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The number of foreclosure filings is increasing and cases once dismissed for flawed paperwork are back. Now, notices will be hitting area mailboxes soon.   

Suzette Woodard works for the Lee County Clerk’s Office. She has been filing envelopes – notices to owners that their homes are being foreclosed on.

Lee County Clerk of Courts Charlie Green has been going over the numbers.

He says foreclosure filings are almost double what they were last year. Now he’s worried about a case backlog

“I think we’ll be able to use some dollars that we just got from the state to probably work with the judges to clean up some of it, so it doesn’t get backlogged,” he said.

The bulk of the notices are re-filings – cases that had to be dismissed earlier because of flawed paperwork by the lenders.

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