Jackie Beck and her husband bought their Tempe, Arizona, home in 2008 with a $99,600 mortgage. Once they’d paid off their credit card, student loans, and car debt, they focused on their home. By making extra payments regularly and refinancing to a lower rate, they paid it off by 2012. Read more stories from Personal
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When Greg Mitchell was named Portland’s economic development director 12 years ago, the eastern waterfront was marked by a series of undeveloped, weed-strewn lots, Thompson’s Point was an industrial wasteland and the western waterfront was a barren stretch leading to the Old Port. And the collapse of the financial markets in 2008 threatened to keep