I helped a friend who was going to lose her house so she didn't. . . right then. But her kids were in private school (Catholic) and she wanted them to stay there (and couldn't afford it) so she ended up losing the house anyway a couple years later! But it all came out wonderfully. She kept paying me back and I even lent her more money for her daughter's wedding and now everyone is doing extremely well and she and her husband and me and my husband get together once a month for dinner out :-) Things do work out well in the long run usually, if we let them.