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For years, Kristy Shen and her husband, Bryce Leung, chased the dream of homeownership. Loading audio narration… “We were desperately trying to buy a house,” Shen told Business Insider.Having grown up in poverty in China, she was initially more comfortable putting money into a home than into the stock market.”My…

The image of my father that lives most clearly in my memory is this: a man in a suit, on a train platform, me, a child in my PJs, staring out the windows of our car as my mother picked him up. Loading audio narration… On reflection, I feel really…

For some founders, selling their company to an internationally recognized corporation like SC Johnson is a cause for unbridled celebration. For Monica Nassif, it was more complicated. Loading audio narration… “It’s really bittersweet,” Nassif, founder of Mrs. Meyer’s Clean Day, told Business Insider. “I had to sell my mother.”Nassif’s 93-year-old…

In 2018, Josette Chang and Alexander Nathanson bought an apartment together in Midtown East. Loading audio narration… Chang had been renting in Manhattan since moving there for graduate school, and was tired of the annual rent hikes.”Every year you get a letter from your landlord telling you how much more…