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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
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Credit Card and Mortgage Debt Fuels Foreclosure
  
  Last year, the average American receiving financial counseling earned $27,000 annually and had $38,500 of unsecured debt spread over eight credit cards, according the National Foundation for Credit Counseling, a nonprofit group representing 115 counseling organizations. The study showed that consumers carried debt loads that substantially exceeded their income and, as a result, bankruptcy — or foreclosure — were their only reasonable options. Debt! No word better describes why millions of Americans are now facing foreclosure.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• 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
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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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
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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