ERIN BURRUS HAS ENDURED SOME MISFORTUNE IN RECENT YEARS: After a cancer diagnosis, she lost her home
to foreclosure. Today she’s healthy again, and a stable job in sales has helped her mend her finances.
“I’m climbing my way back up,” says Burrus. One symbol of her stability is the two- bedroom home she
shares with her husband and their children in Greenwood, a solidly middle-class suburb of Indianapo-
lis. The family rents the place rather than owning their home. But it was important to Burrus that they
not be in an apartment. “I wanted to get a house with a yard for the kids, for that family atmosphere,”
she says. • Burrus’s landlord is a company called Main Street Renewal; she found out about it from her
mother, who rents a nearby home from the same outfit (and runs a thriving dress-alteration businessa’ sdlord
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DOUGLASVILLE
2672 Blowing Wind Circle
2,800 square feet
PRICE
$188,000
RENOVATIONS
$44,000
ANNUAL RENT
$23,940charlotte
BRADFIELD FARMS
9825 Coriander Court
1,874 square feet
PRICE
$198,069
RENOVATIONS
$25,238
ANNUAL RENT
$19,140