Out of the top 25 cities, Sacramento is number 4 on the list. Number 4 in what, you say? Foreclosures. Number 4 in foreclosures.

Perhaps you noticed that house across the street, vacant now for several months? Or maybe the grass grew so tall it nearly overtook the realtor’s sign on the front lawn?

Whether you think it’s because of “creative financing” or the inability of the homeowner to budget, it’s not good for anyone. If home ownership is the pinnacle of security and comfort, losing that home must be the pits.

Meanwhile Sacramento makes the news in another foreclosure article.

In and around Sacramento, Calif., mosquitoes that may carry the deadly West Nile virus are thriving in the thousands of uncared-for swimming pools on properties left vacant by slower home sales and rising foreclosures. With 30,505 foreclosure filings reported in April, California documented the largest foreclosure total in the country for the fourth month in a row, according to RealtyTrac.

Not only are we up with the best of them in the foreclosure world, but now we gotta worry about the vacant house spawning a mosquito-fest. It’s enough to make you want to sit in your rocking chair with the blinds drawn and do nothing but watch infomercials until you doze off.

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