Dennis Township Committee met for its regular meeting Oct. 4 and quickly and unanimously approved two ordinances which residents and committee members had long sought to have on the books. One ordinance addresses abandoned and nuisance properties and was considered on second reading with opportunity for public comment. Foreclosure News
North Las Vegas police investigate a condemned mobile home July 20 on Orr Street where squatters lived. Jeff Scheid/View Follow @jeffscheid on Twitter Self-proclaimed activists take over a building as part of a public demonstration for Homes Not Jails, a group that advocates using vacant and abandoned housing for the homeless in San Francisco in […]
Jean Lambouths says a nearby abandoned home near her residence on Leahy Street is decaying and falling apart, and the grass hasn't been cut in years. She's lived in her home for 28 years and has watched homes in the area deteriorate. Foreclosure News
As a result of recently passed legislation to address the elimination of abandoned properties throughout New York State New Yorkers can now report vacant and abandoned properties in their communities through a hotline at the New York State Department of Financial Services . This is one component of legislation signed recently by Governor Cuomo to […]
The law signed Thursday by Gov. Andrew Cuomo threatens banks with civil penalties up to $ 500 a day for failing to maintain residential properties once they're aware of vacancies. The old law required they take responsibility following a foreclosure judgment. Foreclosure News
From the richest subdivisions of east Medford, Ore., to the poorest neighborhoods west of the railroad tracks, 436 mostly bank-owned houses sit vacant, often attracting vagrants and drug users and creating a nuisance for their neighbors. “This thing pisses me off,” says Joshua Prince, 27, pointing to a boarded-up house on Beatty Street where he’s […]
They say the squeaky wheel gets the grease, and Councilman Joe Borelli is making a lot of noise about an abandoned, dilapidated building in Tottenville that attracts all sorts of unpleasant activity. Borelli has called on the city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development, as well as the Buildings Department, to condemn and demolish the […]
On March 2, 2016, the FDIC issued clarification of their supervisory expectations of financial institutions’ risk management policies concerning the discontinuation of foreclosure proceedings, commonly referred to as “abandoned foreclosures.” Financial Institutions must establish a policy and procedure for when such decisions to abandon a foreclosure are made which address the negative impact on the […]
The 1,600-square-foot colonial with a large front porch and a gabled roof had been left for dead in recent years, its copper veins harvested at night for scrap, another victim of the foreclosure crisis. But the Greater Cleveland Habitat for Humanity, the faith-based nonprofit that builds and rehabs houses with donations and volunteer labor, is […]