Waiting for the light at routes 10 and 34. Something about pictures from vehicles keeps fascinating me. And how often do you see a large, windowless Federal Marshal's truck out on city streets?
Are these the guys who keep order during sheriFf's evictions from really upscale houses that have been foreclosed on? I've been meaning to ask, since you have been keeping tabs on visible signs of the economic meltdown in CT -- could you by careful selection assemble a set of pictures from your area just as distressing as those from Cleveland and South Florida? How visible is that evidence?
First, yes, marshals are involved in foreclosures/evictions and also in serving civil legal papers. Also transporting jailed prisoners to court.
Second, no, not without distorting the record. Rural and suburban CT is nothing like Detroit, although foreclosure sale notices keep going up and down in front of certain houses--something I've never seen here before. Even Waterbury seems no more depressed than usual. Perhaps there was no bubble there and so no crash.
There are a lot of McMansions built on spec during the bubble that have been sitting unsold but I haven't seen them going into foreclosure yet. I may find different, more Detroit-like results in Bridgeport and Hartford.
New Haven, Connecticut
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Are these the guys who keep order during sheriFf's evictions from really upscale houses that have been foreclosed on? I've been meaning to ask, since you have been keeping tabs on visible signs of the economic meltdown in CT -- could you by careful selection assemble a set of pictures from your area just as distressing as those from Cleveland and South Florida? How visible is that evidence?
scott
Scott,
First, yes, marshals are involved in foreclosures/evictions and also in serving civil legal papers. Also transporting jailed prisoners to court.
Second, no, not without distorting the record. Rural and suburban CT is nothing like Detroit, although foreclosure sale notices keep going up and down in front of certain houses--something I've never seen here before. Even Waterbury seems no more depressed than usual. Perhaps there was no bubble there and so no crash.
There are a lot of McMansions built on spec during the bubble that have been sitting unsold but I haven't seen them going into foreclosure yet. I may find different, more Detroit-like results in Bridgeport and Hartford.
I would just be waiting for a SWAT team to jump out the back door.
Something along those lines DID occur to me...
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