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• Will Main Street Sink Wall Street?
  
  While it is unlikely to bring down the savvy Wall Street firm, the firm may become a potential target for government regulators, class-action lawsuits and expose the investment bank to a hostile takeover. Fear and anxiety could trigger a massive sell-off, exposing other Wall Street financial institutions to the same excesses of America’s housing bubble on Main Street. Mounting mortgage defaults by American homeowners with shaky credit have claimed their first Wall Street casualty, as investment banking giant Bear Stearns shuffled the leadership of its asset-management division and lost billions in the risky hedge fund market last month.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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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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• Getting Help to Stop Foreclosure, Avoid Home Foreclosure Process - RealtyTrac
  
  And homeowners from California to Maine were left wishing they had a way to close the floodgates, stopping foreclosure of their homes immediately. Good news, there may be ways to stop foreclosure. House Finance Services Committee in Cuyahoga County (a region with one of the highest foreclosure rates in the nation) last August calling for the creation of partnerships between community organizations and state governments as a way Check out our NEW Features! Login Why Join? FREE Trial Feedback Help
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• Secrets of Pre-Foreclosure Investing
  
  McManus said the borrower got out of a painful situation, the bank got rid of a non-performing asset, and McManus bought a discounted house for pennies on the dollar. “Sometimes, Other times, we do lease-option deals, where the seller sells the house to you (the investor) and you lease it back to the seller.” Buying pre-foreclosures has two main advantages over buying at the auction or purchasing 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.
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• As Home Prices Plummet, When Will You Buy?
  
  quot;I think this time residential housing is in the 100-year flood, and I think it's going to take a long time to recover," said David Shulman, senior economist at the UCLA Anderson Forecast , at the Zelman & Associates Housing Summit in Dallas on Sept. Now, in 2009, or will you wait until 2020 when everyone has forgotten about this housing slump and is raving about skyrocketing home prices? Posted 09-30-2008 11:27 AM by darenb Filed under: Foreclosure Trends , Real Estate Trends
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Wachovia Changes The Lending Game
  
  If that happens, the Wachovia plan may well be responsible for saving tens of thousands of families from foreclosure.” Washington On Capitol Hill, both the House and the Senate have passed measures that would allow the FHA to insure up to $300 billion in special mortgages for those facing foreclosure. 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 a bad situation in another way: If it can get option ARMs refinanced it
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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