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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. Top 10 Foreclosure Total Ranked by the number of foreclosure filings, California topped the list, with 39,659 in May, and Florida was number two, with 21,704, according to RealtyTrac’s report. A growing number of American homeowners across the country are getting foreclosure notices, according to new data released this week by RealtyTrac.
www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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FBI: Mortgage Fraud Begets Foreclosure
The correlation is apparent in the report’s list of the top states for mortgage fraud: California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Texas, and Utah. In extreme instances, perpetrators may sell the home or secure a second loan without the homeowners’ knowledge, stripping the property’s equity for personal enrichment.” More states are enacting legislation to protect homeowners against such fraud, and justifiably so. The FBI recently came out with its 2006 Mortgage Fraud Report , which somewhat anticlimactically concludes that there is “a strong correlation between mortgage fraud and loans which result in default or foreclosure.”
www.foreclosurepulse.com - 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! RealtyTrac’s latest numbers released this morning show that the top five states with the highest number of foreclosure filings in July accounted for 55 percent of all foreclosure filings in the country. (see The five: California, Florida (the hanging chad capital of the western world), Michigan, Ohio and Georgia. No butter for me. Personally, I like my hot baked potato covered with sour cream and chives.
www.foreclosurepulse.com - 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. Top 10 Foreclosure Total Ranked by the number of foreclosure filings, California topped the list, with 39,659 in May, and Florida was number two, with 21,704, according to RealtyTrac’s report. A growing number of American homeowners across the country are getting foreclosure notices, according to new data released this week by RealtyTrac.
    www.foreclosurepulse.com - 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! RealtyTrac’s latest numbers released this morning show that the top five states with the highest number of foreclosure filings in July accounted for 55 percent of all foreclosure filings in the country. (see The five: California, Florida (the hanging chad capital of the western world), Michigan, Ohio and Georgia. No butter for me. Personally, I like my hot baked potato covered with sour cream and chives.
    www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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  • FBI: Mortgage Fraud Begets Foreclosure
    The correlation is apparent in the report’s list of the top states for mortgage fraud: California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Texas, and Utah. In extreme instances, perpetrators may sell the home or secure a second loan without the homeowners’ knowledge, stripping the property’s equity for personal enrichment.” More states are enacting legislation to protect homeowners against such fraud, and justifiably so. The FBI recently came out with its 2006 Mortgage Fraud Report , which somewhat anticlimactically concludes that there is “a strong correlation between mortgage fraud and loans which result in default or foreclosure.”
    www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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  • BK' Doesn't Stand for Burger King
    Gerdano, who expects consumer bankruptcies for 2008 to top 1 million, according to a Reuters report. Of ABI’s top 10 states with the highest per capita filing rate for 2007, four of them — Georgia, Michigan, Ohio and Nevada — were also some of RealtyTrac’s top 10 foreclosure states for much of the year. In the end, more bankruptcy filings may translate into more short sales down the road, or possibly more people simply walking away from their homes — The only kind of whopper a person with this kind of ‘BK’ is going to get is a whopper of a headache. In
    www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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