As the foreclosure crisis escalates, evictions are on the rise nationwide. But statistics don't capture the human drama involved in each of these cases, from the homeowners who suddenly find themselves and their possessions on the curb, to the law enforcement officials charged with supervising the process. "Until you're physically out there, you can't really get the magnitude of what you're actually up to," says Cook County, Ill., Sheriff Thomas Dart. "It sounds like it's an antiseptic process, and it's anything but." Here, a Colorado Springs property manager breaks down a tenant's door during an eviction Feb. 26.

 
 
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  • Posted By: wanderson9697 @ 08/25/2009 1:06:43 PM

    Now is not the time to be lecturing our fellow Americans on what they should have done, versus what they did. Yes, many got in over their heads, but none of us are without mistakes! Everyone needs to REALLY look at these pictures! These are the citizens of our once great country being put out on the street. Its devastating! And some of these people, such as the renter, did NOTHING wrong! Someone please tell me what mistake she made by paying her rent to her landlord every month, only to have him/her turn around and default on the mortgage! These photos make me want to cry! None of these people make a big enough mistake that they deserve to be left on the streets, cold, hungry and forgotten! And if you think they DO deserve this, then there is nothing ANYONE can say to change your mind, so I'm not even going to bother. I'm not happy that so many people bought more than they could afford, but the banks/lenders are more to blame than anyone! And theres nothing anyone can do about it now, except come together and lend a helping hand! You may be pissed because your neighbor couldn't afford the house next to you and now its being foreclosed, but they are still your neighbor, and they are still human, so stop treating these people like animals! Maybe we should all do a little more helping and a little less bitching! Okay, I'm done.....

  • Posted By: ursula2 @ 04/05/2009 8:38:52 PM

    well with the evictions is this. greed. the rents everybody is paying is absurd. what are we renting ? a palace? rents need to be low so that regular people can pay them, apartment owners never worked for them they got passed down to them by their ancestors. tehy have no idea what it means to live from paycheck to paycheck. now the greed is strangling them and tehy blame it on the renters, nice try. i wasnt born yesterday,ladies and gentlemen!

  • Posted By: ursula2 @ 04/05/2009 8:33:06 PM

    the evictions are rediculis. the big people mess up and they lash back on the regular population. the landlords are punishing the poeple who try to make a linving. the only way they got their property is from inheridancce. they got it from the realtive or family member (passed down) they didnt work for it. wake up! they are too lazy to work. they dont have to, and if they cant get any more money they blame the renters, well, reduce your rent the way i tjused to be, perhaps you can rent out again, greed doesnt pay it strangels you in the end,. they way rents are, what are we renting a palace?

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