RE Bomb in Boise

[Joanne98]

RealtyTrac is out this morning with a year-end look at foreclosures. I think it is a terrible report.

There is the usual bad news from the worst hit areas.

-1 in 8 homes in Vegas was in foreclosure. How is it that the MSM has convinced us that things have gotten better there? They have not.

-Cali and Arizona are looking at ten percent default rates. And this has been going on for a few years now.

-A substantial part of South Florida has one home in ten in default. In Marco Island/Naples the rate is 6.5%. That blows my mind. I know this area. It is deep pocket. At least it used to be.

-The real shocker to me was Provo Utah and Boise ID. The default rates are up 100% from two years ago. This was not supposed to be happening in places like this.

There is a nationwide problem of defaults. The people in Boise are feeling the same pain as Stockton. Every time that a default happens it devalues other properties. I have real estate interests around the country and I can tell you that things are dead. There was a time when a buyer would look at a home and ask, “How big is the lot?” Today the question is, “Does the bank have title and are they desperate to sell?”.

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http://www.zerohedge.com/article/re-bomb-boise

[thunder rising]

1. "Does the bank have title?" ... thank god for MERS ... the answer is NO! Suck on that.