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I'm an unsophisticated investor. That is probably the reason that I would not have ever "invested" in this building.
Michael Phillips/The Wall Street Journal
See photos of Ms. Halterman's former house.
Michael Phillips/The Wall Street Journal
See photos of Ms. Halterman's former house.
Would You Pay $103,000 for This Arizona Fixer-Upper? - WSJ.comLess than two years ago, Integrity Funding LLC, a local lender, gave a $103,000 mortgage to the owner, Marvene Halterman, an unemployed woman with a long list of creditors and, by her own account, a long history of drug and alcohol abuse. By the time the house went into foreclosure in August, Integrity had sold that loan to Wells Fargo & Co., which had sold it to a U.S. unit of HSBC Holdings PLC, which had packaged it with thousands of other risky mortgages and sold it in pieces to scores of investors.
Today, those investors will be lucky to get $15,000 back. That's only because the neighbors bought the house a few days ago, just to tear it down.