Comments on: Municipalities Dealing With Foreclosure Crisis http://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2009/07/06/municipalities-dealing-foreclosure-crisis/ Learn, Network, Invest Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:37:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: jacklewitzhttp://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2009/07/06/municipalities-dealing-foreclosure-crisis/#comment-67255 jacklewitz Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:08:27 +0000 http://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/?p=5843#comment-67255 I have been trying to address the vacant and abandoned home problem in my market area. My concept is to take daily video's of vacant homes and post them on my website. Those who would be allowed to view the homes would be municipalities, police, fire, public works departments, insurance companies, utility companies, asset management companies, and lenders. The purpose is to monitor these homes while they are vacant. I have talked to a few city officials near my home and they appear interested but nothing further. How can I motivate them... .-= jacklewitz´s last blog ..<a href="http://ilrealestatespecialists.com/2009/07/22/illinois-bank-losses-cost-fdic-a-pretty-penny/" rel="nofollow">Illinois Bank Losses Cost FDIC A Pretty Penny</a> =-. I have been trying to address the vacant and abandoned home problem in my market area. My concept is to take daily video’s of vacant homes and post them on my website. Those who would be allowed to view the homes would be municipalities, police, fire,
public works departments, insurance companies, utility companies,
asset management companies, and lenders. The purpose is to monitor these homes while they are vacant. I have talked to a few city officials near my home and they appear interested but nothing further. How can I motivate them…
.-= jacklewitz´s last blog ..Illinois Bank Losses Cost FDIC A Pretty Penny =-.

]]> By: Joshua Dorkinhttp://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2009/07/06/municipalities-dealing-foreclosure-crisis/#comment-66698 Joshua Dorkin Tue, 07 Jul 2009 01:56:24 +0000 http://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/?p=5843#comment-66698 Sounds to me like legislation designed to protect credit card holders from rising interest rates. The White House and Congress hyped this breakthrough law recently; unfortunately, the law isn't set to go into effect until next year. By the time it does, the CC companies will have already raised all the rates they want to, and will have profited off of the intentional or unintentional idiocy of our lawmakers who failed to make it go into effect immediately.There are great ideas floating around, but it seems like we're seriously failing in our execution of . . . all of them! Sounds to me like legislation designed to protect credit card holders from rising interest rates. The White House and Congress hyped this breakthrough law recently; unfortunately, the law isn’t set to go into effect until next year. By the time it does, the CC companies will have already raised all the rates they want to, and will have profited off of the intentional or unintentional idiocy of our lawmakers who failed to make it go into effect immediately.

There are great ideas floating around, but it seems like we’re seriously failing in our execution of . . . all of them!

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