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Hi, I'm calling because in October of last year, my husband and I made the dumb,

dumb, dumb decision of taking out a bridge loan to purchase a property.

And it was with the idea that we would sell our previous property and pay off

the loan, restructure the loan, and everything would be great. But we haven't been able to sell

our old property and the loan is due on June 1st. Interest has accrued, like nobody's business.

Oh, man.

What was the interest rate?

And then what was the amount?

So the total, they combined both properties, came out to 1.437 at 10.99.

So we're looking at 13.

10.99?

Yeah.

So apparently bridge loans, they explained to us, are always high interest like this.

They're anywhere between 8 and 12.

Man.

They even explained it to you and you guys said, sign us up.

Let's do it.

Well, that's how confident we were that we could sell our old house. Why isn't it

selling? That's the million dollar question. We've knocked it, you know, the price down a couple

times now. We are technically under contract, but our buyers cannot seem to lock in a buyer

themselves. And when they keep telling us, the market is just

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