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National Registration For Loan Officers Becomes Reality
The Secure and Fair Enforcement for Mortgage Licensing Act of 2008 , part of the FHA reform bill, sets in place national standards for mortgage loan officers. study by the Miami Herald found that just in Florida “from 2000 to 2007, regulators allowed at least 10,529 people with criminal records to work in the mortgage profession. For instance, it may well be that lender Johnson has a 15-percent foreclosure rate. National Registration For Loan Officers Becomes Reality By Peter G. Miller What do you know about your loan
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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Florida Homeowners Overconfident Despite Foreclosures?
Results of a new study released last week by Attorneys Title Insurance Fund (The Fund) suggests that Florida homeowners are feeling pretty good nowadays about the value of their homes and the potential for those values to rise further in the future. Their least concern: falling victim to mortgage fraud -- even though the survey says that Florida is the top state in the nation for such fraud (something that is, unfortunately, always associated with real estate investors working in the foreclosure arena). Their biggest concern: being hit by a hurricane. Between those two extremes,
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Coastal Disasters = More Foreclosures?
For anyone who has lived through a natural disaster, the recent tornadoes in Central Florida and the horrific aftermath left behind — approximately 1,500 structures destroyed and 20 people killed — brings back memories of more than just the great need for disaster relief from the federal government (FEMA). It doesn’t matter if you’re living in Florida or California — coastal property is expensive and so are the insurance premiums that go with them. It also brings back bad memories of dealing with insurance companies and very slow claims service. Back in 1994 something called “The
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Fannie: Q1 a Swift Kick in the Rear
It may have been created and chartered by the federal government, but Fannie Mae (the Federal National Mortgage Association) is first and foremost a private company responsible to shareholders for running at a profit. CNNMoney reported last Tuesday that Fannie’s CEO Daniel Mudd is optimistic overall about the company’s future, but sees more challenges lying ahead for the rest of 2008 and possibly beyond. “As And as with many corporations in this country, the national economy is kicking Fannie around…fast and hard! One of the nation’s two Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSEs), Fannie reported a first quarter net loss of $2.2
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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I'll Take Sour Cream and Chives
Nowadays, I may have to add a side of presidential politics too! The five: California, Florida (the hanging chad capital of the western world), Michigan, Ohio and Georgia. Just an FYI: in the upcoming 2008 presidential election, California will have 55 electoral votes, Florida 27, Michigan 17, Ohio 20 and Georgia 15. No butter for me. Personally, I like my hot baked potato covered with sour cream and chives.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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More Powerful Than a Foreclosure
rdquo; So much for old ‘60s TV shows! In today’s world where foreclosure numbers are running rampant, especially in parts of Florida (where 37,364 properties with foreclosure filings were reported in May), distressed homeowners could use a superhero of their own to help them avoid or stop the foreclosure process. Florida posted the second highest foreclosure total and fourth highest foreclosure rate in the nation for May, with one in every 228 households receiving a foreclosure filing during the month. “Faster than a speeding bullet. More powerful
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Foreclosure Filings Soar 90 Percent
foreclosure filings surged 90 percent in May from a year earlier as more homeowners fell behind on their monthly mortgage payments, reported RealtyTrac . There were 176,137 foreclosure filings in May, up 19 percent from April. Top 10 Foreclosure Total Ranked by the number of foreclosure filings, California topped the list, with 39,659 in May, and Florida was number two, with 21,704, according to RealtyTrac’s report. A growing number of American homeowners across the country are getting foreclosure notices, according to new data released this week by RealtyTrac.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Bank-Repossession Beat Continues in March
The lender also has to agree to the DIL arrangement, which may involve clearing out other liens secured by the property. But that may be better than the alternative — a costly and lengthy process that will quite likely end with the bank repossessing the property anyway. The year-over-year increase in bank repossessions was even more dramatic in some states: 619 percent in Arizona; 597 percent in New York; 557 percent in California; and 464 percent in Florida. For the third month in a row U.S. foreclosure activity registered at more than 50 percent above the level it was at a year
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Burning Down the House
Foreclosures nationwide are heating up, especially in once-supercharged real estate bubbles like Florida, California, Nevada and Arizona. As foreclosures continue to rise, tragic stories like the case against the Gaines Township woman may grow as well. For many real estate investors, the foreclosure market is smoking. But in Michigan, where foreclosures are widespread and a hot market for real estate investors, people are burning down the homes to avoid foreclosure . . .
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Housing glut gives foreclosure buyers and investors advantage
The biggest declines were in Florida-Sarasota-Bradenton (down 18 percent), Palm Bay-Melbourne (17 percent) and Cape Coral-Fort Myers (12 percent). At the same time, Nevada sales plunged 36 percent, while Florida posted a decline of 31 percent. That suggests that prices may have to fall further for sales to pick up and the overall housing market to recover. Storm clouds are gathering over the nation’s battered housing market. Depending on whom you ask, the forecast calls for either thunderstorms or gale force hurricane winds.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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FBI: Mortgage Fraud Begets Foreclosure
The correlation is apparent in the report’s list of the top states for mortgage fraud: California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Texas, and Utah. In extreme instances, perpetrators may sell the home or secure a second loan without the homeowners’ knowledge, stripping the property’s equity for personal enrichment.” More states are enacting legislation to protect homeowners against such fraud, and justifiably so. The FBI recently came out with its 2006 Mortgage Fraud Report , which somewhat anticlimactically concludes that there is “a strong correlation between mortgage fraud and loans which result in default or foreclosure.”
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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