The Housing Bubble Blog

It's Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. "Ari and William Morel are homeowners and grandparents who hope to save their home from foreclosure after becoming victims of what they consider to be a predatory loan. The Morels, whose troubles began in 2006 when Will lost his job as a bank...

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A guest post by NYCityBoy Bloggers love to sit on blogs and discuss what is going on in the world. We read the garbage being pumped out by the mainstream media and critique their objectivity. I believe most of us believe that their efforts are juvenile, disingenuous and in general a complete joke....

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by Ahansen For those of us born in the immediate aftermath of WW2, the knowledge that we were a demographic phenomenon was never far from our awareness. As our teachers and the popular press of the day constantly pointed out, our numbers overwhelmed the American school system, forced a...

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-by the Mysterious Flying Miser Quite a few readers of this blog have recently posed the question “Where the hell is Ben Jones, and what the hell is he doing all day long?” Well, I woke him up early one morning and interviewed him to find out. According to him, he’s been working on his new...

-by the Mysterious Flying Miser Kermit Arnold, a 47-year-old business consultant from McLean, Virginia, has been living in his condo for 8 months without making a single mortgage payment, but his lender has yet to kick him out. He purchased the condo in 2004, but couldn’t keep up with the $2400...

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It's Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. "The house across the street from Hartnell College wasn't Daniel Eyde's dream home. When he bought it in 2005, the Salinas house was a place to live and an investment. But it was also the place where he grew up. It was part of his retirement plan, a...

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The Orlando Sentinel reports from Florida. "Central Florida's flood of foreclosures is swamping one of the area's fastest-growing minority groups. That's because Hispanic homebuyers, as the nationwide housing bubble expanded and then deflated earlier this decade, wound up with a disproportionate...

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A post from a guest blogger: Suddenly last summer... Exactly one year ago this morning, I found myself strapped into a rescue helicopter en route to UCLA Medical Center. It had been a little over an hour since a predatory black bear attempted to make a lunch of me, and I was determined to make it...

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CBS 4 reports from Colorado. "There were about 65,000 foreclosures in Colorado last year, according to Ideal Homes, an Aurora-based company that tries to help people avoid foreclosure. While many homeowners feel that they have no other options but to walk away, this company...specializes in what...

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