Yet in the same period, only 30,823 foreclosures were resold, leaving about 20,000 bank repos unaccounted for. Realtors say foreclosures generally go on the market a month or two after the bank ...

Foreclosure document scandal grows, 'unimaginably bad' outcomes contemplated. Oct. 8, 2010— -- The nation's largest bank, Bank of America, stopped sales of foreclosed homes in all 50 states ...

In its 2012 suit against U.S. Bank, the city alleged that after an 18-month investigation it found problems with 1,500 foreclosed homes, citing more than 150 that had fallen into disrepair.

Banks do not handle this themselves, but before you can get a contract providing clean out services for a bank's foreclosures, you need to understand who hires the contractors and what they expect.