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checking out the HUD houses

[Today’s run: 3.4 miles]

I was just checking out the HUD houses on the hudhomestore.com website.

I usually check out what is available in our area of Mississippi, Colorado, Iowa, sometimes up in Wyoming and Montana or down in New Mexico.

I was noticing that the number of homes for sale in Iowa seems to be much increased in the last few months.  It probably takes most of a year for a house to be foreclosed on and eventually appear on their sale site.  I don’t remember an economic crunch in Iowa, but maybe I missed it.

I saw a nice place in the country near Van Meter that looked like it had a couple of acres and only one neighboring house.  The other sides were cow pasture.  That’s kind of a surprise too, since the stuff in Dallas County has been growing so fast.  Maybe the place used to be a meth lab or something.