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[Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>]

At 6/3/2007, you wrote:
> Folks, unethical, unprofessional practices are only diminished if
> customers and clients refuse to accept them. If jerks are allowed to
> skate on bad behavior, it will continue. Go after them, or be guilty
> of contributing to continued bad behavior.

There is an article in today's paper about some fraud in San Diego.  It 
seems a realtor and an appraisal agent conspire to appraise a house well 
above its real worth, $50 to $100 thousand.  Then they get a loan, take 
back most of the excess from the seller, then the buyer lets the house 
foreclose.  The seller does this with several houses at once because one or 
many foreclosures has the same affect on the credit rating.

The seller gets extra money, the agent gets a larger commission plus some 
of the excess, the buyer gets extra cash, and the appraiser takes away a 
chunk.  Everyone thinks they made out.



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I just agreed to purchase a 12x60 single wide for
$800.00.   As you can guess this is not too pleasant
inside.   We plan to live in it only until I can find
a house to move or can build one.  My question any
creative ideas on what to do?   Example I need to
replace a lot of the standard mobile home panels.  Am
looking for creative ways to do walls, floors and
maybe ceiling.  Possible something I can recycle.  
This does not have to look like anything "typical" if
it can be interesting and attractive.   I have a few
ideas but I'm someone here might come up with
something that I would never think about.
I may wind up removing interior walls and trying to
make the inside space livable as a single large room.
considering building a shed over so to have an open
porch on one side and the other to be a semi enclosed
back porch / mudroom.  But all this is conjecture
right now.
Van Dell