Why do we as a society get so involved in celebrities and thier lives or in most cases deaths?

That way your contribution actually goes to help abandoned animals.If a pet is found abandoned in a purchase or rental, call the local humane society and the local police and see if you can pressure them into prosecuting.Animals get abandoned because there are no consequences.

Are you a city girl (like the urban scene?).

However, if we take out the bubble years that were contributed to by lending and also pent up demand from the early 90's, and just look at 1976 to 1990, the average is 11% so even without the excessive lending, this 9% seems to hold close.2) Sadly our society today and in the future has a much much higher divorce rate.

The more government has control the closer we become to a socialist society.

Funny how our society views college.

@Steve Babiak I hear you ... there are other majestic longer-lived trees (even maples) that would make better trees in an urban setting.

I did bid on a couple of residential vacant land in Urban area.I use Land use code and lien face value range to filter all properties I like.After putting together a list, I start doing research one by one by using county office website, google maps, Zillow and EPA website.I bid at 5-8% for first three batches but got nothing because winners for properties I bid on are at 2%-4%, some even 1%.I adjusted my bidding rate for later batches.I won 8 bids in total. 7 of them are properties with house on it at low rate. 1 of them is residential vacant land at higher rate.I made payment for all my winning bids on the day of results.waiting for tax lien certificate.....Hope this is helpful to other newbies.

You mean a house on an urban lot that's been eaten by a sinkhole?

So actually people do buy 500k lots for 200k homes in high cost urban areas.