Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Homes For Sale - Foreclosures and Barbarians

As foreclosures increase, and homes for sale are so abundant that the buyers savvy enough to grab them up today stand to make a fortune down the road, it is amazing that there is so much animal like behavior among the poor fools who could not afford to keep their dreams. Like savages in a cave, these barbarians are trashing the homes before lending institutes can retain possession and carry out the eviction.

Examples include pouring oil and paint on carpets, smashing pretty much everything with crow bars and aluminum baseball bats, urinating and defecating on the floor (humans and pets), slaughtering farm animals...INSIDE, and numerous other atrocities that will not be mentioned here.

Behold the human condition in real estate. It seems we are devolving into sadistic sub humans who cannot control our tempers. This is evident on the roads, in relationships, but for this case we are discussing homes for sale and real estate in general.

Lending institutes have resorted to bribing foreclosed home dwellers to abstain from barbarically destroying the home before eviction. Some, however, go a step further, and hire "home bodyguards" to intimidate the homeowner in a nonthreatening manner to leave without doing damage. They frequently will use large burly men to look the home dweller (no longer a owner) in the eye and "suggest" that is is not a smart move to do anything foolish. This has actually paid off for lending institutes and is becoming more prevalent than the old tactic of bribing.

Alas, we live in hard times as anyone with a home for sale will attest.

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