Posted on 09/24/2009 6:45:15 AM PDT by Portnoy
Good point.
Funny movie from a while back - “Moving” with Richard Pryor, Dana Carvey about a family moving to Boise, ID from NJ.
No doubt this thugess also lived in the house for perhaps up to a year after stopping payments. Mooch and a thief.
got a friend doing the same thing, shortly after he started he saw how much stuff people were leaving and started selling the stuff on ebay.
he now has a second hand store selling all the stuff his company has hauled out of houses.
You can't have stuff that's not yours!
“latest “trend”: people in foreclosed homes are stripping them bare “
Not new, but of course to the lamestream media it is. They never have any full story when it happens and then they get it wrong.
ALL of the homes we looked at this year to buy were stripped. All. We looked at over 50 homes. Not one wasn’t missing appliances, cabinets, even the toilets in some cases. Million dollar homes stripped by either the owner or thieves.
I needed an appliance part and went to Appliance Factory Outlet on Sante Fe drive in Denver. Backed up to their loading docks were Mexicans and yuppies alike selling what was no doubt their ill gotten gains. I was approached to buy appliances at ten to thirty cents on the dollar.
“supergluing lightbulbs into the sockets”
That happened to the house we are in right now. The previous owner was foreclosed on.
She is exactly correct. However, liberal socialists in power pretty much forced the banks to do this under "minority homeownship" laws and anti-red lining laws. Expect banks to never lend money to the likes like you anymore in the future. And no complaining about it.
I thought it interesting that he removed ALL the appliances, even some barely a year old, and hauled them away.
Not asking yet (that will come later) but I think he must have hit some mold.
He'd been far ahead in this game if the last owner had gutted the house as he left.
stupid is as stupid does.
by stripping out the fixtures, these people are reducing the value of the house and increasing the debt they will STILL OWE after the bank sells the property.
I bought a brand new house and the appliances were part of a package.
New fridge. washer dryer, all major appliances were part of the package. I took all this stuff when I bought my current house. I took everything that I could unplug. I did not take things that were permenantly wired in. (dishwasher, oven)
I got a neighbor that does the same thing. However, you friend needs to change the name of his service to get with the 21st century, it is now called “home remediation services”!!!!
You ought to see all the crap he puts into garage sales, stuff left behind by those evicted. Everything from tools to appliances. The banks do not care and have told him so, they just want the property presentable.
If it was in the house when you bought it and it helped to establish the price you paid then it is a fixture and part of the house.
There is wiggle room on the Frig, Washer & Dryer.
****extreme individualism****
So now you are labeling theft and destruction of property “extreme individualism”?
Sounds like a commie catch phrase.
Just because it’s legal doesn’t mean it’s moral. I agree with the other posters. Jerks like this probably wouldn’t be in the home in the first place without taxpayers backing the loan. Don’t worry, if the bank goes bankrupt due to all the bad loans and destruction to the homes, we’ll get to bail them out, too. Of course, the bank might also survive with a smaller cut for investors, but who cares about them, right?
This sort of stuff is way beyond ridiculous, and I’m tired of footing the bill. So long as these losers have the right to reach into our pockets to pay for their misdeeds, we’ll continue a downward slide!
In the short two years of my current mortgage it has been “sold” or otherwise aquired by a different company three times.
BANKS MUST STOP MAKING LOANS TO DEADBEATS.
Being poor does not excuse lawlessness (unless you’re a socialist).
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