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This article from the Chicago Tribune gives a bizarre account of a property that changed hands 3 times with the owner’s dead son still inside.

It begins like so:

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….

Read it HERE

And who was behind the loan? Countrywide.  No surprise there.  I think I mentioned this in a previous blog, but I had a friend come to me for a refi and I knew the reason that he wanted to refi was because he was out of work and didnt have any money.  He needed money from his house to pay his bills, and ironically his house payment.  The next time I spoke with him he told me Countrywide gave him the loan.  Yeah, and it won’t surprise me if Countrywide ends up with his house.