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Buyer of Foreclosed Properties Says He's Outgrown Original Operation

When "Nightline" first met Odell Barnes, the man known to some as the Foreclosure King, he was on his cell phone constantly, buying foreclosed homes by the dozens from his front porch in South Carolina. A year later, he's still answering the phone, but he's off his porch and in Detroit. "It's too big for me," he said of the current housing crisis. "One thousand houses a week? It outgrows you." Sitting on another front porch -- this time at a burned-out house in Detroit -- Barnes has... Full Story
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