Bristol Palin buys 5-bedroom Arizona home

According to The Arizona Republic, Bristol Palin purchased a home in Maricopa, Arizona, this month. Maricopa was given the dubious distinction of being called a "poster child of the housing crisis" by a 2008 ABC Nightline report on the real estate crash. Records show Bristol's new five-bedroom, 4000-square-foot house was built in 2006 and first bought for $329,560 -- then the market crash, and it became a foreclosure investment for a couple from North Dakota, who sold the property to Bristol for $172,000 in cash. The Republic was unable to learn whether Bristol is going to be "a young snowbird" or plans to make the property her primary residence. Read more, here.