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As homeowners scramble to avoid foreclosure, short sales are becoming more and more common. Los Angeles had 9,145 completed short sales in the second quarter 2011, reports RealtyTrac. Phoenix came in second in the number of completed short sales 8,434. RealtyTrac reports the ten metro areas in the country with the highest numbers of short sales for the second quarter of this year. They include:

 1. Los Angeles
 2. Phoenix
 3. Cape Coral Fort Myers, Florida
 4. Oxnard Thousand Oaks Ventura, California
 5. Reno Sparks, Nevada
 6. San Francisco
 7. San Jose
 8. Portland
 9. Atlanta
10. Milwaukee

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