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5 min readForeclosure Filings Hit 40,000 as Bond Yields Flash 2007-Level Warnings
The numbers are stark and climbing. In August 2026, 40,277 properties in the United States received foreclosure filings—default notices, scheduled auctions, or bank repossessions. That is a 1% increase from July's 39,000 filings and a 13% jump year-over-year from 2025. Host Eric Bird, speaking on the Stop Struggling Now podcast, presents these figures not as speculation but as the predictable outcome of policy choices made years earlier. The national foreclosure rate now stands at one in every 3,569 housing units, with South Carolina leading at one in every 1,547 homes, followed by Nevada, Florida, Texas, and Indiana. Bird's central argument is that this wave is only beginning, driven by adjustable-rate mortgages resetting to much higher payments, a bond yield crisis that pushes mortgage rates higher, and structural economic damage from tariffs and immigration enforcement that has removed workers from farms and food supply chains.
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- 1 (00:59) **Episode Opening & Thesis** - Host Eric Bird sets the stage: a foreclosure, housing, and bond yield crisis is unfolding as predicted two years and nine months ago.
- 2 (03:27) **Foreclosure Data: 40,000 Filings in August 2026** - Eric presents the central evidence: 40,277 new foreclosure filings in August, up 1% from July and 13% year-over-year.
- 3 (19:00) **Opportunity in Bank Repossessions** - Eric pivots from warning to solution, advising viewers to prepare for a wave of REO (Real Estate Owned) properties.
- 4 (24:00) **Don't Bid Against Yourself: Real Estate Strategy** - Eric delivers a masterclass on negotiating in a buyer's market.
- 5 (31:50) **Waste, Fraud, and Abuse: HBCU Scam** - Eric highlights a federal fraud investigation into a $70 million land lease deal involving St. Augustine's University and Allen University.
- 6 (41:00) **Surveillance State: Amazon's Delivery Glasses** - Eric warns about Amazon's AI-powered delivery glasses that record real-time navigation and delivery instructions.
- 7 (48:00) **Food Crisis & Data Center Pollution** - Eric connects the removal of farm workers, toxic food imports, and water-intensive data centers to a coming public health crisis.
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