Article Contributed on: 6/29/2009 9:52:00 AM
The weekly updates for foreclosures in Longmont, CO will now be on their own website. Here's the link:
Longmont Foreclosures
(
http://longmontforeclosures.blogspot.com)
Add it to your bookmarks, favorites, and RSS feeds.
Here's a peek at this weeks map:
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=111349672941695032576.000467df8352260ac650e&source=embed&ll=40.176906,-105.104141&spn=0.081712,0.154495&z=13
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Blue= 4/11/09
16 new entries (
41 total)
Red= 4/18/09
20 new entries (
55 total)
Green= 4/25/09
8 new entries (
47 total)
Yellow= 5/2/09
9 new entries (
48 total)
Purple-5/9/09
13 new entries (
62 total)
Magenta-5/16/09
9 new entries (
56 total)
Blue(pin)-5/23/09
16 new entries (
52 total)
Red(pin)-5/30/09
15 new entries (
62 total)
Green(pin)-6/6/09
9 new entries (
63 total)
Yellow(pin)-6/13/09
9 new entries (
57 total)
Purple(pin)-6/20/09
14 new entries (
62 total)
Magenta(pin)-6/27/09
13 new entries (
55 total)
Breakdown by Ward since I started keeping track (4/11/09)
Ward 1=
69 (Councilmember:
Brian Hansen, most foreclosures-least responsive)
Ward 2=
54 (Councilmember:
Karen Benker, up for re-election Nov '09)
Ward 3=
37 (Councilmember:
Sean McCoy, rumored Mayoral candidate Nov '09)
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A pretty bad week for
Ward 1 with
6 new foreclosures. Once again there were a couple of foreclosures with Longmont addresses but not in the city limits, and 2 old foreclosures started a new 8 week run in the paper for some reason.
The
Times-Call put out an editorial today basically saying "
keep hope alive" or something. I guess they don't look at their own Classified section with all of these foreclosures. It takes up pages D5 through D19 this week, seems to be about half of the entire paper. But I guess if they heard about some people who
feel that things are turning around or are
hopeful, we should just go ahead and ignore these foreclosure numbers and the unemployment that shows no sign of slowing. Optimism is fine, as long as it's with a dose of realism.
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