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Renting Is Better For The Poor

by Moe Bedard

While suffering through the Great Depression, my grandparents never faced the challenge of making a fixed mortgage payment. Instead, they rented and moved every year. Their circumstances dictated whether it would be a move to a larger or smaller apartment. But mostly, in that era of deflation that lowered wages and prices, they were driven [...]

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Predatory Landlords: The Latest Foreclosure Scam

by Moe Bedard

By Moe Bedard
The simple act of renting a home for Main Street Americans has become a sick game of “Where’s the foreclosure?” or another popular rental hit, “Let’s see how long we can rent in this home before it falls into foreclosure?”
The scam of renting a home when it is in foreclosure and not paying [...]

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Renters can’t escape housing foreclosure crisis

by Moe Bedard

On a chilly night after work last November, Christopher and Jenell Chow relaxed, watching the evening news while their children scampered around their rented two-story stucco home. Someone knocked at the door.
An officer was standing on the doorstep, eviction papers in hand. That’s when the Chows learned that the North Las Vegas home they’d rented [...]

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