The Privatopia Papers

I had a fascinating conversation yesterday with a lawyer who has set up a huge business just making short sales happen--where the bank OKs ...

Baum Firm Reaches Settlement With Attorney General Steven J. Baum, who led what was once New York's largest foreclosure firm before i...

Condo and HOA Law: Trayvon Martin tragedy in Central Florida HOA highlights need to know what association volunteers are doing! Donna Berge...

The New Suburban Poverty - NYTimes.com " In many of America’s once pristine suburbs, harbingers of inner-city blight — overgrown lots...

U.S. Completes Sale of Mortgage-Backed Securities - NYTimes.com   Treasury Department announced on Monday that it had finished selling th...

Fines pile up for Wilton Manors home damaged by Wilma - South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com "City code violation fines have risen as fast a...

George Zimmerman Neighbors Complained About Aggressive Tactics Before Trayvon Martin Killing A volunteer community watch captain who shot ...

The price of order: Pros and cons of homeowners associations   About 15 percent of housing developments in Berks have some form of homeown...

$100 to Fly Through the Airport - WSJ.com   Hate the full-body scans, pat-downs and slow going at TSA airport security screening checkpoin...

Esther Epstein has resided in the Beachwalk community for nearly 20 years. She says when the area’s lake, also considered a common area, fl...

Built by forced labor, German bunkers become homes - Yahoo! News BREMEN, Germany (Reuters) - German architect Rainer Mielke lives in a lu...

Late Night FDL: Privatopia | Firedoglake It's nice when you invent a word and it gets picked up in the language, but it would be nicer ...

Three in 10 young adults live with parents, highest level since 1950s - CSMonitor.com But is this altogether a bad thing? I love my kids an...

Mayor, unions at odds over fixes for Fresno budget - Politics - fresnobee.com In an afternoon meeting with The Bee's editorial board,...

Will home prices fall 20% more? - 1 - housing & recession - MSN Money   The truth is, a combination of factors is set to push national ...

More Boomers Selling Homes, but Who Will Buy Them? - US Business News - CNBC  "As boomers downsize because of retirement, finances, he...

Lawmakers have for a number of years proposed legislation that would stop HOAs from setting rules regarding public streets. The bills stem ...

Corrections Corporation Of America Sues Florida Town For Blocking New Detention Center The nation's largest private prison corporation...

Banks foreclosing on churches in record numbers | Reuters "Since 2010, 270 churches have been sold after defaulting on their loans, ...

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Set to Default on $5.27 Million GO Bond Payments - Bloomberg "Harrisburg (9661MF) , Pennsylvania ’s insolv...