Reminders app location problem

I have two addresses setup in my "ME" contact (both on my mac and phone). One is home and one is work.  But there is a THIRD address (with a red pin next to it) on my iphone that shows up when I activate "Location" based reminders.  So there are FOUR options in my list:
current location
home
work
"Roberts Home" ....at a random address that I have never heard of and that is NOT in my address book. (With the RED PIN) <== I WANT TO DELETE THIS ADDRESS & PIN
So I neither know HOW this address got here (the lesser problem) or how to GET RID OF IT (the greater problem).
I thought that all location-based reminders had to be either at a "current location" or in an address in your address book?
Can anybody help other than suggesting that I reinstall the OS and then rebuilding my phone (instead of restoring from backup to avoid re-adding the offending PIN)? I can't see where this "PIN" might be saved...it doesn't show up on any maps, or bookmarks, or in my address book that I can find.
Thanks!

I was having a similar issue. There was a pin at a strange location that it thought was my address (in addition to Home and Work). It turned out that it was due to the Facebook app, which only has my city and state info for my address, and thus it put a pin near the middle of my city and called it my address. I went into Settings -> Facebook and disallowed Contacts to use my FB account. This made the pin disappear in Reminders. It also made the phone not know who I was in the contacts. Fix that by going to Settings -> Mail, Contacts, Calendars -> My Info and re-select yourself.
I hope this helps! If not Facebook, maybe you have another app linked to your contacts that's causing the erroneous pin.

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