Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky are under siege being overwhelmed with hundreds of foreclosed units. The cities are being forced to bear costs of maintaining or demolishing these foreclosed properties. Banks from outside the state, who are the legal owners, have abandoned the houses. Cincinnati has boarded up some houses and ordered the demolishing of [...]

Foreclosures need not necessarily be inevitable. There are many escape avenues and options before the patient and persevering borrowing who is determined not to give up the house. The important fact is time. The earlier the action the better will be the chances of getting a reprieve, says Darren Hamm of Neighborhood Hosing Services, Greater [...]