Comments on: Phoenix: Home Strippers Beware

By: Linenoise

Linenoise — Mon, 18 May 2009 18:16:51 +0000

Ok, I’m disappointed now, I was expecting something totally different from the headline

By: toysarefun

toysarefun — Sun, 17 May 2009 22:11:24 +0000

What took them so long?, oh .. The banksters probably started whining about it. Still, the FBI is really going after the wrong people, this is small potatoes. The people doing this probably feel it is justified because they feel completely ripped off by their own stupidity, heard others were doing it so did it too. I guess, if your careful, you could strip the house, move out and say, I don’t know who did it?

By: twist

twist — Sat, 16 May 2009 01:17:07 +0000

Mortgagemess-

Some communities are going after the banks for failing to maintain properties. I agree- they should be held to the same standard as any other homeowner.

I noted though in a recent article in the Arizona Republic, a comment by an HOA president. She was saying that a number of abandoned homes in her neighborhood now were looking better since the bank foreclosed. Since banks are often not foreclosing within 90 days, it’s possible that a lot of these unmaintained homes are in limbo- abandoned by the homeowner, but not yet taken over by the bank.

I suppose the only solution for those homes is for the neighbors to team up and take care of these homes themselves.

By: AZSALUKI

AZSALUKI — Fri, 15 May 2009 20:45:50 +0000

i’ll second that. if they don’t want the costs/responsibilities with owning the homes they take back then they really need to start auctioning them off WITH NO minimum required bids. that’ll also get to the true bottom of the prices.

By: mortgagemess

mortgagemess — Fri, 15 May 2009 20:39:12 +0000

The problem that I have with the above situation is who is going after the banks? Great so you arrest 5 or 6 people..what about the HUNDREDS of EMPTY foreclosed homes in my city that are NOT secured? NOT maintained? NOT paid up in dues for HOA’s? These lenders who are now OWNERS of these homes should get arrested to as well..they bring down the community/neighborhood/city from the outside in! I have to drive by these homes each and everyday..