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When no home is affordable, where do you live?

A guest post from Dave Marston and Writers on the Range

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Jonathan P. Thompson
Oct 18, 2022
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By Dave Marston, Writers on the Range

It’s a common story: Candace McNatt of Durango, in southern Colorado, kept losing bidding wars to buy a house. She finally settled on a tiny home of just 350 square feet.

McNatt works as an operating room nurse and is a single mother of two teenagers, one about to go to college. Though she landed on the home ownershi…

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