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Our warm weather has returned today but they say it will cool down for the rest of the week...I
noticed that the large elm tree in our front is starting to drop leaves so its getting cooler at night. We always get tons of leaves as we live at the end of the street and the wind blows them from all the other yards My son mows our lawn and it has a mulcher attachment that really eats up most of the leaves but I find it fun to rake them once in a while...makes it seem more like fall. I worked for awhile in the back, deadheading, and cleaning up the patio..I had several plants in pots that had died, annuals, so put them in the green bin..nothing more depressing than seeing dead plants
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Alan has a "lock out" scheduled today at noon....these are always sad....the sheriff has to make sure the people are out of their house and then he goes in to secure it.....we were told there was going to be as much as 5,000 foreclosures just in our area this year...I heard that Congress may vote to stop banks from foreclosing in the future....don't know how that will work.
We re keyed a house here in town over the weekend, the bank had agreed to offer the owners, cash for keys...that is, the bank gives them some money (usually several thousand) to leave, hand over the keys and leave the home in good condition....the owners took the cash and trashed the house, broke windows, smashed staircase railings, holes in walls.
I am glad we don't have our trust in banks or money..but in our Wonderful Lord and Savior.
Thanks, Dani, for the giveaway info. I certainly empathize with the people that are out of their homes. It has been a crazy year.
ReplyDeleteAnd I know where you are coming from. They say the banks won't be offering mortgages to so many people. Where does that leave the folks who are trying to sell? I don't know what is to become of this world.....
being realtors we see the results of the foreclosures up close and unpleasantly personal. Just tried to work a contract with a buyers agent who wanted to do a deal with nothing out of pocket from the buyers - seller covering their costs etc - that is exactly how this situation got started! Zero down means zero commitment also absolutely no equity so you get nothing even if you can sell it - whew I'm on my high horse now - sorry - I am sorry for the honest hardworking people for whom the economy has turned sour - but most weren't willing to save anything, got in for nothing out of pocket and walk away when it gets difficult! OK I'm back to ironing - getting my blood pressure up here! You take care - always good to see your interesting news!
ReplyDeleteHow disheartening that people can be so destructive.
ReplyDeleteI, too, agree, that home buying became way too easy for people who had little or nothing to invest. If they hadn't saved in the past, I'm sure habits didn't change for their future either. Insurance costs rising, costs of upkeep, and other rising costs all takes from the little income a person has, and it seems that the mortgage payment just isn't as important as it was to us "oldies." It's such a shame that they have to trash the place. It's no one's fault but their own. I remember when I was younger and times got hard, I just went out and found another job to catch up or to save something extra.
ReplyDeleteLOVE the poor pooch that was thrown out on the street. Can't elieve people would do that!
Cora