FEMA is selling off used trailers
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A year and a half after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, FEMA is auctioning off at fire-sale prices thousands of trailers used by storm victims, raising fears among mobile-home dealers that the government will flood the market and depress prices.
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In the two years since the federal government's largest home-selling agencies combined their sales listings onto one Internet site, http://www.homesales.gov/, the portal has done a brisk business in liquidating the good, the bad and the ugly from Uncle Sam's property inventory, agency officials say.
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A few years ago, a classified ad for Andrew Davis's 2001 Mitsubishi Montero SUV might have been limited to two lines of descriptive shorthand: A/C, pwr pkg, 6cyl AT, 2wd, $9k firm.
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Government tries to limit TV advertising and sales along highways
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Steve Madden's on sale -- shoes can be dangerous business for investors.
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After nearly two years, thousands of truck miles and $12.5 million in storage costs, a cold relic of the flawed Hurricane Katrina relief effort is going down the drain.
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By Joshua Norman, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Dec. 13--GULFPORT -- Construction on the controversial FEMA trailer park site on John Hill Boulevard has been suspended, a FEMA spokesman said.
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After downplaying the risks for months, the Federal Emergency Management Agency said Thursday it will rush to move Gulf Coast hurricane victims out of roughly 35,000 government-issued trailers because tests found dangerous levels of formaldehyde fumes.
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Blog: Web site lets people post classified videos
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By Bruce Henderson, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Feb. 8--For the second time in a year, the Bush administration wants to sell off parts of the Carolinas' national forests.   More than 10,000 acres in the two states are among 273,000 acres the administration would sell nationwide.
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The government has no plans to move at least half of the 10,000 emergency housing trailers sitting empty in Hope, Ark., saying they may be needed for the 2006 hurricane season.
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By Karen Nelson, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Dec. 11--OCEAN SPRINGS -- The surge-damaged home of Robert Wiygul and Julia Weaver will be dismantled in January and many of its parts distributed to Coast people who need building materials.   It could start a trend.
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Move follows government's failure to to find buyer for stricken mortgage lender
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A handmade dress worn by Destiny's Child, a poster signed by Jennifer Lopez and a guitar signed by Wyclef Jean are on sale in an MTV internet auction to raise money for hurricane victims in the Caribbean.
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Housing starts have been very high relative to the number of homes that builders are trying to sell.
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FEMA will replace locks on as many as 118,000 trailers used by Gulf Coast hurricane victims after discovering the same key could open many of the mobile homes.
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HAMMOND, La., March 4 -- The Federal Emergency Management Agency on Sunday abruptly closed down a trailer site housing Hurricane Katrina victims  because of health and safety concerns. Its  residents said they were once again being left in the lurch since losing everything after the storm hit on...