Acknowledgments

This book belongs to the buyers who picked up the phone. You told a stranger about the worst months of your life. You did it so someone you will never meet could keep their house, their savings, and their marriage. That is a rare kind of courage. Thank you.

Thank you to the searchers, operators, and investors in this community who sent me story after story, correction after correction. You made this book sharper and fairer.

And thank you to my family, who lived this book twice. Once when we lost our business. Again while I wrote about losing it. I owe you more than a page.