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Zombie mortgages are coming back to life

2024-05-10 00:00:00 +0000 UTC ·30m 55s ·by NPR
Zombie mortgages are coming back to life
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About this episode

Karen McDonough of Quincy, Mass., was enjoying her tea one morning in the dining room when she saw something odd outside her window: a group of people gathering on her lawn. A man with a clipboard told her that her home no longer belonged to her. It didn’t matter that she’d been paying her mortgage