I don’t understand this story. The headline talks about 1.5 million properties, but the article says:
New York had the most zombie properties (2,428 ), followed by Florida (1,634), Illinois (985), Ohio (891) and New Jersey (463).
They quickly get to hundreds in each state. I can’t see how you could get more than 10,000 (less than 1% of the scary number in the headline) using these numbers.
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