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638 days

The average time it takes a mortgage lender in Florida to repossess a persons home. So many cases are backlogged that the state may cut the courts out of the foreclosure process to speed it up.

The average time it takes a mortgage lender in Florida to repossess a persons home. So many cases are backlogged that the state may cut the courts out of the foreclosure process to speed it up.

Caroline Cournoyer is GOVERNING's senior web editor.