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because you might get the property if the owner defaults. I understand that this is a possibility, and don't have any issue owning property. However, does this really happen often? I assume that most real estate has a mortgage, so would it not be in the banks best interest to buy you out and then f...

Basically in some states when a person is delinquent in paying their property taxes, a lien can be put on their property which can then in turn be sold to a private investor. The government gets their taxes to pay for things like schools immediately, and the investor gets to collect the delinquent t...

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Thanks! Don't mind if I yoink that company. ;D

Strange coincidence. I've been reading abut desaliniation for the past few days after visiting the Dead Sea and learning about the Red Dead project. Desalination is booming in the Middle East. Saudi Arabia and Israel produce most of their water using the process. The Red Sea will use the wastewater...

Well the Blue Nile accounts for about 90% of the flow and 96% of the sediment in the lower Nile. Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20060928124412/http://www.holivar2006.org/abstracts/pdf/T1-026.pdf While the White Nile is important, the Blue Nile has a much larger impact on the Nile both in flow a...

On Youtube there is a channel called Rare Earth that does some interesting mini-documentaries. I linked a video below that talks about the damming of the Nile river in Ethiopia. Ethiopia faces a lot of electrical issues like many developing nations. This new dam should provide a lot of the electrica...