Connecticut lawmakers are considering extending help to more homeowners facing possible foreclosure as the problem broadens across the state.
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Fewer Coloradans lost their homes to foreclosure last year, raising hopes that the state’s housing market may have bottomed.
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This would directly help all mortgage-holders avoid foreclosure. It would also help all homeowners by stabilizing housing prices. My plan covers all mortgages, including those of California mortgage holders who hold loans above 125 percent of local …
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Troubled homeowners may one day soon be able to drop into a “walk-in clinic” for free advice on averting foreclosure or seeing if their mortgage terms were reasonable.
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Debbie Gibson’s rep says her home isn’t going into foreclosure, despite weekend reports. “Much to the chagrin of media everywhere, Deborah is simply moving in with her boyfriend of the last year [doctor/documentarian Rutledge Taylor],” her rep David Salidor tells Usmagazine.com. See ’90s stars: then and now! “As we all know, [this] is the right […]
Arrest Made in Home Foreclosure Civil Disobedience Program
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By Joshua Rhett Miller Police in Baltimore today made what is believed to be the first arrest in a civil disobedience program aimed at supporting homeowners who refuse to vacate their foreclosed homes. An activist with ACORN — the Association of …
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A new kind of tourist package is being offered in China. Call it the “U.S. Real Estate Bottom-Fishing Tour.” The first of 40 Chinese real estate shoppers are looking in the U.S. this week to buy for foreclosure properties and other housing bargains.
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Foreclosure help needed
Baltimore Sun, United States
While Maryland and other states continue to struggle with the effects of a rising tide of mortgage foreclosures, President Barack Obama has come up with a new $75 billion plan that could help keep as many as 9 million deserving families in their homes. …
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Michigan, already home to the nation’s sixth-highest foreclosure rate, is facing an even bleaker picture in the year ahead.
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Housing secretary defends Obama foreclosure plan
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President Barack Obama announced the plan Wednesday, saying it will help up to 9 million people keep their homes in a housing market ravaged by foreclosures. But critics, including several leading Republicans and some commentators, said the $75 billion …
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