- Investor buys private San Francisco street at auction after unpaid taxes, homeowners sue http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/Rich-SF-residents-get-a-shock-Someone-bought-11738236.php 160 comments law
- This man owed $134 in property taxes. The District sold the lien to an investor who foreclosed on his $197,000 house and sold it. He and many other homeowners like him were Left with nothing. http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2013/09/08/left-with-nothing/?hpid=z1 41 comments politics
- Left With Nothing: This man owed $134 in property taxes. The District sold the lien to an investor who foreclosed on his $197,000 house and sold it. He and many others homeowners like him were left with nothing. http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2013/09/08/left-with-nothing/ 23 comments politics
- Left with nothing: Bennie Coleman owed $134 in property taxes. The District of Columbia sold the lien to an investor who foreclosed on Bennie's $197,000 house and sold it. He and many others homeowners like him were left with nothing. http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2013/09/08/left-with-nothing/ 54 comments politics
- Bank of America: Too Crooked to Fail | The bank has defrauded everyone from investors and insurers to homeowners and the unemployed. So why does the government keep bailing it out? http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/bank-of-america-too-crooked-to-fail-20120314?print=true 17 comments politics
- Bank of America: Too Crooked to Fail | The bank has defrauded everyone from investors and insurers to homeowners and the unemployed. So why does the government keep bailing it out? http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/bank-of-america-too-crooked-to-fail-20120314?print=true 2 comments economy
- "I think the bank could have offered them a modification of their loan for twice that amount," Cohen says. "But the bank would not do that. They would rather see the homeowner displaced from their home with their children, and then sell it to an investor for $115,000." http://www.npr.org/2010/12/20/132146568/housing-nightmare-upends-family-enriches-investor?ps=cprs 4 comments politics
- Bank of America sneaky new money-making scheme: Quietly buy $$$millions in homeowners' property tax debts and collect from distressed people. Add interest charges, fees, and bundled the debts as securities for investors, who can seize properties through foreclosure if the debts are unpaid http://www.alternet.org/economy/149157/wall_street%27s_sneaky_new_way_to_make_bank_from_struggling_homeowners/ 15 comments business
- Woman Loses Home Over a $362 Water Bill -- the Sneaky Way Investors Exploit Poor Homeowners http://www.alternet.org/investigations/147118/woman_loses_home_over_a_%24362_water_bill_--_the_sneaky_way_investors_exploit_poor_homeowners/ 2 comments reddit.com
- Woman Loses Home Over a $362 Water Bill -- the Sneaky Way Investors Exploit Poor Homeowners Vicki Valentine lost the two-story brick row home after the city sold her debt to investors through a contentious and byzantine legal process called a "tax sale." http://www.alternet.org/investigations/147118/woman_loses_home_over_a_$362_water_bill_--_the_sneaky_way_investors_exploit_poor_homeowners/ 17 comments politics
- Foreclosures dismay aspiring homeowners who can't compete with vulture investors pooling their money and buying up property http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/13/business/economy/13sfecon.html 19 comments business
- All American Investor: Obama: I wanna help Homeowners--Is this you? http://allamericaninvestor.blogspot.com/2009/02/obama-i-wanna-help-homeowners-is-this.html 2 comments reddit.com
- “Homeowners are suing lenders. Shareholders are suing collapsed mortgage companies. Investors in complex mortgage securities are starting to sue big Wall Street banks. Those investment banks are turning around and suing the mortgage companies.” http://thehousingbubbleblog.com/?p=3095 3 comments reddit.com
- Interest Rates Rise, Rents Too - Germany: After years of rising prices, apartments and houses are becoming cheaper again in many major cities. The reason is higher borrowing costs for investors and homeowners. But this is not necessarily good news for renters. https://www.konicz.info/2023/08/26/interest-rates-rise-rents-too/ 4 comments economics