Foreclosed Homes

Pedophile Pediatrician's Foreclosed Home Gets No Bids At Auction

Posted 05.16.2012

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For some, a home's former owner can haunt the property forever. The foreclosed former home of Earl Bradley, a pedophile pediatrician, didn’t net...

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Voters In One Town Want Banks To Pay Big Time For Neglecting Foreclosed Homes

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 05.12.2012

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If San Diego voters had their way, banks would be paying out, big time. Seventy percent of San Diegans who responded to an opinion poll conducted l...

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PHOTOS: Protestors Collect Trash From Foreclosure, Deliver To Bank

Posted 05.07.2012

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Neighbors from Liberty City rallied together Thursday to gather trash at an abandoned, foreclosed home and then deliver the garbage to a downtown bran...

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'They're Mad At The Bank, So They Take It Out On The House'

Posted 04.29.2012

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Home owners who have had their houses taken away in foreclosure sometimes take their anger out on the houses themselves. WTEV reports on a foreclos...

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Turning Foreclosures Into Rentals, The Federal Reserve Way

AP | Posted 04.06.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The Federal Reserve has issued policy guidelines for banks turning foreclosed homes they own into rentals, a trend that could help boost...

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Loren Berlin

Why Renting Is Better Than Owning, Bernanke's Take

HuffingtonPost.com | Loren Berlin | Posted 01.06.2012

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While millions of foreclosed homes languish on the market at lower and lower prices, new data supports the idea that renting out these foreclosed home...

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Ordinance Would Give Banks A Break On Foreclosed Properties

Posted 12.18.2011

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Just one week after five Chicago women were arrested while protesting the decrepit conditions of bank-owned vacant homes that they say bring crime int...

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Swiss Banker's Reaction to U.S. Treasury Hiding A.I.G. Loss

Iris Mack | Posted 05.25.2011

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Iris Mack

Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan are being subsidized by the Federal Reserve. Why can't the Fed instead subsidize Americans who want a job? How stupid do they think the American taxpayer is?

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Banks To Allow Local Groups To Buy Foreclosed Homes Before Speculators

AP | ALAN ZIBEL | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Major banks are agreeing to give local governments and nonprofit groups the ability to buy foreclosed homes before they are sold to...

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Federal Agenices Say They're Probing Foreclosure Problems...But Lenders Are Resuming Foreclosures

AP | PETE YOST | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — A federal law enforcement official says the FBI is in the initial stages of trying to determine whether the financial industry may ...

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Nonprofits Unable To Keep Up With Growing Suburban Poverty, New Reports Say

Posted 05.25.2011

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The national recession has had a suffocating impact on the middle class, with high rates of unemployment, home foreclosure and other hardships pushing...

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5 Areas Where 'House Flipping' Is Booming Once Again (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011

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At least one of the risky money-making schemes from the pre-crisis era has resumed in full force. As Bloomberg noted yesterday, house flipping -- the...

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House Flipping Is BACK: Sales Of Foreclosed Homes Booming In Crisis Hotspots Like Las Vegas, Arizona

bloomberg.com | Phrashant Gopal | Posted 05.25.2011

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In Phoenix, 4,661 foreclosed homes changed hands within six months of being purchased in 2009, an increase of 81 percent from the year earlier, accord...

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Foreclosures: 'Worst Three Months Of All Time'

CNNMoney.Com | Les Christie | Posted 05.25.2011

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Despite concerted government-led and lender-supported efforts to prevent foreclosures, the number of filings hit a record high in the third quarter, a...

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Homeowners Left In Limbo As Banks Delay Foreclosure

washingtonpost.com | Renae Merle | Posted 05.25.2011

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A growing number of American homeowners are falling into financial limbo: They're badly behind on payments, but their banks have not yet foreclosed. ...

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Foreclosed Homes May Become Hurricane Shelters

AP | LISA ORKIN EMMANUEL | Posted 05.25.2011

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MIAMI — Trying to make the best of a bad situation, federal officials might use foreclosed homes as temporary housing for hurricane evacuees in Flor...

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Another Midnight Run: Foreclosure Crisis Hits Close to (my) Home

Esther J. Cepeda | Posted 05.25.2011

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Esther J. Cepeda

This is what foreclosure feels like from the outside. All of a sudden, trusted neighbors whose children I was watching grow up are gone and all that's left is a littered, empty home.

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Photos Of The Foreclosed: Bobcats, Protesters And Roseanne, Oh My!

Matthew Palevsky | Posted 05.25.2011

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The story of America's housing crisis often ends up being told in a stream of numbers -- hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt, thousands of forecl...

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Housing Values Drop, Sting Bank Stocks

Wall Street Journal | James R. Hagerty and Jonathan Karp | Posted 05.25.2011

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The steep losses on sales of foreclosed homes are painful for banks and investors in the short run but should help clear the backlog. That would allow...

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