Living After Foreclosure

Capitalism at its finest.

Restaurants are feeling the pain with $4 gas and tightening pursestrings, so they’re sharing the pain by offering “recession specials” — slightly cheaper offerings to help strapped clients enjoy some of the finer things. These deals aren’t really that great compared to cooking in but it’s better than no discount at all.

Padre’s Modern Mexican is going out on a limb and offering any drink for free when the customer brings in a foreclosure notice. Although drinking is usually not the solution for problems like this, I suppose it’s an opportune display of thoughtfulness for what has to be the beginning of a tough time.

I expect to see more deals like this as businesses try to keep sales up in the midst of economic downturn and people losing their homes.

• Stripped for copper Abandoned houses attract a lot of things: partying teenagers, mice, rocks through the windows, the elements. Now, with the houses rotting away in varying states in the foreclosure process, these houses are now attracting black-market commodities dealers.  The houses are broken into and stripped of their copper pipes and wires. ......
• Steps to take if you’re facing foreclosure, Part 2 Liz Pulliam Weston wrote recently on steps to take if you’re facing foreclosure.  There are smart ways to go about it, and not-so-smart ways.  Here are three more of her suggestions with some of my comments: Be realistic.  A house is just a house.  It may have a lot of......
• Well, this is one way to get rid of unsold homes If this story is true, this is an ugly development.  (It's a guy with a video camera, so who knows.)  Banks are allegedly paying to destroy new and unfinished homes that they own rather than pay mounting fines imposed by local government for allowing the homes to stay vacant and......
• The first post on the site Welcome to the first post on Living After Foreclosure! Here are some of the things I plan to talk about on this site: The foreclosure process -- how one gets to that point, what's involved, how it can be avoided The social effects of foreclosure How widespread foreclosure affects society......

• Drink More Agua I seriously mean it. Drink MORE water. It helps clean your system out. I tend to drink at least a gallon of water a day. Maybe more, I get really thirsty after intense workouts. I also get extremely hungry after an intense workout, but I will cover that some other......
• All About Emergency Funds The news is full of heartbreaking stories about people losing their homes, going bankrupt and facing financial ruin. If you don’t want to be among them, it is time to take a hard look at some steps that you can take to insure yourself against financial ruin. One of the......
• Credit Karma -- Free No Strings Credit Scoring Never before have Americans been so interested in their credit scores, and as such, numerous sites have cropped up offering to sell them. It can get pretty expensive if you want to keep checking your score with these sites and many people discover hidden monthly fees that rack up quickly.......
• Rules for Master Cleanse Diet If you're not ready for what you'll experience during the Master Cleanse, there is a good possibility that you will fail. With the this diet plan being just 10 days, it is easily seen why people just jump right in. They think it will be easy ..... But its NOT.......