Da roof is on fire

Readers are interested in the new house/old house, so here's a new house thread. The old house was foreclosed on in July 2009. They moved into the new house in August 2009. Here's some links for you, thanks to our commenters:

New house:

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Old house foreclosure:

http://i46.tinypic.com/15p3g39.png

So the question remains: How does someone have at least one, and possibly two, foreclosures on their credit history in less than 9 months, and still manage to buy a brand new house three times the size of their "lake house" and worth half a million dollars?