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Foreclosures

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2012

    Andre Pierre, Whose House Is In Foreclosure, Presents "Foreclosure Prevention" Class

    Attention residents of North Miami: Would you like to learn how to prevent your home from going into foreclosure? Your esteemed mayor, Andre Pierre, would like to teach you how to avoid the pain and mounting legal costs of fighting a bank trying to take away your home, so he's presenting a seminar o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2011

    Jose Mallea, Newt Gingrich's New Florida Chief, Has A Miami House In Foreclosure

    photo by Gage via Wikimedia Commons​Out on the campaign trail, Republican presidential frontrunner Newt Gingrich hasn't shown a ton of empathy toward the millions going through foreclosures. But maybe his new Florida campaign chief can change his tune with his own personal story of housing hell.Fo ... More >>

  • News

    August 4, 2011

    Miami woman accused of scamming real estate investors

    photo by Gage via Wikimedia Commons​Out on the campaign trail, Republican presidential frontrunner Newt Gingrich hasn't shown a ton of empathy toward the millions going through foreclosures. But maybe his new Florida campaign chief can change his tune with his own personal story of housing hell.Fo ... More >>

  • News

    March 24, 2011

    Finance director Larry Spring can't keep his own house in order

    photo by Gage via Wikimedia Commons​Out on the campaign trail, Republican presidential frontrunner Newt Gingrich hasn't shown a ton of empathy toward the millions going through foreclosures. But maybe his new Florida campaign chief can change his tune with his own personal story of housing hell.Fo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2011

    Miami CFO Larry Spring's House Of Disorder

    City of MiamiLarry Spring is a money pit.​No wonder the City of Miami's finances are in the crapper. The man in charge of its purse strings, Chief Financial Officer Larry Spring, lost his mother's house in a foreclosure sale last year. If he couldn't keep up with his mortgage payments, how can any ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2011

    Forbes: Miami is the Second Most Miserable City in America

    According to Forbes, the only good things about living in Miami are the weather and the fact we don't have a state income tax. Other than that, apparently Miami is a miserable hellhole. So much so that we're the second most miserable city in America, according to the finance mag's annual rankings.&n ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 19, 2010

    Screw the American Dream

    According to Forbes, the only good things about living in Miami are the weather and the fact we don't have a state income tax. Other than that, apparently Miami is a miserable hellhole. So much so that we're the second most miserable city in America, according to the finance mag's annual rankings.&n ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 10, 2010

    Miami Ranked Ninth Worst City to Live

    ViaWe are all just miserable little oranges.​Maybe LeBron's girlfriend, Savannah Brison, was right. Maybe Miami really is just a terrible place to live. AOL's WalletPop seems to agree, ranking the Magic City the ninth worst city to live in the entire United States. Apparently, all of our crim ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 28, 2010

    Foreclosure Rate Down 38 Percent in Miami-Dade

    via CLTVForeclosures had become a strikingly normal part of life in Miami-Dade, as the economy became one of the hardest hit during the recession and homeowners found themselves underwater. Thing however appear to finally be getting better.In the first five months of 2010 foreclosures were down 38% ... More >>

  • News

    March 18, 2010

    A pile of foreclosure papers threatens to topple a downtown Miami courthouse

    via CLTVForeclosures had become a strikingly normal part of life in Miami-Dade, as the economy became one of the hardest hit during the recession and homeowners found themselves underwater. Thing however appear to finally be getting better.In the first five months of 2010 foreclosures were down 38% ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2010

    "It's Going to Blow!": Miami-Dade's Leaning Tower of Debt Haunts Clerks' Dreams

    There was a time -- say, last summer -- when no clerk wanted to enter a certain room on the 15th floor of 140 W. Flagler St., a drab Miami-Dade County municipal building downtown. Inside lurked a multiton beast made of dead trees: the collection of pending foreclosure case files for the county. Si ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 19, 2010

    Miami Is the Sixth Most Miserable City in America

    ​We dreamed a dream in time gone by. When hope was high and life worth living. But the corrupt politicians come at night with their voices soft as thunder. As they tear your mortgages apart and they turn your job to shame.Yes, we here in Miami are apparently les misérables. So miserable, in fact, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 5, 2009

    The Economy May Be Recovering, But Miami's Foreclosure Mania Isn't Close To Over

    Riptide was feeling all warm and fuzzy this morning. No, it wasn't just from all the vodka in our coffee. (What, like you don't start your day with a little 'Russian java'?) Flickr / CC BY-SA 2.0​The latest employment numbers came out this morning, and it looks like our Kanye-on-the-VMAs-esque dis ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 3, 2009

    Laugh Till It Stops Hurting

    Riptide was feeling all warm and fuzzy this morning. No, it wasn't just from all the vodka in our coffee. (What, like you don't start your day with a little 'Russian java'?) Flickr / CC BY-SA 2.0​The latest employment numbers came out this morning, and it looks like our Kanye-on-the-VMAs-esque dis ... More >>

  • News

    August 6, 2009

    Miami-Dade Property Appraiser Misleads Citizens

    The county's online property search doesn't disclose foreclosures.

  • Calendar

    August 6, 2009

    D-List Diva

    The county's online property search doesn't disclose foreclosures.

  • Blogs

    August 3, 2009

    Miami-Dade Property Appraiser Lies

    ​The Banana has a friend named Betty, who earlier this year picked up a two-bedroom condo on Brickell Avenue for $109,000. Betty got the unit at a bargain because it was in foreclosure. But you wouldn't know that by checking the Miami-Dade County Property Appraiser's online property search databas ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2009

    Foreclosed Homes Are a Burglar's Best Friend

    Miami Beach cops got the call just after lunchtime this past January 26. A woman reported the following: Two thin, unfamiliar men were lurking in her neighborhood  between a yellow $1.1 million waterfront house and an abandoned tan bungalow. They were carrying furniture from the houses to thei ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 13, 2009

    Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Angry at Statistics

    Every month it seems Forbes puts out some dumb list of city rankings. Riptide always notes how dumb the list is, but posts about it anyway. Forbes appreciates any extra page views it gets, because that's half the reason they do it, but at the end of the day, these lists don't really mean all that mu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2009

    South Florida Actually a Good Place to Start a Small Business

    You never would have guessed it, considering we're more or less ground zero for the foreclosure crisis, but the Miami-Fort Lauderdale area is actually the 12th best place to start a small business, according to Biz Journals. The rankings cited South Florida's strong population and job growth. Betwee ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 21, 2008

    Forecasts for Florida's Economy Are Bleak, Folks

    There needs to be some kind of drinking game tied to breaking news alerts that tell us how grim our financial futures are. It began this morning on the Herald’s website with the news that employment in Florida is at a 15-year high and that it could get worse by next summer. In related news, a ... More >>

  • News

    November 20, 2008

    Mar-a-Lago Hosts Rich Developers

    If you got it, flaunt it!

  • News

    November 20, 2008

    Squatters

    Don't cry. Just move into one of those empty homes around the corner.

  • Calendar

    May 29, 2008

    Get High

    Enjoy the view from the top with Level 25’s Elevated Fridays.

  • News

    May 1, 2008

    Boom & Bust, Part 1

    On this foreclosure tour, the mortgage crisis is just another money maker.

  • News

    August 2, 2007

    Home Groan

    It's the tops in Florida. And the banks are eating it up.

  • Blogs

    July 3, 2007

    Miami Makes Money's Top Foreclosures List

    It's the tops in Florida. And the banks are eating it up.

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2007

    Miami Home Foreclosures in a Death Spiral

    It's the tops in Florida. And the banks are eating it up.

  • News

    March 11, 2004

    Hit 'Em Where They Live

    In a contentious case of townhouse tumult, resourceful residents kick management maniacs to the curb

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