In my backyard-foreclosures

[w8liftinglady]

DeSoto neighborhood hit hard by foreclosures
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/022908dnmetdesoto.1ebc81f.html
DeSOTO – Daisy Street is your typical swath of suburbia with tidy lawns fronting a lineup of two-story brick homes. Raymondo Lee knows the inside story.

"The people there left. Those people left. All these houses are vacant," he says, standing in front of his sister's home on Daisy, pointing toward the emptiness all around.

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The D-FW cities with the most foreclosures in 2007:

1. Dallas 3,767

2. Fort Worth 2,681

3. Arlington 1,295

4. Garland 941

5. Grand Prairie 767

6. Mesquite 753

7. DeSoto 625

8. Cedar Hill 511

9. McKinney 459

10. Lancaster 446

These are OUR neighbors.

[w8liftinglady]

1. and I guess I should add-one was me.

[sarcasmo]

2. This is the first domino to fall. Wait until the credit cards are maxed out.

[w8liftinglady]

3. let me kick for Dallas area folks-you aren't alone

[earth mom]

4. Sad. Something needs to be done NOW or we are looking at the Great Depression 3 folks. nt

[NNN0LHI]

5. I now see many houses with For-Sale signs along with Reduced signs on streets...

...where you would NEVER see even one Fore-Sale sign because for the previous four or five decades everything sold strictly by word of mouth as soon as one became available in this neighborhood. They never had to be listed with a realtor.

This is the street I grew up on.

Don