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That is just flat out wrong. Even the story states repeatedly that a foreclosure doesn't just sneak up on you. Why those people left behind all their belongings

That is just flat out wrong. Even the story states repeatedly that a foreclosure doesn't just sneak up on you. Why those people left behind all their belongings is beyond me, but it wasn't because it happened all of a sudden. Like the story mentions, they know months in advance. Everything in the story about why the stuff is left is speculation. Even if realtors did cause foreclosures to somehow sneak up on people, it has nothing to do with what causes people to end up in foreclosure in the first place. You're going after the wrong target.

ardit33 18y ago
it is probably crap they didn't need anyways. Foreclosure people are probably moving to smaller places, or going to live with family. People are only keeping stuff that they really need.
- zzzmarcus 18y ago
  They show large TV's and family pictures, nice furniture etc. being thrown out. It really is insane that people wouldn't at least try to Craigslist some of that stuff. If the reporters were really trying to do their jobs correctly they'd have found some of the people who ditched all their stuff and asked them why they left it. Instead, they resort to speculation.
indiejade 18y ago
Because I care more about the truth and right than your vindictive downmoddings on my post, I'll reply: It has everything to do with why people end up in foreclosure. The video does not showcase an isolated event: it showcases a phenomena that has been happening almost everywhere for the past few years. Take note of the statistics mentioned during the report about how many families are affected by things of this nature. Care to guess how many pounds are going into the landfills? Realtors don't make money when people are allowed to stay in their homes; they only make money when people are forced out of their homes. The key word in the video snippet is "contracts" . . . as the video stated, the people being _paid_ to _trash_ homes are under contract to not leave anything out or "by the curb." Surely I'm not the only person who takes note of how utterly wasteful this is.
- zzzmarcus 18y ago
  Yes. Lots of people are losing their homes to foreclosure. Yes. A lot of their stuff ends up in landfills. Those are bad things. I agree. What you haven't showed is how realtors have anything to do with why people end up in foreclosure or why these people move out so quickly leaving everything behind. Foreclosures still take months to happen, people have months to get rid of their stuff somehow. If they don't, they are the irresponsible ones, not realtors. People stop paying their loans, banks foreclose. Realtors stand a chance of profiting from two events they neither caused or influenced.

ardit33 18y ago

it is probably crap they didn't need anyways. Foreclosure people are probably moving to smaller places, or going to live with family. People are only keeping stuff that they really need.

zzzmarcus 18y ago
They show large TV's and family pictures, nice furniture etc. being thrown out. It really is insane that people wouldn't at least try to Craigslist some of that stuff. If the reporters were really trying to do their jobs correctly they'd have found some of the people who ditched all their stuff and asked them why they left it. Instead, they resort to speculation.

indiejade 18y ago

Because I care more about the truth and right than your vindictive downmoddings on my post, I'll reply: It has everything to do with why people end up in foreclosure. The video does not showcase an isolated event: it showcases a phenomena that has been happening almost everywhere for the past few years. Take note of the statistics mentioned during the report about how many families are affected by things of this nature. Care to guess how many pounds are going into the landfills? Realtors don't make money when people are allowed to stay in their homes; they only make money when people are forced out of their homes. The key word in the video snippet is "contracts" . . . as the video stated, the people being _paid_ to _trash_ homes are under contract to not leave anything out or "by the curb." Surely I'm not the only person who takes note of how utterly wasteful this is.

zzzmarcus 18y ago
Yes. Lots of people are losing their homes to foreclosure. Yes. A lot of their stuff ends up in landfills. Those are bad things. I agree. What you haven't showed is how realtors have anything to do with why people end up in foreclosure or why these people move out so quickly leaving everything behind. Foreclosures still take months to happen, people have months to get rid of their stuff somehow. If they don't, they are the irresponsible ones, not realtors. People stop paying their loans, banks foreclose. Realtors stand a chance of profiting from two events they neither caused or influenced.