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Are Tax Credits For First-Time Buyers Too Costly
After a number of fumbles and failures, it seems that government has finally found a way increase home sales. The trick? A little tax incentive briber
RealtyTrac Article Library - Monday, October 12, 2009
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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 no shortage
www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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The Government Goes After Loan Officers
The result is that fees and commissions earned during the past few years have been virtually untouched, even as substantial numbers of lenders, investors and borrowers have failed. 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
www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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