01 · Real stories
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The equity clause was buried under four conditions that would never all be met. I learned this after year two.
She stopped paying in month four. I covered six months of rent to protect my credit. We barely speak now.
Eighteen months later the property was worth forty thousand less than I paid. I was not prepared for how that would feel.
It was treatable. It would have been easier two years earlier. The fear cost me more than the diagnosis.
Sunk cost logic kept me enrolled long after I knew the degree was not right for the path I actually wanted.