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    ForeclosurePorn

    By encinoman

    &;Bank owned home!&; screamed the sign.  I turned the Mustang up the street and joined dozens of other lookie-loos staring at the (mostly) empty Studio City house. The search for a REO has become the new status symbol.  It&;s also pornographic in the voyeuristic allure of going through  a very recently vacated home and staring at the left behind possessions of the former owners, while fantasizing about their lives and what brought them to this.  Sometimes its pretty clear; the Tarzana house I looked at last week turned out to have a $596,000 mortgage&;and a $251,000 second! The banks were still fighting over what they would recover while the moving truck came.   The Studio City house (at least with REOs realtors dispense with calling them &;homes&;) seemed to not only satisfy people&;s pornographic fantasies of the absolute lowest price, but may have belonged to porn people as well, judging (and I&;m not judging) by the framed 8&;10 theatre cards of &;Desire&; and the like, showing a pair getting down.  (Perhaps the home&;s female owner?) At least they managed to break out of the Canoga Park/Van Nuys porn ghetto, before they crashed back down to earth.  I found a Guess watch in the yard and thought of putting it in my pocket.  My son said, &;I wouldn&;t touch anything here.&;  He&;s smarter than me, and it also seemed like bad karma to swipe abandoned foreclosed possessions, so I left the watch, the porno placards and a burned copy of The Joy of Sex sitting there.

    Tags: foreclosures, losing-houses

    This entry was posted on June 26, 2009 at 1:29 am and is filed under Los Angeles in the Movies, Los-Angeles, Uncategorized.

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