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This petition offends me because it omits some important facts, namely the couple bought a foreclosure... See http://www.heraldandnews.com/members/news/frontpa

by yajoe 14y ago

This petition offends me because it omits some important facts, namely the couple bought a foreclosure... See http://www.heraldandnews.com/members/news/frontpage/article_bf59ee80-edb5-11e1-9514-001a4bcf887a.html http://www.heraldandnews.com/members/news/frontpage/article_... I helped a friend through a foreclosure recently, and throughout the process you sign and are told MULTIPLE times that the house is "as-is." These people should have inspected. You get what you pay for, and I'm sorry they are out 36k, but this is no different than buying a new ferrari from a used car dealer for 10k and asking ferrari to send you a new engine. From the article: "They found a couple of smashed windows, and knew they’d have to put some work into it, he said. A handout from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency informed them they were responsible for detecting asbestos, lead paint or other common health hazards associated with older homes."

stephengillie 14y ago
Did these people even view the house before they bought it?
jack-r-abbit 14y ago
This petition offended me long before that. It was today's lucky SPAM email from change.org. Sheesh... you sign one petition with them... and SPAM!
Yuffster 14y ago
Also interesting from the article and not in the petition: >Sold for a song at $36,000, the two-bedroom, single-story home is about the only rough spot on a street of clean and tidy homes. [...] >The Hankins now will be stuck with the cost of remediation, which one contractor said costs $5,000 to $8,000 or more Seems to me that $41,000-43,000 is still a pretty good price for a two-bedroom home, about $10k down from the average in the area according to Trulia. So the full story is that they explicitly bought a house as-is, found an $8000 problem with it, and decided to start a petition and move out. I'd agree that there should be a better database of convicted meth distributors/manufacturers and the homes they used for their operations, but then why not push for that kind of regulation at the state level rather than within one company? Especially if the "most important" part of your petition is to make sure "that this doesn't happen to one more family".

by yajoe 14y ago

stephengillie 14y ago

Did these people even view the house before they bought it?

jack-r-abbit 14y ago

This petition offended me long before that. It was today's lucky SPAM email from change.org. Sheesh... you sign one petition with them... and SPAM!

Yuffster 14y ago

Also interesting from the article and not in the petition: >Sold for a song at $36,000, the two-bedroom, single-story home is about the only rough spot on a street of clean and tidy homes. [...] >The Hankins now will be stuck with the cost of remediation, which one contractor said costs $5,000 to $8,000 or more Seems to me that $41,000-43,000 is still a pretty good price for a two-bedroom home, about $10k down from the average in the area according to Trulia. So the full story is that they explicitly bought a house as-is, found an $8000 problem with it, and decided to start a petition and move out. I'd agree that there should be a better database of convicted meth distributors/manufacturers and the homes they used for their operations, but then why not push for that kind of regulation at the state level rather than within one company? Especially if the "most important" part of your petition is to make sure "that this doesn't happen to one more family".