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In article <Q7Ryj.8026$tW.5863@nlpi070.nbdc.sbc.com>, M.L. wrote:
>>> the gang-banger residents will be evicted. The bank, wishing to
>>> recover as much of its inventment as possible, will at the very least
>>> send someone to power-wash that hideous paint job off and/or paint
>>> over it with some solid, neutral color.
>>
>> Um... probably not. Banks just send the property to auction. That's
>> why
>> they don't notice the dead bodies inside. Ever wonder why those news
>> stories almost always say the body was discovered by someone who
>> bought
>> the property at a foreclosure auction or a tax-sale auction?
>>
>> They don't look inside. The foreclosure I had to deal with the banks
>> (the first one that foreclosed and the second one that got the
>> remainder) didn't even ask for the keys. They never stepped inside.
>> The new owner from the auction got a set of keys from real estate
>> office that had been trying to sell it before the owners skipped the
>> country.
> 
> HUD foreclosed homes are inspected before sale. The prospective buyer 
> can look at HUD's Property Condition Report before bidding. 

Um. not in c(r)ook county IL best as I can tell. Unless it's just a walk 
around the outside. Because there's no way they inspected the inside of 
the foreclosure I've had experience with.... and they certainly didn't 
inspect this one: 
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-sun_fraud_0224feb24,0,5031285.story

"The new buyers of a rundown graystone on the South Side showed up Jan. 9 
to look at the house they won at a foreclosure auction. They took the 
plywood off the front door and went inside to make sure the utilities had 
been shut off. Then they called the police.

Sitting upright in the corner of a bedroom off the kitchen was a human 
skeleton in a red tracksuit. Next to him lay a dead dog. Neighbors told 
police the corpse was almost certainly Randy Johnson, a middle-age man 
who lived alone in the North Kenwood house."