BAIL OUT BANK DEMOLISHES NEW MODEL HOMES- HOUSING MARKET COLLAPSE

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Victorville model homes being demolished.
BREAKING NEWS Developing: Another bank will begin the tear down of 20 Temecula homes in Southern California.

NEW HOMES DEMOLISHED
By Patrick Thatcher, staff writer for, Daily Press

Victorville- The housing collapse is taking a literal form for one bankrupt housing development.
Four model homes and 12 nearly finished spec homes at Bear Valley Road and Highway 395 are being demolished.
The developer filed bankruptcy about 18 months ago and the foreclosed property went to Guaranty Bank in Irvine.
A Guaranty Bank official, Real Estate Officer Dean Smith, said they were facing daily fines from the city of Victorville if they didnt do something with the homes and property that not up to code. He said it was a choice of pumping their own money into property site improvements and additional money to bring the home up to code or tear down the 16 homes.
Smith said the bank is not in the building or land development business and because of the current housing market does not see anything happening with the property for at least five years.
Our only option is to either proceed with putting more than a million bucks into the land, which weve already taken a huge hit on and lost a lot of money, or, we tear down the houses, Smith said.
He said the builder put up the homes before completing the site improvements and failed to have enough money to finish roads, walls, and other improvements that bring the community into code.
Everything just fell apart at that point and we cant sell homes that are not up to code, Smith said.
He said the city of Victorville fined the bank once because the home are out of code and would have faced daily fines if Guaranty didnt do something with the vacant houses.
There are still substantial dollars that need to be put into the land before the city of Victorville will give certificates of occupancy on the houses and the bank isnt willing to put forward that amount of money, Smith said.
He said the homes are a liability to Guaranty and that all of them are heavily vandalized inside and out with broken glass everywhere.
Our projections are that those houses would sit the way they are for at least five years, what would they be worth then? Smith said.
He said once the homes are demolished the property will be put on the market again. Calls to the developer were not returned.
Patrick Thatcher may be reached at 760-951-6227 or at pthatcher@VVDailyPress.com

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[LemmingHerda]

Mindnumbingly retarded waste, ...

[wheresmylife]

It's a waste, to be sure, but so are these over-sized American homes. Americans idolize big homes and fill them with more crap and gadgets than they need or can afford. The government and the economy are in the toilet to be sure, but the consuming public are just as much to blame for this mess. But, since we live in a "pass the buck" and "not me" society of people who act entitled to everything and who only care about themelves, this won't be a popular comment.

[michaelruiz12]

i dont understand why they keep building when they know people cant buy, thats why the market keeps crashing they keep spending to build what we cant buy

[ignatzRat]

the only loser i notice is justgetsome.....

[justgetsome]

@dieper2dieper ...why are you blaming the rich? it's not the rich that caused this it's the fact that middle class Americans lived beyond their means, mortgaged everything and now can't make the payments. The country is privately trillions of dollars in debt as well as publicly.

Rich people are rich because they don't have debt. Losers make and pay loans, it isn't CEOs making 2.5-5million a year that caused the financial crisis. It's ma and pa American who mortgaged the farm and can't pay.

[smith8051]

You made some good points there. I did a search on the topic and found most people will agree with your video.

[everythingisfake1973]

one of a million things thats wrong with the world today,and it to the pile!!

[3waybar]

yes, to prevent non-registered people from moving into an "economically" dead area

and to salvage the market price of surrounding areas

[TheyDidThis]

The banks should have to hand over all these properties to the tax payers since they got bailed out. What the hell is wrong with people. $24 trillion in bailouts was $60,000 usd for every American. I think that would have stimulated the economy from grassroots level up. Instead we just stimulated the pockets of some greedy criminals. Why isnt America in arms over this shit.

[SuperTruth77]

Recently I took part in a counselling programme for senior management at a major UK bank.

Many participants talked about the ‘shame’ they felt for being bailed out by taxpayers while still drawing huge salaries & bonuses. We were instructed to offer them solace, to assure them they were serving the community as good citizens & say they were helping to combat climate change & other vague eco-causes.

When I refused to toe the line & offered criticism, I was forced out.

[stickinup2188]

development goes back to farm.

[focus21x]

Yes, it is the bailout thing. Bail in the old bum.