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		<title>Frequent foreclosers of 2010 (so far)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The &#8220;Big Eight&#8221; continue to file almost two-thirds of the county&#8217;s new foreclosures.

(NEO CANDO data)
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		<link>http://www.callahansclevelanddiary.com/?p=1264</link>
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		<title>County&#8217;s foreclosure gusher continues; does anybody care?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Atrios wrote yesterday:
The Forgotten Foreclosure Crisis 

I&#8217;m going to kick this dead horse for awhile because it&#8217;s really pissing me off. They had 75 billion bucks to do something about foreclosure crisis. They didn&#8217;t need President Snowe to sign off on anything. The program they implemented didn&#8217;t work. Does anybody care?
Excellent question, Professor Black.
According to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.callahansclevelanddiary.com/?p=1230</link>
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		<title>Citizens of the empire</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week&#8217;s prize for Most Hilarious New Commercial In A Regional Market goes to Charter One Bank&#8217;s &#8220;Good Banking Is Good Citizenship&#8221;, featuring a solemn discussion among some unidentified (but clearly American) Founding Fathers about&#8230; well, banking and citizenship.  (In some markets the ad uses the Citizens Financial name rather than Charter One.)
The joke?  Charter [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.callahansclevelanddiary.com/?p=1202</link>
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		<title>Another month, another thousand new foreclosures</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; putting Cuyahoga County on track for a 12,000-foreclosure year, like the bad old days of 2007 and 2008.
NEOCANDO reports there were 4,173 new non-tax foreclosure filings in Cuyahoga Common Pleas between January 1 and April 30, including 1,020 in April.  Only about 40% of the total were in the city of Cleveland.

Of 3,153 new [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.callahansclevelanddiary.com/?p=1194</link>
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		<title>Feds turn down City&#8217;s wifi proposal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The City of Cleveland&#8217;s proposal for a $15 million Federal stimulus grant to build a public wireless broadband network is officially out of the running, at least for now.
On Friday the Commerce Department&#8217;s National Telecommunications and Information Administration added status information to the individual application pages at Broadband USA.  The City of Cleveland&#8217;s page now [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.callahansclevelanddiary.com/?p=1172</link>
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		<title>Nonprofit Metrohealth posts $52 million profit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s the way the Plain Dealer sees it, anyway. (Article.)
So&#8230; I wonder if they&#8217;ll stop rationing the toilet paper now.
(That&#8217;s not a joke.  Ask someone who works there.)

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		<link>http://www.callahansclevelanddiary.com/?p=1169</link>
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		<title>Marc Tow properties in Cuyahoga County</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Click on the graphic for a Google map of local properties owned (as of yesterday) by Marc Tow and Michael Alexander&#8217;s companies, EZ Access Funding and Diamond Housing Group.

(Map created using County Auditor&#8217;s data and GPS Visualizer.)
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		<link>http://www.callahansclevelanddiary.com/?p=1162</link>
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		<title>An email from EZ Access</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In response to yesterday&#8217;s post about the California &#8220;predatory investor&#8221; whose company, EZ Access Funding, owns the vacant house on West 83rd that exploded and burned Monday, I got the following email last night:
Dear Mr. Callahan,
We have seen your blog online. Since we found out about the explosion on our property in Cleveland we have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.callahansclevelanddiary.com/?p=1153</link>
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		<title>West 83rd explosion house owned by predatory investor EZ Access</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It turns out that the gas explosion that levelled 2022 West 83rd St. this afternoon, ripping through the surrounding neighborhood and leaving dozens homeless, is part of a whole other story.
Waaaay down at the bottom of the Plain Dealer&#8217;s online  article about the tragedy we find this:
James and Irene Garman sold the home in December [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.callahansclevelanddiary.com/?p=1139</link>
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		<title>Correction: 2009 County foreclosures topped 11,400</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems Cuyahoga County had about six hundred more mortgage foreclosures last year than I reported in this post two weeks ago.
Mike Schramm, NEO CANDO&#8217;s housing statistics guru, sent around an email alert on Friday about corrections to the CWRU site&#8217;s 2009 foreclosure filing statistics. Apparently their database had a significant undercount of new cases [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.callahansclevelanddiary.com/?p=1119</link>
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