Tag Archives: Ground Zero

Foreclosure Discounts Drying Up

As more investors vie for fewer foreclosed properties, prices are going up and great deals are getting scarce. Buyers of bank-owned homes in September got a 7.7 percent discount versus the same home in a non-distressed sale, according to a … Continue reading

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REAL ESTATE: Germans horrified by American foreclosure crisis – Press

A journalist working for a German radio and television network was in Inland southern California with a producer and camera crew this week covering the foreclosure crisis. I met her in the encampment of journalists outside the home of Arturo … Continue reading

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California City Is ‘Ground Zero’ for Pension Battle After Worker Suicide

Righeimer is trying to fire 43 percent of public employees to get control of what he calls an unsustainable pension system in Costa Mesa. Source: Costa Mesa City Council via Bloomberg Republican activist Jim Righeimer fought unions for two decades … Continue reading

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