Honeycomb House: Fresh foreclosure horrors

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Problems with empty, foreclosed, or otherwise house-poor homes once stopped at suburban sprawl and undervalued new real estate. Now there’s a new nightmare on the block: infestations.

When people can’t afford to keep up their home maintenance — or their homeowners’ insurance — infrastructure begins to decay. Squatters waiting out the recession in a home once worth a hundred thousand dollars find themselves in the midst of a homeowner’s nightmare as walls quickly crumble beyond repair.

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