It’s a cold piece of work. It’s preying on hard times.

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http://www.projo.com/news/bobkerr/kerr_column_04_09-04-11_STQ2OIE_v14.834de.html

Bob Kerr: Mining misfortune, preying on hard times and making some money

01:00 AM EDT on Sunday, September 4, 2011

People caught in the really low-down, predatory hustle of home foreclosure often find strangers at their door.

One came to Don and Leslie McGee’s door on Constitution Street, in Providence, a couple of months ago. He drove a Mercedes and didn’t introduce himself. He said he represented the new owner of the house and wanted to look around.

The McGees said no. They considered themselves the owners of the house, which Leslie says she inherited from her mother. snip

It’s just business, of course. It’s the kind of business where people just show up at the door and say “let me in.”

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1. it is encroaching

Quickly.