerk, “and somewhere for my kids.”
But while she’s still making mortgage payments on the $99,000 house, it turns out that what she bought is barely property of her own…
This article appears in Apr 2-8, 2008.