9 Articles match "2008","America","Owned"

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• Will Main Street Sink Wall Street?
  
  The near-collapse of the two Bear Stearns hedge funds proves that the depth of America’s foreclosure fiasco is far from over. Fear and anxiety could trigger a massive sell-off, exposing other Wall Street financial institutions to the same excesses of America’s housing bubble on Main Street. While struggling borrowers are left to their own fate, Bear’s subprime blood bath might be a dress rehearsal for something bigger and scarier. Mounting mortgage defaults by American homeowners with shaky credit have claimed their first Wall Street casualty, as investment banking giant Bear Stearns shuffled the leadership of its asset-management division and lost billions in the risky hedge fund market last month.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Foreclosures in Money's 'Best Places to Live'
  
  Money magazine came out last week with another of its Top 10 lists; this one called "America’s Best Places to Live 2006 ." According to the latest data on the RealtyTrac website, Fort Collins has only 20 properties in the pre-foreclosure stage, but 226 properties are ready to go to auction and another 156 are bank owned (REO). And the winner is . . . Fort Collins, Colorado.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Lenders help their customers curb foreclosures
  
  Bank of America Corp. NovaStar also is working on a test program with Option One Mortgage, owned by H&R Block Inc., As borrowers falling behind on their mortgage payments increase in number, they are getting help form an unlikely source — the mortgage industry. Banks are increasingly testing new strategies to help curb mortgage delinquencies .
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Customers, Employees Credited for RealtyTrac's Deloitte Fast 50 Ranking
  
  This latest award comes on the heels of RealtyTrac’s selection in August as the 53rd fastest growing privately-held company in America by Inc. Once again we would like to thank our customers for believing in our products and services, and investing your hard-earned dollars with us to either grow your business, or to find that piece of the American Dream you have longed to own at a more affordable price than you would pay on the open market without utilizing RealtyTrac. RealtyTrac was named to the Technology Fast 50 list for 2006 by the accounting firm of Deloitte & Touche USA LLP at an awards ceremony held Tuesday.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• March Mania and RealtyTrac's Sweet 16 Foreclosure List
  
  Trenton, NJ — Opening Bid: $83,700 MIDWEST REGION SEMIFINAL With bank-owned houses cheaper than a used car in Detroit, Michigan and Columbus, Ohio, why not buy the whole block? Don’t miss next weeks tip off, when RealtyTrac announces America’s “Elite Eight” — a fast break list of the most expensive foreclosures in the nation. Posted 03-23-2007 4:38 PM by Octavio Each spring brings the beginning of the real estate sales season and the end of college basketball, culminating with March Mania and the much awaited NCAA Sweet 16 playoff.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Federal Lifeline DOA for Most People
  
  They would not be the first people in America stuck in that situation. But don’t expect us — the hardworking taxpayers of America — to bail them out of a situation they shouldn’t have gotten themselves into in the first place. We all have our own financial concerns to deal with in these troubling times. After listening to NBC Senior Correspondent Lisa Myers’ story on The Today Show last week, I am more convinced than ever that, as the old saying goes, people want their cake and to eat it too! In my personal opinion*, that’s not going
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Not Enough Rope in Administration's Lifeline' Program
  
  The Administration has encouraged six of the nation’s largest lenders — Bank of America, Citigroup, Countrywide Financial Corp., This group of people is probably the one which needs this program the most, so long as they reaffirm their desire to continue to own the home. Just a few short months ago President Bush stood in front of the press and swore that it was not the federal government’s job to bail out either lenders who made bad loans or speculative homebuyers who purchased more home than they could rightly afford utilizing the so-called “exotic” or “liar loans” popularized over the past few years.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• As Home Prices Plummet, When Will You Buy?
  
  If renters see little incentive to rent rather than owning a house, they will start buying. We sold a condo and bought a single-family home.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Another Approach to $700 Billion Bailout
  
  Stop fanning the fantasy of the “American Dream” of owning an outrageous debt for the next 30 years.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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