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If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed right now, before you forget, to get the latest posts. Thanks for visiting!Will we see Ty Pennington yelling “Bus driver move that bus” right before the auction on the court house steps for the Atlanta area Extreme Makeover ...[Read More]


Celebrity Foreclosures

A couple of celebrity names you might recognize are feeling the foreclosure pain sweeping the United States. Evander Holyfield, Ed McMahon, California Congresswoman Laura Richardson, and baseball player Jose Canseco. ----- If you enjoyed this post be sure to grab the RSS feed or get posts by ...[Read More]


In 1989 and 1990 my financial life swirled the bowl and went down the toilet, resulting in my personal bankruptcy. My shame and my disgrace, which I kept silent and my secret until 2000 when I got outed by a Washington Post reporter when she asked me, only in passing, during an interview if I had ...[Read More]


The CNN website has been running an extended series that lets you peak inside the debt situations of some American families. The continue to add more photos and profiles to their feature and it makes for some very interesting reading. Story after story is like a case study in financial situations ...[Read More]


Homeowners are continuing to look for ways to burn down the home before it gets foreclosed on. The best way is to make it look as much like an accident as possible but insurance companies are not dumb. This report from CNN shows the consequences of solving late payments with a match. As the ...[Read More]


In the UK around 123 homes will be repossessed (foreclosed) every day during 2008 as people struggle to keep up with their mortgage repayments. There were more than 2.2 million foreclosure filings on nearly 1.3 million properties reported In USA during 2007. It goes without saying that it is a ...[Read More]


Well at least that’s some are thinking of doing and it’s got the insurance industry on edge. Allstate insurance says they’ve already seen an increase nationally in arsons among homes in foreclosure. In California, the state¹s insurance division reports that the number of ...[Read More]


A Washington, D.C. mother of four daughters, ages 5, 6, 11 and 17, calmly met U.S. Marshals at the door of her two-story brick rowhouse in the 4200 block of Sixth Street SE, D.C. but neglected to mention the four decomposing bodies upstairs. The home had been foreclosed on in the spring of last ...[Read More]


  

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