On Sat, 30 May 2015 02:05:19 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> wrote:

> I have no clue where you got that information from. Homes can be vacant for
> many reasons. Perhaps they are unsafe. Like full of black mold or
> something. Sometimes the seller is asking for too much money. They might
> be located in a high crime area so people don't want to live there. Or in
> the case of some cities/towns here, have no jobs in the area. Not even
> anything available for a reasonable commute.

They can be foreclosed homes and the bank isn't in any hurry to sell.
The owner can be in a home of some sort and the heirs want to wait
until they die to sell the house, due to high capital gains taxes. A
lot of the country is still recovering from the housing bust (look no
farther than where Jill lives to understand that). Entire bedroom
communities were bulldozed in fly over country a few years ago.

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