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Secrets of Pre-Foreclosure Investing
20 and will provide a temporary, three-year change to the tax code to eliminate any taxes homeowners might face when banks renegotiate the terms of a home loan and forgive a portion of the outstanding mortgage debt. Many times, says Randy Siems, a Missouri pre-foreclosure investor who made over $1 million in pre-foreclosure equity deals last year, the person answering the door isn’t aware that they are in foreclosure because their spouse hasn’t told them. “I once put together a deal where the wife didn’t tell the husband that they were in foreclosure,” said Siems, who engineered the deal
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
National Registration For Loan Officers Becomes Reality
Prior to the legislation 14 states participated in the voluntary Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System, but under the new rules all states and all loan officers will be part of a mandatory registration system to be established during the coming year. study by the Miami Herald found that just in Florida “from 2000 to 2007, regulators allowed at least 10,529 people with criminal records to work in the mortgage profession. National Registration For Loan Officers Becomes Reality By Peter G. Miller What do you know about your loan
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
High-End Foreclosures Rising Among Top Tier Homes
The rising trend of prime delinquencies among the wealthy poses a new threat to a battered housing market, which McCabe and others specialists claim is in a recession or heading towards one. “The next two years are going to be pretty ugly in South Florida,” predicted McCabe, saying that Florida real estate will drop by another 10 to 15 percent in 2009 and the market will flatten by 2010. As far as condos go, about one out of every six condominiums listed in Orange County last year were either a short sale or a foreclosure,” says Veronica Hicks, a real estate broker in
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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Florida Homeowners Overconfident Despite Foreclosures?
Results of a new study released last week by Attorneys Title Insurance Fund (The Fund) suggests that Florida homeowners are feeling pretty good nowadays about the value of their homes and the potential for those values to rise further in the future. Their least concern: falling victim to mortgage fraud -- even though the survey says that Florida is the top state in the nation for such fraud (something that is, unfortunately, always associated with real estate investors working in the foreclosure arena). Their biggest concern: being hit by a hurricane. Between those two extremes,
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Coastal Disasters = More Foreclosures?
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). It doesn’t matter if you’re living in Florida or California — coastal property is expensive and so are the insurance premiums that go with them. It also brings back bad memories of dealing with insurance companies and very slow claims service. Back in 1994 something called “The
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Foreclosure Filings Soar 90 Percent
foreclosure filings surged 90 percent in May from a year earlier as more homeowners fell behind on their monthly mortgage payments, reported RealtyTrac . There were 176,137 foreclosure filings in May, up 19 percent from April. Saccacio, chief executive officer of RealtyTrac, said a jump in foreclosures at a time of year that traditionally is the busiest for home sales means the slide in prices probably isn't A growing number of American homeowners across the country are getting foreclosure notices, according to new data released this week by RealtyTrac. U.S.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Burning Down the House
Foreclosures nationwide are heating up, especially in once-supercharged real estate bubbles like Florida, California, Nevada and Arizona. Last month, a Michigan homeowner in foreclosure was arrested for allegedly setting her three-year old Grand Rapids home on fire to collect the insurance money, according to the Grand Rapids Press . Sheryl Christman , a 38 year old housewife, torched her home just four days shy of losing it to For many real estate investors, the foreclosure market is smoking. But in Michigan, where foreclosures are widespread and a hot market for
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Betting Everything on the House: 3 Risky Loans to Avoid
Falling prices, sluggish sales and risky loans that let borrowers pile up debt faster than they can pay it off could put more homeowners out of their houses this year than at any other time this decade. Yet many homeowners — particularly in California, Florida and Colorado — are still purchasing or refinancing their mortgages with “exotic” loans that may keep their monthly payments low now, but when these gimmicky loans “reset” upward borrowers could lose their homes if they haven’t planned for an increased monthly mortgage payment. While these loans certainly can be used for good, too often consumers don’t fully understand the risks involved.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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I'll Take Sour Cream and Chives
Nowadays, I may have to add a side of presidential politics too! The five: California, Florida (the hanging chad capital of the western world), Michigan, Ohio and Georgia. Just an FYI: in the upcoming 2008 presidential election, California will have 55 electoral votes, Florida 27, Michigan 17, Ohio 20 and Georgia 15. No butter for me. Personally, I like my hot baked potato covered with sour cream and chives.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Bank-Repossession Beat Continues in March
foreclosure activity registered at more than 50 percent above the level it was at a year ago, according to the March RealtyTrac U.S. And for the second month in a row, the number of bank repossessions, or REOs, was up more than 100 percent year over year. The implication: while significantly more homeowners are falling into foreclosure, there is an even bigger increase in the number of homeowners already in the process who are losing their homes to foreclosure — whether through the typical foreclosure sale mechanism or whether by pre-empting the public foreclosure sale through what
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Fannie: Q1 a Swift Kick in the Rear
It may have been created and chartered by the federal government, but Fannie Mae (the Federal National Mortgage Association) is first and foremost a private company responsible to shareholders for running at a profit. billion loss reported for Q4 2007, it pales in comparison to the $961 million profit the GSE reported for the same quarter a year ago. As a result And as with many corporations in this country, the national economy is kicking Fannie around…fast and hard! One of the nation’s two Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSEs), Fannie reported a first quarter net loss of $2.2
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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High-End Foreclosures Rising Among Top Tier Homes
The rising trend of prime delinquencies among the wealthy poses a new threat to a battered housing market, which McCabe and others specialists claim is in a recession or heading towards one. “The next two years are going to be pretty ugly in South Florida,” predicted McCabe, saying that Florida real estate will drop by another 10 to 15 percent in 2009 and the market will flatten by 2010. As far as condos go, about one out of every six condominiums listed in Orange County last year were either a short sale or a foreclosure,” says Veronica Hicks, a real estate broker in
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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Bush Foreclosure Solution Just Adds Water
At present, under the Tax Code a homeowner who loses a home to foreclosure has to pay income taxes on any portion of the mortgage debt the lender may decide to forgive. The IRS currently considers such forgiven debt to be additional gross (and taxable) income for the year. This can directly affect the homeowners’ ability, or desire for that matter, to proceed with such things as short sales and other types It wasn’t very long ago that President George W. Bush came out with a public policy statement negating any possibility of either a homeowner, or a lender bailout, given the
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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