Buying a house in a distressed situation, whether from the buyer in a pre-foreclosed status or from the lender or bank once foreclosed, is not very simple.
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Pre-foreclosure short sales were up 22% from a year earlier and short sales of distressed properties for which foreclosure filings had not yet commenced were up 17% over the same time.
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