Obama’s Chicago home gets foreclosed

Via Actual Grit:

CHICAGO, IL – President Obama’s Chicago homecoming on Wednesday was less welcoming than he expected, as Obama was shocked to learn his Hyde Park residence had been foreclosed upon some time last year.  Obama was in Chicago for a series of fundraisers and decided to visit his old home, only to discover the locks had been changed and a new family had moved in.

Since his inauguration, President Obama had neglected to make a single payment on the home he’d shared with his wife and two daughters, while the house itself fell into grave disrepair.

“The place started to become a real eyesore,” said Kevin Deckman, who owns a home on the opposite side of the street from the former Obama residence.  “The lawn was nothing but weeds, and there were a bunch of stray cats that would come and go through an open window, I think.  It was a real health hazard.

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Daniel Broyles, a spinal surgeon at the University of Chicago Medical Center, purchased the former Obama home at a foreclosure auction last May and was headed to his kitchen Wednesday night when he caught the president trying to jimmy open the side door with a credit card.  “He came through the door, and we both had this moment where we were looking at each other like, ‘What are you doing?’”  When Broyles explained to Obama the circumstances by which he came to own the house, the president apologized and left.

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