Foreclosure...my neighbor too

Well, as I look outside everyday for the tell tale sign for southern California foreclosure: brown grass., or as I like to call it, another dead soldier. I even have my real estate agent calling it that now. I drive around the neighborhood everyday looking for browning grass, as I know that's the next foreclosure. I would think most of my neighborhood will be eventually going through it. We all bought the houses at 25 percent higher than they are selling for now. They're still being built.

So today I saw another sign of foreclosure in the neighberhood; the person driving around looking for addresses, and then finding it, and taking photos of the foreclosing house. This must be a booming business, taking pictures of foreclosures. My wife and I stopped and talked to the guy taking pictures of ours. We asked him if we could have the whole family in the foreclosure picture. He said no, to our chagrin.

My next door neighbor got his house photographed today. I did notice the browning grass. Why pay to have your grass green and not pay your mortgage? I actually have turned my sprinklers back on, because the kids were complaining of "crunchy grass". Brown grass hurts on bare feet. Another experience of the foreclosure.