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• Michigan Goes Hollywood to Help Homeowners
  
  In June 2008 — the most recent monthly ranking available from RealtyTrac — the Great Lakes State ranked fifth nationally, reporting 12,025 properties with foreclosure filings, accounting for 5 percent of the nation’s total foreclosure filings for the month. rdquo; Everything from affordable housing and refinancing a mortgage, to avoiding foreclosures and where to go for help with homelessness and domestic violence will be topics open for discussion on the program. Lights! Camera!
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Ohio Lawmaker Seeks Solution to Foreclosure Level
  
  And for subscribers to RealtyTrac — albeit investors, real estate agents or potential homebuyers — Ohio is a land of opportunity right now. The state went from the seventh highest total of foreclosures in the nation in April to the fourth highest total in June. At the local level Cuyahoga County went from the county with the highest foreclosure rate in the state — one foreclosure filing for every 453 households in May It looks like foreclosures are starting to become a national call to action for some Washington bureaucrats. One example — Rep.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Legislating Lower Foreclosure Rates?
  
  An Illinois law intended to help reduce foreclosures is drawing cries of discrimination from some of the people it is trying to protect, according to the Chicago Defender newspaper. “Nearly 60 days after Illinois House Bill 4050 went into effect to supposedly protect consumers from predatory lenders, a coalition of Black and Latino city residents say the new law is actually destroying property values in select minority communities.” The law is a pilot program that is being applied in 10 Chicago zip codes chosen for their high foreclosure rates, among other factors. One such law is
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Can "Appreciation Sharing" Solve The Mortgage Mess?
  
  The just-passed Housing and Economic Recovery Act includes provisions that will help some 400,000 families replace toxic loans with FHA financing. The Black Lung Benefits Revenue Act of 1981 created a new way to own and invest in real estate: Equity sharing. If investors are interested in mortgages at all, they’re willing to buy securities backed by prime loans and little else. “You can understand the investor’s perspective, Can “Appreciation Sharing” Solve The Mortgage Mess? By Peter G. Miller     We’re about to see something
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• As Home Prices Plummet, When Will You Buy?
  
  Does this make it a good time to buy real estate? June Fletcher of The Wall Street Journal sagely advises that the answer is "For some people, yes. 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 Home prices in 20 of the nation's major metro areas in July were collectively down 16.3
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• July Foreclosure Report
  
  Many more are losing their homes.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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