CATEGORY:  Subprime mortgage scandal

Headline:  Forestall foreclosure by selling your home one room at a time

Help-U-Subdivide has proposed an innovative way for homeowners to turn a crisis into a revenue opportunity:  selling your home one room at a time to offset rising mortgage payments.  Some local officials have praised the strategy as an innovative way to create much needed affordable housing.  One local mortgage broker called it a "win-win-win."

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