North Texas
(2009-07-09)
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There is a quirky update to the foreclosure story we brought you as part of our Economy Series kicking off this week.
At Tuesday's foreclosure auction, "Fred" - who declined to give his last name - managed to BUY the house he had been renting. That was after his landlady went bankrupt and the house went on the block.
Back on his quiet East Dallas street, neighbors are very pleased to know the house won't be vacant and boarded up. Lorine Johnson says after all it is the most famous house on that street - the boyhood home of a Heisman Trophy winner.
Johnson: Tim Brown was raised up in that house. He went to Woodrow. Then he went to Notre Dame, and then he started playing professional football. After he went professional, they moved to Oak Cliff and he bought his Mama a nice house.
Tim Brown spent 16 years as a record-setting wide receiver with the Raiders. Fred, who now owns the house, hopes to continue fixing it up.
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