Radio show features consumer scams and foreclosure prevention This month’s show features the latest consumer scams and foreclosure prevention tips. Guests are Deborah Berry, Operations Manager Pinellas County Consumer Protection and Bill Sanchez, Vice President of the Homebuyers Club from Tampa Bay Community Development Corporation. The program, sponsored by the Housing Finance Authority, airs the […]
How to Buy a Foreclosure in Tampa Bay-Foreclosure Statistics Tampa, St. Pete, Clearwater
During the month of March, 2009 In Florida, one in every 282 homeowners received a foreclosure notice. In the U.S. One in every 538 American households received either a default notice, auction sale notice or bank repossession, according to RealtyTrac’s U.S. Foreclosure Market Report. With foreclosure filings up 57 percent from a year ago, (Source: RealtyTrac.) […]
Developer paid 125m for 160 acres of land in South Tampa, now in foreclosure
It doesn’t seem like four years ago that we all heard about the old Georgetown Apartments being purchased for a new waterfront community in South Tampa off of Westshore Blvd. Fast forward to 2009 and the apartments are still there and the property is in foreclosure. I remember taking clients out showing property and saying […]