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Soldier no longer faces foreclosure

Jan-10-2008 » Filed Under: 3/2 SBCT , Homefront

I'm grateful that Mike Barber followed up on this story.

By MIKE BARBER, Seattle P-I

A Fort Lewis soldier who returned from stresses of war last year to the face the subprime mortgage mess threatening to foreclose on his family's dream home is now in the clear.

Sgt. Marcus Barton said some encouraging readers of a P-I story on him last month provided moral and financial assistance to keep creditors at bay.

Instead of facing foreclosure and broken finances, Barton, his wife, Sarah, who is expecting their third child, and their two sons will be able to sell their North Tacoma house to break even and later this year move to new quarters on the Army post.

"The worst is behind us. We're definitely on the upswing. Now that the stress is off we have made some decisions about what we are going to do," Barton, 34, who has served two deployments to Iraq, said Thursday.

"I love the house but it is becoming a money pit, and I'm getting deeper in debt," Barton said. So the family in on a waiting list for Fort Lewis housing -- No. 76 on the list as of this week -- and hopes to move at least to transitional Army housing by February if their quarters aren't yet available.

"The way I see it, I can make it somebody else's dream home," Barton said of the house he bought while home on leave from his first deployment to Iraq three years ago.

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