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Foreclosed Homes Occupied by Homeless
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| 2/18/08
| THOMAS J. SHEERAN
Posted on 02/19/2008 5:09:08 AM PST by Libloather
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To: Libloather
AP rewriting "Grapes of Wrath."
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Homeless occupying abandoned homes: The invisible hand at work?
To: the invisib1e hand
"Homeless occupying abandoned homes: The invisible hand at work?" Looks more like a perfectly visible hand to me -- palm up.
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posted on
02/19/2008 5:18:29 AM PST
by
Joe Brower
(Sheep have three speeds: "graze", "stampede" and "cower".)
To: Libloather
So they don’t like homeless shelter because of the rules.
*roll eyes*
Too bad...
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posted on
02/19/2008 5:23:29 AM PST
by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
To: Joe Brower
Don’t worry, Obama will make it all right. He’ll give these homes to the homeless. It will be perfect.
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posted on
02/19/2008 5:23:39 AM PST
by
Travis McGee
(---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
To: Travis McGee
"It will be perfect." Heh. Good mornin', Trav. Perfect -- oh yeah. A regular Workers Paradise.
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posted on
02/19/2008 5:28:04 AM PST
by
Joe Brower
(Sheep have three speeds: "graze", "stampede" and "cower".)
To: Libloather
With his nice leather jacket you can tell hes Uptown Homeless William Reed is no cheap country bum dressing in layers of sweat pants and a plastic trash bag overcoat held together with safety pins who hangs out under a bridge overpass with a sixpack. Still, with his busy schedule even an Uptowner like William has no time to floss.
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posted on
02/19/2008 5:29:46 AM PST
by
bvw
To: Libloather
"....There are risks for squatters, including fires from using candles and confrontations with drug dealers, prostitutes, copper thieves or police...Because, as we all know, police occupy the same moral plane as drug dealers and are just as dangerous, /sarc.
To: Libloather
This is a shame because the damage done by the squatters will affect the ones whose homes are in foreclosure. If I had a home in foreclosure I would make every effort to keep it intact until the next owner took possession.
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posted on
02/19/2008 6:16:49 AM PST
by
whipitgood
(Neither of, by, or for the people any longer...)
To: whipitgood
We got a close up look at whole neighborhoods of empty homes in northern Florida last week.
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posted on
02/19/2008 6:21:52 AM PST
by
Eric in the Ozarks
(ENERGY CRISIS made in Washington D. C.)
To: Eric in the Ozarks
Do tell Eric. Were you shopping for a home, just visiting, or what? Why do you think they were empty?
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posted on
02/19/2008 6:31:24 AM PST
by
whipitgood
(Neither of, by, or for the people any longer...)
To: Libloather
In Texas, many of those foreclosed homes are being stripped of all copper wiring, kitchen cabinets, built-in appliances, bathroom vanities and tubs...anything that can be resold.
It seems that the banks will have to completely refurbish or bulldoze some previously nice homes, which is a foolish way to run a business. It would have been much more cost-effective to keep the occupants in with a reduced monthly mortgage payment.
To: kittymyrib
Appears to me that there is a golden opportunity to create a new business simply checking foreclosed houses for squatters. $75.00-$100.00 buck a month per home for a daily physical check to see if entry has been made. 25-50 house checks daily....hmmm.
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posted on
02/19/2008 7:26:43 AM PST
by
politicalwit
(AKA... A Tradition Continues...Now a Hoosier Freeper)
To: whipitgood
Wife's grandmother bought a lot in a subdivision back in the 80s for $2500./ She died at age 108 about five years ago and wife inherited the lot. Over the past few years, we'd received postcards from real estate people wanting to buy. We didn't sell because we had never seen the property.
When we got down there, we saw entire neighborhoods of locked up empty homes in the subdivision. As we got out of the car to look at the lot, a security guard pulled up to ask what we were doing there. He was hired by the bank to keep an eye out for squatters.
The bubble really popped in n. Florida...
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posted on
02/19/2008 7:43:22 AM PST
by
Eric in the Ozarks
(ENERGY CRISIS made in Washington D. C.)
To: Travis McGee
Dont worry, Obama will make it all right. Hell give these homes to the homeless. It will be perfect. Then, in the near future, there will be the 'Homeless home heating crisis'. The homeless occupying homes will not be able to afford the heating bill.
To: All
In my remarks above, some may see mockery. I mean, I see it myself. Here I am, comfortable and warm in a cozy place. With family, friends and resources. So harsh it is to so mock a fellow human who may have honestly been set back on hard times.
Yet I know men like William, and in seeing him I think of them -- they are homeless because the condition suits their way of getting by in life. They are able men -- even some of them physically mighty. They can work they have smarts. Yet if life can be had by begging and living "free" they will do it.
Helping them stay in that near-feral condition is no help to them or us. When we gift them leather jackets, that "gift" enables them to sleep in the streets or woods or under bridges most nights -- better they have clothing that forces them into our city's caring places where we charge them only some acclimation towards being a civilized man for the comfort.
Treat them like the men they are.
William, see a dentist.
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posted on
02/19/2008 9:08:22 AM PST
by
bvw
To: Eric in the Ozarks
Do you believe that all those homes were vacated by people who bought, but couldn’t afford, the homes? The whole neighborhood is in foreclosure?
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posted on
02/19/2008 11:33:11 AM PST
by
whipitgood
(Neither of, by, or for the people any longer...)
To: whipitgood
It certainly looked that way. In one block with 12 homes, 10 were empty with the real estate padlocks on the door, yards not cared for. It was an eye opener for me.
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posted on
02/19/2008 12:04:48 PM PST
by
Eric in the Ozarks
(ENERGY CRISIS made in Washington D. C.)
To: whipitgood
I might add, we saw two or three homes that had been “started” but were only partially complete with roofs and shingles but no windows or sheetrock.
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posted on
02/19/2008 12:07:23 PM PST
by
Eric in the Ozarks
(ENERGY CRISIS made in Washington D. C.)
To: Libloather
I’m not sure what my PC response should be to this article. Do I go with the mean banks foreclosing on poor consumers response or the thank goodness the homeless have been helped response?
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