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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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Screech from "Saved by the Bell" in Foreclosure
The Associated Press is reporting that actor Dustin Diamond from televisions "Saved by the Bell" is selling T-shirts to help bail his home out of foreclosure. "Diamond, 29, is trying to sell nearly 30,000 shirts – at $15 or $20 (autographed) each – to supplement the income he makes as a standup comic so he doesn’t have to move from his Port Washington home, about 25 miles north of Milwaukee." This is different from your typical foreclosur e because it doesnt involve a lender foreclosing on a defaulted loan; it involves a landowner foreclosing on a land contract, according to the
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Big Ben Is Finally Talking Foreclosures
million subprime loans (or approximately 40 percent of the outstanding stock of subprimes) were going to reset in 2008 from just above 8 percent to about 9.25 Or to utilize principal writedowns or short payoffs to help out homeowners with little or no equity left. At the national level he believes real relief that will stabilize the nation’s housing sector and help it recover will come with the support of such Big Ben Bernanke, that guy at the top of the nation’s financial food chain, finally admitted Tuesday in an address to a group of the nation’s community bankers that foreclosures are not going to go away anytime soon. The Fed Chief gave two reasons for the bleak forecast (both of which have been espoused in previous posts in this blog): 1) further declines in housing prices are expected; and 2) significant resets of adjustable interest rates to unaffordable levels for many borrowers who were convinced to take out the more risky loan products of the past few years.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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A Small Silver Lining in Q1 Foreclosure Storm
While foreclosure activity in the first quarter of 2008 was up on a year-over-year basis in 90 percent of the nations 100 largest metropolitan areas, according to the RealtyTrac Q1 report issued today, there were a few notable exceptions that could prove to be a harbinger of hope for the nations battered housing market. in March, spurred by investors taking advantage of low prices on foreclosed properties." On the other hand, those exceptions could just turn out to be a source of false hope, perpetuated in part by short-term foreclosure solutions that are about as effective as a five-gallon bailing bucket on the sinking Titanic.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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I'll Take Sour Cream and Chives
Just an FYI: in the upcoming 2008 presidential election, California will have 55 electoral votes, Florida 27, Michigan 17, Ohio 20 and Georgia 15. Edwards had to deflect some controversy last week as it was revealed that the former North Carolina senator reportedly has invested $16 million in a hedge fund involving subprime lenders that are presently foreclosing on homeowners in New Orleans after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. 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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BK' Doesn't Stand for Burger King
Gerdano, who expects consumer bankruptcies for 2008 to top 1 million, according to a Reuters report. As Bloomberg.com recently reported, the likelihood of Gerdano’s prediction coming to fruition is more than a possibility given that more than 90,000 bankruptcy filings were reported for March 2008 alone, a 30 percent increase from a year ago. Once the foreclosing lender gets clearance from the bankruptcy judge on the case by dismissing the stay on the foreclosure, the The only kind of whopper a person with this kind of ‘BK’ is going to get is a whopper of a headache.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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As Foreclosures Mount, Candidates React to the Credit Crisis
With mortgage foreclosures at historic highs, Democrats and Republicans are fighting over a political issue that could have major implications in the 2008 presidential campaign. Meanwhile, the rising flood of foreclosures promises to become a major presidential campaign issue in the weeks and months ahead because an alarming 2 million American homeowners could lose their homes by November 2008. Sensing an opportunity to win votes, the major presidential candidates have come out swinging; proposing a variety of prescriptions to ease the worsening housing slump.Both the White House and Democrat leaders in Congress agree that something must be done to stop the foreclosures.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Lenders Asked to Clean Up Unhealthy Foreclosures
One of the downsides of taking back foreclosed properties for the lender is the obligation and cost associated with managing those REOs — some of which are bound to be vacant for a while, especially with the extended time it is currently taking to sell real estate in the Golden State. Although West Nile Virus in particular may not be a nationwide medical crisis at the moment, this is a case where investors looking to purchase foreclosed properties which have sat vacant for some time would do well to have a property inspector come in and check out any water features the property may include.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Study Forecasts Rising Subprime Foreclosures
The center offers up proposed solutions to curb increasing foreclosures, including due diligence by lenders before a loan is approved to make sure the borrower is qualified to repay, regulation of predatory lending practices, and coordinated programs to help delinquent homeowners. Absent from the studys executive summary and proposed solutions are any mention of the borrower’s role in preventing foreclosed subprime loans. A new study released yesterday by the Center for Responsible Lending projects that one out of five subprime mortgages originated in the past two years will end in foreclosure, costing homeowners as much as $164 billion. “This rate is nearly double the projected rate of subprime loans made in 2002, and it exceeds the worst foreclosure experience in the modern mortgage market, which occurred during the “Oil Patch” disaster of the 1980s.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Jackson Takes a Final Bow at HUD
For President Bush this is a pretty significant blow, since Jackson was helping to spearhead the Administration’s efforts to increase homeownership nationwide, as well as dealing with the mortgage crisis which has befallen this country. These “HUD homes,” like any homes that go back to a lender who forecloses, are a good potential pool of resources for investors and wannabe homebuyers looking to purchase bargain real estate. Posted 04-02-2008 9:00 AM by joelc Filed under: Foreclosure Trends , Real Estate
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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