5 Articles match "Foreclose","Income","Washington"

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• Screech from "Saved by the Bell" in Foreclosure
  
  The Associated Press is reporting that actor Dustin Diamond from televisions "Saved by the Bell" is selling T-shirts to help bail his home out of foreclosure. "Diamond, 29, is trying to sell nearly 30,000 shirts – at $15 or $20 (autographed) each – to supplement the income he makes as a standup comic so he doesn’t have to move from his Port Washington home, about 25 miles north of Milwaukee." This is different from your typical foreclosur e because it doesnt involve a lender foreclosing on a defaulted loan; it involves a landowner foreclosing on a land contract, according
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Wachovia Changes The Lending Game
  
  If that happens, the Wachovia plan may well be responsible for saving tens of thousands of families from foreclosure.” Washington On Capitol Hill, both the House and the Senate have passed measures that would allow the FHA to insure up to $300 billion in special mortgages for those facing foreclosure. This new prepayment policy, said Laurent Bossard, WMC’s chief executive officer, “provides borrowers with enhanced flexibility to avoid prepayment fees.” “Just as in the case with WMC, the Wachovia initiative will change the mortgage debate in Washington,” added RealtyTrac’s Saccacio.
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• Getting Help to Stop Foreclosure, Avoid Home Foreclosure Process - RealtyTrac
  
  Couples get divorced, people get sick, lose their jobs, OR, their income doesnt keep up with escalating mortgage payments caused by the resetting of interest rates to higher levels on those so-called "exotic" or "toxic" or "liar" loans (whatever you want to call them) of the past few years. Schumer (D-NY) chaired the Joint Economic Committee in Washington, DC, on the topic, "Sheltering Neighborhoods from the Subprime Foreclosure Storm." Check out our NEW Features! Login Why Join? FREE Trial Feedback Help
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• Another Approach to $700 Billion Bailout
  
  Below are excerpts from an article he wrote about these alternatives. "One alternative is to simply offer low-interest loans to borrowers who currently have toxic mortgages. "Figures developed by Rick Sharga, senior vice president at RealtyTrac, show that the likely cost of low interest loans would be roughly $220 billion — hardly cheap, but a lot less expensive than the $700 billion plan now being discussed in Washington. "Sharga's This is not a new idea other countries use longer terms to help lower income people afford a home. Peter Miller, author of the Common-Sense Mortgage, has offered up some alternatives to the proposed $700 billion bailout plan.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• As Home Prices Plummet, When Will You Buy?
  
  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. "I The sooner we get to the level that average renters income can afford a house mortgage, the earlier the economy will stabilize. Home prices in 20 of the nation's major metro areas in July were collectively down 16.3 percent from a year ago, according to the
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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