Tuesday, April 14, 2009

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Tuesday, April 14, 2009

It pays to research home's history
Q: I signed a contract to buy a lender-owned foreclosure through an agent. Our agent ordered a home inspection and it was scheduled for Feb. 17 at 1 p.m.

As the inspection was finishing up, our agent told my wife that she heard from the listing agent four days earlier that there had been a death in the house. Later that evening, I started searching the Internet and calling neighbors and discovered there was horrible police shootout incident in that house in which two residents were killed ... CONTINUED


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