Foreclosure pain is not over

During the real estate bust, Lee County was the center of the foreclosure crisis in Florida.

But an improving real estate market doesn't mean the pain is completely over.

According to data compiled by Jeff Tumbarello, the director of the Southwest Florida Real Estate Investors Association, Lee County still has a backlog of 9,122 active foreclosure cases in the courts as of April 30. That's roughly the same number as one year ago, when the backlog was 8,850.