This episode of Reveal takes you into the world of people who are still profiting from America’s housing bust, from rent-to-own investors in Detroit to President Donald Trump’s best friend, a real estate mogul.
One of President Donald Trump’s closest friends and confidants took advantage of the Great Recession to build an unprecedented real estate business that makes him tantamount to a modern-day slumlord – buying up homes, bumping up rents and allowing the properties to fall into disrepair.
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