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$1.2 million mansion for $10K?

Posted on July 4, 2011 by

Here in Florida, the Foreclosure State, we thought we’d already cataloged every genus responsible for this plague on all our houses, from the predatory lenders to the oblivious robosigners and rocket dockets to the no-mod-for-you bank Nazis. That was, … Continue reading →

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Welcome to ‘housing purgatory’

Posted on March 28, 2011 by

I blinked twice at the figure: 638 days. That’s the average time it takes from an initial missed mortgage payment for the bank to complete foreclosure proceedings and change the locks here in Florida, the Foreclosure State. Nearly two years of free ren… Continue reading →

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