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• From $2B Bailout to $4B Buyout at Countrywide
  
  Just late last year Bank of America infused $2 billion into the coffers of Countrywide Financial to support the floundering lender’s attempt to survive the subprime mortgage mess — which reportedly almost forced the firm into filing for bankruptcy protection earlier this week. Now with Countrywide’s stock weak and its value depressed, it is being widely reported that Bank of America is paying $4 billion in stock to buy out the company — in which it already had a 16 percent stake in convertible preferred stock after the bailout. It didn’t take long from a historical perspective.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Lenders help their customers curb foreclosures
  
  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 . Bank of America Corp. To prevent potential problems, National City Corp. — headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio — is working with churches, social workers and the United Way to help troubled borrowers avoid foreclosure.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• 40 Is the New 30 for Lenders and Investors
  
  Wells Fargo, for example, just announced that it is joining the growing number of lenders, like Washington Mutual and Bank of America, that are offering 40-year fixed-rate loans. Tauting the lower monthly payments the new product offers will appeal to first-time buyers, consumers in high-cost markets, real estate investors and buyers on a fixed income, the companys press release also warns that equity will build up more slowly as a result of the lower payments and a lot more total interest will be paid over the extra 10 years. Well, as Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke decides on his next move -- will he or wont he ratchet up interest rates another 25 basis points next month as most economists are predicting -- mortgage lenders are also pondering their next moves.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• It Used to Be a Day Job
  
  But at the end of the day, is it something real estate investors need to concern themselves with when it comes to dealing with homeowners who are in the midst of financial crisis or the banks when buying an REO property? Please make a comment below and let’s get the conversation going. Posted 02-22-2008 10:35 AM by joelc Filed under: Foreclosure Trends , Real Estate Trends Comments
  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., The homeowners have to be more than 90 days behind on their mortgage payments, and call in once they get a letter from their lender asking them to reaffirm that they want to stay in their 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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• Another Approach to $700 Billion Bailout
  
  My wife and I struggle everyday to make all of our payments. We even have a little nest egg but why should we keep on when Uncle Sam will make your payments for you just because YOU made bad business decisions. Also loan money to troubled banks using mortgage as collateral; 10 cents to a dollar. It seems crazy Peter Miller, author of the Common-Sense Mortgage, has offered up some alternatives to the proposed $700 billion bailout plan. Below are excerpts from an article he wrote about these alternatives. "One alternative is to simply offer low-interest loans to borrowers
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• How Much for Those Lender Assets in the Window?
  
  In September Merrill was bought by the Bank of America for $29 a share . billion for the “deposits, assets and certain liabilities of Washington Mutuals banking operations.” One can see investors looking at delinquency and foreclosure rates, loan age and also geographic concentrations, down payment data, equity, income, credit ratings, sale terms and other factors. How Much for Those Lender Assets in the Window? By Peter G. Miller    Long ago there was a song which asked the magic question, how much for that doggie
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• High-End Foreclosures Rising Among Top Tier Homes
  
  But increasingly there are signs that the foreclosure problem is spilling over into wealthier areas, where prime borrowers — and even high-end real estate developers — are rapidly falling behind on their construction loans, mortgage payments, property taxes, auto loans and credit cards at an alarmingly fast pace, according to industry analysts, economists and real estate brokers . trolls the upper-end of the foreclosure train wreck, searching for million-dollar bank-owned listings. “The High-End Foreclosures Rising Among Top Tier Homes By Octavio Nuiry, RealtyTrac Staff Writer    Until now, the foreclosure crisis was confined to a narrow niche of middle-class urban communities and outer-rim new housing developments where first-time homeowners and real estate speculators benefited briefly from favorable financing.
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• As Home Prices Plummet, When Will You Buy?
  
  For example you see Bank of America adopting a massive, systematic loan modification program. We tried to do the right thing but are personally a bit peeved because we worked hard, paid our bills, and bit the bullet and sold in a downward market and now people who are in foreclosure or defaulting because they took out big loans they couldnt afford and pay for, who bought Hummers, boats, and luxury items with second mortgages are now to be forgiven with the banks; getting their balances lowered to market values and lower interest rates to fit into their budget. Home prices in 20 of the nation's major metro areas in July were collectively down 16.3
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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