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Old 05-30-2025, 12:31 PM
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As I understand it when the father-son Schwartz-Morse team started out local appraisers and banks would not value the homes or grant adequate mortgages on them based on the relatively high prices at which homes were to be sold. To solve this problem they started their own bank.
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