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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
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Glossary of Foreclosure and Real Estate Terminology - Realtytrac
  
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  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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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
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Foreclosure Financing and Foreclosure Refinancing - RealtyTrac
  
  Reinstatement will stop the foreclosing lender from foreclosing on the distressed borrower. Depending on the price range of the foreclosure properties an investor plans to buy, he or she will need startup capital to pay the loan reinstatement costs, rehab costs, closing costs, carrying costs, sales marketing costs and other expenses associated with buying and carrying foreclosure real estate. Foreclosure Lenders Foreclosure lenders come in myriad shapes and forms. Foreclosure Financing: How to Buy Foreclosure Real Estate Search Properties | Free 7-Day Trial Search nearly 650,000 Foreclosure and Bank-Owned properties.
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• As Foreclosures Mount, Candidates React to the Credit Crisis
  
  Here’s what the major presidential candidates have to say about the growing foreclosure epidemic: Democrats The three main Democratic presidential candidates — Clinton, Obama and Edwards —have made various proposals for modest reform, including setting up a federal fund to help homeowners fend off foreclosure and providing borrowers with counseling, along with laws to ban predatory lending policies. Hillary Rodham Clinton wants to put an end to prepayment penalties for home mortgages and to set up a $2 billion federal fund to help homeowners avoid foreclosure. 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.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Can "Appreciation Sharing" Solve The Mortgage Mess?
  
  The just-passed Housing and Economic Recovery Act includes provisions that will help some 400,000 families replace toxic loans with FHA financing. Usually you would look at the fees and charges associated with the HOPE program and think, well, yuck. If we tighten mortgage standards so that only those with great credit can buy homes we won’t have enough purchasers to clear the inventory of foreclosed properties now on-hand or Can “Appreciation Sharing” Solve The Mortgage Mess? By Peter G. Miller     We’re about to see something
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• The Government Goes After Loan Officers
  
  For example, the SEC could limit its investigation to mortgages that were foreclosed within the first 12 to 18 months after origination. In August 2006, Steven Krystofiak, President of the Mortgage Brokers Association for Responsible Lending , testified before the Federal Reserve and said his group compared the income figures for 100 stated-income loans against borrower tax returns. Ninety percent of the stated-income loan applications showed earnings that were exaggerated by at least 5 percent. Sixty percent of the stated amounts were exaggerated by more than 50 percent. “Stated
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• As Home Prices Plummet, When Will You Buy?
  
  quot;I think this time residential housing is in the 100-year flood, and I think it's going to take a long time to recover," said David Shulman, senior economist at the UCLA Anderson Forecast , at the Zelman & Associates Housing Summit in Dallas on Sept. And that intervention could just be damming up another coming flood of foreclosures or it could actually be having a lasting impact and helping folks stay in their homes for the long term. Home prices in 20 of the nation's major metro areas in July were collectively down 16.3 percent from a year ago, according
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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