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Don't Dump Investors
These efforts are to help American families who both want to and can, through a loan modification or re-financing, stay in their homes.” Its not the governments job to bail out speculators, or those who made the decision to buy a home they knew they could never afford.” Because investor properties lost to foreclosure will continue to flood the market, driving down all home values. Don’t Dump Investors By Peter G. Miller When it comes to bailing out giant banks, huge companies and massive stock brokerages theres
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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. The remaining mortgages — perhaps a million or more — will
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Long-Term Solution for Fannie and Freddie Dilemma
home mortgages. If Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac collapse the result would be the wholesale destruction of the national mortgage system; a virtual halt to home sales because few local mortgages would be available; soaring interest rates because few loans would be available and a level of losses throughout the economy unseen since the Great Depression. They are profit-seeking "companies" in the sense of shareholders and being in business but they are also GSEs -- government-sponsored enterprises, companies started by the federal government and companies endowed Long-Term Solution for Fannie and Freddie Dilemma By Peter G.
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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Getting Help to Stop Foreclosure, Avoid Home Foreclosure Process - RealtyTrac
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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Free foreclosure help and avoiding foreclosure information - RealtyTrac
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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How to Buy HUD Home Foreclosures - RealtyTrac
How Can I Buy HUD Home Foreclosures? Search Properties | Free 7-Day Trial Search nearly 650,000 Foreclosure and Government properties. More than 1 million total properties including For Sale by Owner, HUD Home Foreclosures, Resale, and Home Auctions! Almost anyone can qualify... Almost anyone can qualify to buy a home owned by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (a HUD home) so long as they
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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First-Time Buyers Get Help with CA Foreclosure Purchase
First-time homebuyers in California are getting help in purchasing their piece of the American Dream thanks to a public-private partnership and $200 million in bond funds allocated to the California Housing Finance Agency (CalFHA). Gov. Arnold Schwartzenegger announced Monday that CalFHA’s Community Stabilization Home Loan Program will dole out the money, expected to help as many as 1,000 Californians obtain their piece of homeownership. But there is a catch! The catch is buyers have to be willing to buy their dream home in one of the designated areas approved
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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As Home Prices Plummet, When Will You Buy?
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 S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index released today. quot; Las Vegas and Phoenix posted the two biggest annual declines in home prices of the 20 metro areas tracked in the report, followed by Miami with a 28.2 Prices in those metro areas were down 19.5 percent from their peak in July 2006. "There
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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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 to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel .
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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New Tax Law Spurs More Short Sales, Expert Says
For real estate investors looking for pre-foreclosure bargains, a new federal law could unleash a torrent of short sales as struggling borrowers facing foreclosure unload their over-mortgaged homes to avoid huge tax bills on capital gains. HR 3648 , or the Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act, signed by President George W. 20, helps people whose homes are in foreclosure by canceling taxes on any mortgage debt that has been forgiven by their lender. Bush on Dec. The government previously viewed the difference between the debt and the value of the home as taxable “income.”
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Avoid Foreclosure Before it Starts at RealtyTrac
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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40 Is the New 30 for Lenders and Investors
Tauting the lower monthly payments the new product offers will appeal to first-time buyers, consumers in high-cost markets, real estate investors and buyers on a fixed income, the companys press release also warns that equity will build up more slowly as a result of the lower payments and a lot more total interest will be paid over the extra 10 years. Still, this new loan may be a viable alternative to home buyers who may soon be finding themselves in trouble with the popular interest-only and option adjustable-rate mortgages -- especially if the Fed ups the interest rates more this year
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Credit Card and Mortgage Debt Fuels Foreclosure
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. Rising interest rates have caught many homeowners in a “can’t pay, can’t sell, can’t refinance” vise, in which their ARM payments are outpacing their incomes and their homes have not appreciated enough to help cover the cost of a refinanced mortgage or to allow them to sell and walk away. Debt! No word better describes why millions of Americans are now facing foreclosure.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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