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Published on April 22, 2008 at 1:38pm
"I've been so busy doing foreclosures, I've felt like quitting [the clinic], and doing it full time," Correa says. "Somebody's got to do it."
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Daniel Kramer
Victor Correa is thinking about quitting his day job to clean foreclosed homes full time.
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Paul Knight
The Bear Creek Meadows subdivision in northwest Houston has been hard hit by foreclosures.
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junk haulers, foreclosed homes, subprime mortgages, mortgage lenders, abandoned-home cleanupIn the last year and a half, Correa says he's learned a lot about the foreclosure market. He has even thought about getting his real estate license and selling the foreclosed homes after he clears them out.
But for now, Correa says, he'll stick with his moneymaker — cleaning out a foreclosed home and leaving it behind, quick to move on to the next.
"Foreclosures have been around forever, but it's such a big business now," Correa says. "This is the time."
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