Post and top photo by the Hawthorne Hawkman. Bottom photo from Paul Koenig's now-defunct blog.
When a property becomes owned by a slumlord, or is touched by mortgage fraud, that property is quite unlikely to immediately go back into the hands of a quality owner - whether the house is homesteaded or not. It's been long enough since the "One Man Housing Crisis" of Koenig/Pamiko/Marklee Construction/MCK Investments/Dream Homes/Did I forget any LLC? collapsed on itself, so its time to take a look at where those houses ended up, starting with...