1.15.2011

But they're banks, so it doesn't count

Bank walkaways add to housing crisis - chicagotribune.com

A new type of property is adding to neighborhood blight: the bank walkaway....

Abandoned foreclosures are increasing as mortgage investors determine that, at sale, they can't recoup the costs of foreclosing, securing, maintaining and marketing a home, and they sometimes aren't completing foreclosure actions. The property, by then usually vacant, becomes another eyesore in limbo along blocks where faded signs still announce block clubs.

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