[Farmer Dean]

35,000 to move these fools out?I’ll do it for 10k and nobody question my methods.

[muawiyah]

At one time we had several homes in the neighborhood where the owners had absconded to parts unknown.

If you have too many vacant homes around you get problems you don't want. Enterprising people cut off the locks, put in their own, called the utilities folks for a restart, and rented them out until the banks finally figured they owned something somewhere.

That took more than a year. In the meantime we had people in the homes ~ and the power and water were on.

Finally the banks took possession, sold off the properties, and speculators rehabed them and turned them around for sale to new owners.

Since the crash this area has seen a 30% renter occupancy rate crash to maybe 5%.