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• Getting Help to Stop Foreclosure, Avoid Home Foreclosure Process - RealtyTrac
  
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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
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Avoid and Stop Foreclosure - Help at RealtyTrac
  
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• U.S. Foreclosure Laws
  
  Knowing the process in your state will help you adopt a more effective investing strategy and avoid procedural pitfalls. State Foreclosure Laws Quickly locate and review the foreclosure law specific to your state � or any state you�re considering investing in. Select A State Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut
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• Foreclosures and Hurricanes: A Nasty Combo
  
  residents from Texas to Maine. The Institute of Business and Housing Safety is reporting that the increasing number of abandoned or vacant foreclosed homes is so great as to generate real concern for the oncoming hurricane season this year. The potential for damage to other homes and personal property, along with the hazardous danger of bodily harm involved, may give support to the idea being promoted in many cities, counties and states around the country to hold lenders liable for maintaining the foreclosed properties in their REO inventory The fallout that followed in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 left many Gulf Coast residents homeless or facing foreclosure — or both.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Subprime meltdown means jump in foreclosures
  
  subprime mortgage market after the bankruptcy of at least 20 lenders in the last two months, triggering a mass liquidation of securities on Wall Street and an avalanche of foreclosure activity on Main Street. As more lenders go bankrupt and more Americans default on home loans, a jump in foreclosures is expected. reported big losses from loan defaults due to sagging Panic is spreading in the U.S. Growing trouble in the subprime mortgage industry could not come at a worse time for the battered housing sector, which has been in a yearlong tailspin of stagnant sales, rising inventories,
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Fannie Mae Toughens Foreclosure Guidelines
  
  As one of the two main Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSEs) in this country — the other is Freddie Mac — Fannie announced new guidelines that will effect the loans it buys from lenders all over the country, securitizes and then sells to Wall Street investors. And one of the most dramatic changes that will relieve some the tension in those big shoulders has to do with former homeowners who lost their homes to foreclosure. It was bound to happen. With government officials at the local, state and federal levels clamoring to clamp down on the nation’s financial institutions and
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Secrets of Pre-Foreclosure Investing
  
  Most people in foreclosure today have zero equity in their homes,” said Thomas J. Lucier, a Tampa Bay real estate investor and author of The Pre-Foreclosure Property Investor’s Kit . “That’s 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. Secrets of Pre-Foreclosure Investing By Octavio Nuiry, RealtyTrac Staff Writer    One pre-foreclosure expert says a new federal law will change everything, and short sales and short payoff sales will become the new trend in the marketplace.
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• Wachovia Changes The Lending Game
  
  More significantly — and unlike Wachovia’s competitors — it’s making it easier for borrowers to dump option-ARMs by waiving the prepayment penalties routinely associated with such loans. “Effectively immediately,” says the company, “Wachovia is waiving all prepayment fees associated with its Pick-A-Pay mortgage to allow customers complete flexibility in their home financing decisions. In effect, waiving prepayment penalties that may not be collected is far better than losing homes to foreclosures and short sales. Negative Amortization Wachovia is also trying to make the best of
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