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• Avoid Foreclosure Before it Starts at RealtyTrac
  
  Million Foreclosures
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• 8 Ways to Dodge Delinquency and Stopping Foreclosure - RealtyTrac
  
  Consult with a real estate attorney or an experienced real estate broker because reinstatement laws vary from state to state. Option #3: Forbearance One of the most overlooked foreclosure options a borrower has is forbearance. For example, delinquent mortgage payments may be added to the backend of the borrower’s scheduled payments or the borrower could be given more time to bring the late payment current. Check out our NEW Features! Login Why Join? FREE Trial Feedback Help
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• Wachovia Changes The Lending Game
  
  Additionally, for all new loan originations, Wachovia is discontinuing offering products that include payment options resulting in negative amortization.” “This is one of the most-enlightened decisions by a major lender in the past 18 months,” says James J. In effect, waiving prepayment penalties that may not be collected is far better than losing homes to foreclosures and short sales. Negative Amortization Wachovia is also trying to make the best of a bad situation in another way: If it can get option ARMs refinanced it may be able to capture some of the “negative amortization”
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• Fighting Foreclosure: Seven Ways to Dodge Delinquency
  
  Consult with a real estate attorney or an experienced real estate broker because reinstatement laws vary from state to state. For example, delinquent mortgage payments may be added to the loan balance or the borrower could be given more time to bring the late payment current. You won’t save the house, but you do avoid the trauma of foreclosure and reduce the negative impact on your credit. The sharp rise in foreclosure activity in recent months does not paint a pretty picture for distressed borrowers: 437,000 foreclosure filings were reported in the first quarter of this year, according to RealtyTrac .
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• The Government Goes After Loan Officers
  
  Most investors who bought these securities,” says the SEC, “lacked the cash or income to do so, but were urged by their brokers to raise the money to pay for the purchases and the monthly payments required for these products by refinancing their fixed-rate mortgages into subprime adjustable-rate negative amortization mortgages.” According to the SECs complaint “each defendant was a mortgage broker as well as a registered representative and collected compensation from the mortgage refinancings as well as the sales of securities. That said, whats plain is that the SEC has opened a new front
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• OTS Director Offers Alternative Plan to Congress
  
  Reich pointed to the FHASecure program as an example, where 116,000 loans have closed since the program was launched in September 2007, but only 1,500 of them were made to refinance delinquent conventional loans. The intent of their plan, the OTS says, is to “provide a negative equity position to the original loan holders in an amount equal to what they are giving up by taking the partial pay-off or short sale from the proceeds of the new FHA-guaranteed loan.” In a statement delivered before the Committee on Financial Services of the U.S. House of Representatives earlier this week,
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Is Eight Enough?
  
  One example is Colorado, whose foreclosure rate ranked No. The bill also earmarks $4 billion in grants for local communities to buy up foreclosed properties that may be negatively affecting the communities. View Q2 state data. View Q2 MSA data. Posted 07-25-2008 2:00 AM by darenb Filed under: Pre-Foreclosures , Foreclosure Auctions , Bank-Owned/REOs , Foreclosure Trends , Real Estate Trends 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).
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• As Home Prices Plummet, When Will You Buy?
  
  and -29.3%, respectively, and all 20 cities are still in negative territory on a year-over-year basis." Does this make it a good time to buy real estate? have access to credit have fat cash reserves aren't already over-exposed in real estate have a secure job or income stream expect to hold the property for at least two years" But be forewarned, prices are expected to fall further, and will take awhile to rebound, according to many economists. 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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