Foreclosures category archives

Foreclosures are still a problem in Las Vegas, and one of those foreclosures is now allegedly LaToya Jackson’s problem.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports, “A Las Vegas condo she purchased in 1996 for about $260,000 is in default with an unpaid balance of $750,000, according to documents filed in the Clark County recorder’s office.”
The condo is [...]

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Losing your home to foreclosure is bad enough, but to lose it because you were a victim of Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme and then to learn a top bank executive is allegedly using it as a party house?
Harsh.
The Los Angeles Times reported this morning that Cheronda Guyton, a Wells Fargo senior [...]

Anyone out there with specific information on foreclosures in California? carmen25 asks in Zillow Advice:
Foreclosure process in California: What happens after the home has been sold to the beneficiary?…

Two years ago, we wrote that foreclosures help to spread the West Nile Virus. How? When abandoned homes with swimming pools are left with water in it, untended, it creates the perfect breeding ground for mosquitoes that carry the virus.
This problem is still making the news. According to The Californian.com, a second dead bird in [...]

Jose and Denise Flores of Ashland, OH are facing foreclosure on Aug. 24 and they are not alone – their five tigers may be put out as well. The Ohio couple runs the Tiger Paw Exotic Rescue Center on their one-acre property and has worked with exotic animals for 20 years. The animals reside [...]

Lisa Wu Hartwell, one of the stars of the Bravo reality show “Real Housewives of Atlanta,” and her husband, former Oakland Raiders linebacker Edgerton Hartwell,  have lost their Atlanta home to foreclosure, according to TMZ.com.
After defaulting on their home at 7865 Saint Marlo Fairway Dr, Duluth  GA 30097, which they originally purchased for $2.9 million [...]

Not only is Dr. Conrad Murray being investigated in connection with pop star Michael Jackson’s shocking death at this Holmby Hills home on June 25, but Dr. Murray is also facing foreclosure, according to USA TODAY.
Dr. Murray’s home at 2426 Grassy Spring Pl, Las Vegas, NV 89135 (source: Las Vegas Review-Journal) is part of Vegas’ [...]

This is one of those odd foreclosure stories that will have a nice ending and possibly create a new career for Angela Logan, a Teaneck, NJ woman who is an actress and divorced mother of three. In a creative measure to save her house from foreclosure, Logan held a bake sale with her goal to [...]

Tap012 started quite a buzz with this Zillow Advice thread titled,
“CA home buying frenzy continues — Orange County house gets 135 bids.”
It looks like a Garden Grove, CA home sold for $760K at the peak of the boom, then went on the market this year for $386,100. In three days, 135 buyers entered bids and [...]

According to reports out of Atlanta, former heavyweight boxing champion Evander Holyfield has avoided foreclosure — again. His sprawling, 54,000-sq ft home, located on Evander Holyfield Way in Fairburn, GA, was to be auctioned off today, July 7.
The article states Holyfield has worked out a deal with mortgage holder JP Morgan Chase and he [...]