A Picture Paints a Thousand Words!!

Sad but true, seeing it here also. Now I hear that they are holding back on the foreclosures. Good for those who haven't been foreclosed on yet, but sad for all those who have lost their homes already.

In the end Bryant is about dreams. Some people are experiencing a CRUSHING of their former dream come true and it is sad to see.

I see this all the time in my marketplace too...it's hard to know the circumstances that would lead someone to give up on their home, but the result is very sad.

We don't have that many foreclosures here - but we do have "deals" and big price reductions.  It just never seems to be enough for most of these buyers.  Most just want what they want and they don't care who they step on to get it.  I think World War II and even the Great Depression brought out the BEST in those who came before us. But if the best was brought out in that generation - the WORST has been brought out in this one.   Everyone is making money grabs.  Those pictures are so sad - because there used to be families where now there is nothing.  What is sadder still - is that many buyers just don't seem to care.

Wow.  Really sad.  I sometimes see empty houses similar to your pics, but not nearly as bad...

Hi Bryant. That is a reason why I help with short sales in Tampa Bay. When there is a homeowner in crisis there may be a family in crisis. It's sad on so many levels especially a personal one. I did not have a home as a child. It affects me when I know that there are children involved in all of this.

...and so many animals are being abandoned as well. Very sad times...

Wrenching photos, Bryant. I showed a house aobut 2 years ago that still had everything in it... clothes thrown everywhere, books, kids toys, everything. While my clients looked around, I realized that I knew the person that lived there. She ended up overdosing and her husband and kids lost the house and just left. My client bought it, but he still talks about the shape it was left in. Every house has a story.

Heart wrenching photos. I just wrote a blog entry about the number of foreclosure filings in our area of Orange County, California last month. With over 400 filings last month alone it is devastating to know that many, many families will be facing a very tough situation as reflected in the photos you shared.

The sadness is overwhelming.  We all need to be thankful for what we do have, post #25 really saysit.  These are families that have had their lives shattered.  Were are they now and will they be ok.  Then I ask myself, what have I done this month to really help someone?  Make a pledge, give something, if nothing else than a kind a word.  God Bless all of us.

Hun...

I see what you mean. I don't get it either :)

TLW...ROAR!

Picture a warm, healthy real estate scene...words cannot describe.

Picture a terrible time... words don't work then either.

BB - Always an eerie feeling walking through the foreclosures while wondering about the people and the hardships that caused them to lose everything. I have read some hardship letters and the stories are very sad.

The stuff we see almost daily... some sad, some just unbelievable in their destruction.

What is to become of this market in Florida with the banks and government making a huge mess?

Puts it in perspective, doesn't it? I was a Disaster Housing Inspector for FEMA, called out at the time for Wilma and Katrina. It was sometimes heart wrenching and nothing short of a life changing experience. The human element to real estate should not escape us, Bryant, and thanks for putting a lense on it.

So sad that so many people's dreams have been broken.  We can only pray that things level out soon and that these families move on to better times and circumstances.  Good luck with these listings BB.  If anyone can handle it, you can :)!