As of 4:30 pm today, the Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court online docket showed 2,567 new civil foreclosure cases filed in the first two months of 2008.
The comparable total for January and February 2007 was 2,677.
Geographic identifiers (permanent parcel numbers and/or ZIP codes) are currently listed on the docket for 2,279 of this year’s foreclosure [...]
Eight foreclosed Cleveland homes now on eBay…
From the description of this one (emphasis added):
This bank foreclosed property is a HANDYMAN SPECIAL and has a total market value by the city of Cleveland at $47,600. The buyer is responsible for determining the actual current value. It was bought from a bank as-is, where-is, no disclosure, no [...]
Good turnout and great testimony at the Fighting Foreclosure Forum this morning, with representatives of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton attending as promised. The McCain campaign, which had committed to participate, bowed out by email at 9:15 this morning.
The webcast is now running on a continuous three-hour loop here, here and here (thanks, Jeff!)
If you [...]
Well, who woulda guessed it. It seems there’s no mortgage meltdown or housing market crisis, Ohio’s economic problems are all rooted in NAFTA, and Clinton, Obama, Williams and especially Russert all miraculously reached the Wolstein Center without passing through a Cleveland neighborhood. Luckily they had Minister Farrakhan and that guy who’s running for Putin’s [...]
Not this one, for sure. Go check out:
Team coverage from Jeff and Jill.
BSB has “multiple bloggers” on the scene.
And of course the gang at MTB/WKYC.
I’m just sittin home getting ready for the Foreclosure Forum tomorrow morning and waiting to hear what B & H have to say about all these vacant houses they’ve been seeing [...]
Fred Hochberg, Dean of Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy in New York City, will represent Hillary Clinton at the “Fighting Foreclosure and Abandonment Forum” at Cleveland City Hall Wednesday morning.
Hochberg served as deputy then acting administrator of the Small Business Administration, then a Cabinet position, under President Bill Clinton.
He will [...]
169 sheriff’s deeds were filed with the Cuyahoga County Recorder’s Office last week (February 18 through February 22).
Here’s who filed five or more:
Department of HUD (24)
Federal National Mortgage Assn (21)
Wells Fargo (18)
US Bank (17)
Deutsche Bank (16)
Bank of New York (6)
Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp (5)
RBS Citizens/Charter One (5)
(Previous week.)
Family values? Nope.
Production values.
Another coup for Cleveland+, in the London Times this morning:
Cleveland: ghost town created by America’s loan scandal
Yes, it’s mostly just another version of the same old “Oh my god look at Slavic Village” article, but a few enhancements make it worth a read.
Chicago Standup Daughter explains at length a concept that her grandmother summarized often (okay, incessantly) as follows: “He that tooteth not his own horn, the same shall not be tooteth.”
(Apparently my mother stole it from John L. Lewis, who was never on MTV, as far as I know.)