{"id":479135,"date":"2026-10-28T09:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T09:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/479135\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T09:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T09:32:09","slug":"how-can-homes-sit-empty-in-the-middle-of-a-shortage-news-radio-1200-woai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/479135\/","title":{"rendered":"How Can Homes Sit Empty In the Middle of a Shortage? | News Radio 1200 WOAI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been a lot of stress on the markets for homes over the past several years, and it&#8217;s been leading to what some economists call &#8220;dislocation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One example might be the high cost of houses that continues while a large number of homes are sitting alone and empty, but investors don&#8217;t want the empty houses and most homebuyers don&#8217;t either, so money is going into new homes.<\/p>\n<p>Lance Thrailkill, the CEO of All Metals Fabricating, says people don&#8217;t want &#8220;fixer-upper&#8221; homes like they used to, so many just sit waiting for a buyer with a creative plan to bring the homes back to life and up to date.<\/p>\n<p>And just because a home is empty doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s available to buy, he says, because &#8220;some of them are second homes and some are rental homes, so the basic can sometimes be misleading on what&#8217;s going to be done with these homes. <\/p>\n<p>And the length of time it takes for probate, should there be a death among the owners of the home, or foreclosure, should owners file for bankruptcy or otherwise default, can take months or years, it&#8217;s noted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s been a lot of stress on the markets for homes over the past several years, and it&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6920,6919,6918,6921,223,82,84,83,154,1594,272,172],"class_list":["post-479135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-charity-mccurdy","tag-charlie-parker","tag-chris-duel","tag-mr-t","tag-news","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-sports","tag-spurs","tag-traffic","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}