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FBI: Mortgage Fraud Begets Foreclosure
The FBI also lists Arizona, Colorado, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia as other areas significantly affected by mortgage fraud. The report identifies the most common scam as “illegal property flipping.” This is not what many legitimate investors refer to as flipping — buying a property at a discounted price, making repairs and then quickly reselling the property for a profit. 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.”
www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Foreclosure Crisis Sparks Surge in Arson
In Massachusetts , there’s a growing concern that foreclosure arson is becoming a problem around the state as more and more properties are abandoned. In Colorado , a homeowner was convicted for setting his home on fire to prevent the lender from repossessing the property. “We’ve People upside-down on their house with variable-interest-rate loans, or upside-down on their cars, are pretty quick to burn In desperate times people resort to desperate measures. Facing foreclosure, some homeowners are setting fire to their homes for the insurance money.
www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Foreclosure Activity Deflating or Just Deferred?
Meanwhile, REO (bank repossession) activity actually decreased on a YOY basis in January and February of 2007 but gradually started to gain momentum in the second half of 2007, and increases in REOs have far outpaced the increases in defaults and auctions in all six months of 2008. One could argue that this chart shows that the bulk of the properties that were at risk for foreclosure have migrated through the process and are now being repossessed by the foreclosing lenders. On the other hand, some might argue that many properties are still at risk for falling into foreclosure,
www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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  • Foreclosure Crisis Sparks Surge in Arson
    In Massachusetts , there’s a growing concern that foreclosure arson is becoming a problem around the state as more and more properties are abandoned. In Colorado , a homeowner was convicted for setting his home on fire to prevent the lender from repossessing the property. “We’ve People upside-down on their house with variable-interest-rate loans, or upside-down on their cars, are pretty quick to burn In desperate times people resort to desperate measures. Facing foreclosure, some homeowners are setting fire to their homes for the insurance money.
    www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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  • FBI: Mortgage Fraud Begets Foreclosure
    The FBI also lists Arizona, Colorado, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia as other areas significantly affected by mortgage fraud. The report identifies the most common scam as “illegal property flipping.” This is not what many legitimate investors refer to as flipping — buying a property at a discounted price, making repairs and then quickly reselling the property for a profit. 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.”
    www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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  • Foreclosure Activity Deflating or Just Deferred?
    Meanwhile, REO (bank repossession) activity actually decreased on a YOY basis in January and February of 2007 but gradually started to gain momentum in the second half of 2007, and increases in REOs have far outpaced the increases in defaults and auctions in all six months of 2008. One could argue that this chart shows that the bulk of the properties that were at risk for foreclosure have migrated through the process and are now being repossessed by the foreclosing lenders. On the other hand, some might argue that many properties are still at risk for falling into foreclosure,
    www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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  • Is Eight Enough?
    The number of properties with some sort of foreclosure action against them (default notice, auction notice, bank repossession) has consistently risen for the past eight quarters (see chart). One example is Colorado, whose foreclosure rate ranked No. The Colorado Division of Housing set up a foreclosure hotline to help people facing foreclosure. While there have been monthly fluctuations up and down during this time period, the quarterly numbers consistently have been up quarter over quarter, and the most recent quarter was no exception, according to the U.S. Foreclosure
    www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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