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Fed's Latest Moves No Real Surprise
Financial analysts who were hoping for some downward movement on interest rates yesterday by the Federal Reserve were disappointed as Ben Bernanke and his merry band unanimously voted to do nothing. Following what is now a familiar and conservative wait-and-see strategy towards the nation’s economy, and reactionary as usual, Bernanke and the Federal Open Market Committee left their short-term federal funds rate at 2 percent. Later in the day the Fed made what had to be a highly anticipated move by the nation’s financial gurus, deciding to bailout AIG at the 11th hour before the world’s largest insurance company went bankrupt.
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Separating the wheat from the chaff: legitimate foreclosure investors vs. scammers
An article in the Los Angeles Times onTuesday documented the sad story of a defaulted homeowner who was thevictim of alleged foreclosure fraud. The scammers dontcreate the foreclosure rates, but they swoop in at the time thatsomeone is in distress," said Elizabeth Renuart, a staff attorney withthe National Consumer Law Center in Boston and the author of "DreamsForeclosed: The Rampant Theft of Americans Homes ThroughEquity-Stripping Foreclosure Rescue Scams." The homeowner said he was trickedinto signing over the title of his home by a scam artist who didnothing to stop the foreclosure and then took out another loan againstthe property with no intention of paying it off.
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Coastal Disasters = More Foreclosures?
It also brings back bad memories of dealing with insurance companies and very slow claims service. Back in 1994 something called “The Northridge Earthquake” (misnamed as it was) shook Los Angeles at 4:31 a.m. Many insurance companies that WERE writing homeowner’s insurance policies pulled out of California altogether after that one. 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).
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Separating the wheat from the chaff: legitimate foreclosure investors vs. scammers
An article in the Los Angeles Times onTuesday documented the sad story of a defaulted homeowner who was thevictim of alleged foreclosure fraud. The scammers dontcreate the foreclosure rates, but they swoop in at the time thatsomeone is in distress," said Elizabeth Renuart, a staff attorney withthe National Consumer Law Center in Boston and the author of "DreamsForeclosed: The Rampant Theft of Americans Homes ThroughEquity-Stripping Foreclosure Rescue Scams." The homeowner said he was trickedinto signing over the title of his home by a scam artist who didnothing to stop the foreclosure and then took out another loan againstthe property with no intention of paying it off.
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Foreclosure Crisis Sparks Surge in Arson
We’ve seen a dramatic increase in this kind of fraud,” Dan Bales, the head of fraud investigations at Mercury Insurance, told the Los Angeles Times . “People People upside-down on their house with variable-interest-rate loans, or upside-down on their cars, are pretty quick to burn their property right now.” Neighbors are getting burned too, when higher premiums are passed on to them by insurance 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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Fed's Latest Moves No Real Surprise
Financial analysts who were hoping for some downward movement on interest rates yesterday by the Federal Reserve were disappointed as Ben Bernanke and his merry band unanimously voted to do nothing. Following what is now a familiar and conservative wait-and-see strategy towards the nation’s economy, and reactionary as usual, Bernanke and the Federal Open Market Committee left their short-term federal funds rate at 2 percent. Later in the day the Fed made what had to be a highly anticipated move by the nation’s financial gurus, deciding to bailout AIG at the 11th hour before the world’s largest insurance company went bankrupt.
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Coastal Disasters = More Foreclosures?
It also brings back bad memories of dealing with insurance companies and very slow claims service. Back in 1994 something called “The Northridge Earthquake” (misnamed as it was) shook Los Angeles at 4:31 a.m. Many insurance companies that WERE writing homeowner’s insurance policies pulled out of California altogether after that one. 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).
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Economic Indicators: Image Is Everything
2) On Tuesday, the Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller home price index reported the worst decline in home prices since the company started tracking data back in 1987. the city with the nation’s highest foreclosure rate in February, according to RealtyTrac. The company’s 20-city composite index also declined in January from a year earlier, down almost 11 percent. When it comes to purchasing real estate — either as a primary residence or as an investment — perception is everything. When reports of telltale economic indicators are released, if Wall Street perceives them as bad,
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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