The numbers are close with the back tax numbers, but why pay the full amount, we're doing them a favor, we'll fix it up now and get it on the tax rolls now, vice them having to wait a few more years and let things deteriorate more in the mean time, public complaints pile up, and end up with no more cash to show for it.

Of course, these same guys also say:"We expect prices to decline further through 2009 as consumers remain wary of taking on housing debt in these uncertain economic conditions....and"What is most worrisome about these sharp declines, and the general economic deterioration as 2008 ended, is that there is no sign of a bottom yet."

If the property looks like it has been sitting there, deteriorating for years, chances are hundreds of other investors have already sifted through the records in hopes of landing the deal of a century.

Justify by time, deterioration, repairs, vandalism, low comps in the area, etc, etc, etc.

What I am ashamed of is seeing my country deteriorated by fools that WE put in office.Dick, I wish I had known so many people had no idea what Socialism was and that so many were uneducated in politics and economics.

They see something that you don't such as declining of neighbourhood, big employer go bust, etc.They may aslo know of some major deterioration in the building that require huge expense that may render the property as non-profitable.

I would hope this in the cabinets themselves deteriorating.

SO,,,,I want to try different approach, single subject, and see how it goes.U.S. education system sucks and has deteriorated in past 50 years greatly.

Hey Mat,If they are political discussions, they probably got moved to the Politics group or shut down, either because the thread deteriorated into name calling or someone posted something against forum rules (like religious stuff).Any non-political stuff that goes away or gets moved is generally because the post belonged in a different forum or the mods determined that the post was spam or violated forum rules.

I've heard that vacant houses deteriorate faster than those that are occupied.