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Goldman Sachs Seizing Homes Subprime Mortgages Bought

McClatchy | Greg Gordon | Posted 11.02.2009 | Business

Read More: Mtglq, Cases, Hank Paulson, Lawsuits, Middle Class, Suits, Goldman Sachs Subsidiaries, Housing Crisis, Working Class, Goldman Sachs, Judge Roger Efremsky, Lenders, Home Prices, Foreclosure, Subprime, Repossession, Roger Efremsky, Ge, Mortgage Brokers, Mortgage Crisis, Homeowners, Securities Exchange Commission, WMC Mortgage Corp, Judge William Aslup, Wall Street, GE Money, Wiliam Aslup, Henry Paulson, Banks, Sec, Subsidiaries, Business News

Goldman spent years buying hundreds of thousands of subprime mortgages, many of them from some of the more unsavory lenders in the business, and packa...

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Shahien Nasiripour

For The "Lucky Few" Who Renegotiate Their Mortgages, Towering Debt Remains

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 10.22.2009 | Business

Read More: Subprime Mortgages, Loan Modifications, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Mortgage Crisis, Home Affordable Modification, Financial Crisis, Homeowners, Congressional Oversight Panel, Business News

A Huffington Post analysis of recent mortgage-modification data shows that even those relatively few homeowners fortunate enough to renegotiate their ...

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Chinese Drywall: Insurers Dropping Coverage For Thousands Of Homeowners

Wall Street Journal | M.P. McQueen | Posted 10.14.2009 | Business

Read More: Homeowner-Insurance, Universal Group Inc, Insurance, Universal North America, Chinese Drywall, Homeowners, Drywall, Insurance Companies, Consumer Product Safety Commission, Business News

At least two home insurers in Florida have begun dropping policyholders who filed claims for property damage linked to drywall imported from China. D...

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Bank of America Trailing Behind Other Banks In Mortgage Relief

Washington Post | Renae Merle | Posted 10.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Geithner, Baillout, Mha, Bank of America, Homeowners, Foreclosure Prevention, Making Home Affordable, Mortgage Crisis, Foreclosure Rates, Loan Modifications, Mortgage, Countrywide, Lenders, Finance, Default, Making Home Affordable Program, Mortgage Relief, Treasury, Banks, Foreclosure, Timothy Geithner, Housing Crisis, Business News

Bank of America employees are reminded every day of how far they still have to go. Just outside the elevators of their vast third-floor command center...

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Shahien Nasiripour

Mortgage Loan Modification: More Offers Extended, Fewer Homeowners Accepting -- Are Homeowners Losing Hope?

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 10.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Mortgages, Treasury Department, Loan Modifications, Mortgage Modification, Making Home Affordable, Mortgage Servicers, Behavioral Economics, Home Affordable Modification, Mortgage Crisis, Financial Crisis, Obama Administration, Homeowners, Business News

While the Obama administration and reporters trumpet the fact that the administration is about a month early in reaching its stated goal of modifying ...

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Targeting the Scattershot Home Buying Tax Credit

David M. Abromowitz | Posted 10.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Home Buyers, Homeowners, Foreclosure, First-Time Homebuyers Credit, Tax Credit, Home Sales, Business News
David M. Abromowitz

Four out of five buyers were handed $8,000 by other taxpayers for a purchase they would have made anyway. The Obama administration could do better by targeting the credit to people who need it.

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Government Pays Mortgage Servicers Billions, While Homeowners Suffer

McClatchy Newspapers | Chris Adams | Posted 10.04.2009 | Business

Read More: Treasury Department, Foreclosure Rates, Foreclosure Crisis, Banks, Bank of America, Recession, Mortgage Servicers, Lenders, Saxon Mortgage, Home Affordable Modification Program, CitiFinancial, Mortgage Modification, Unemployment, Foreclosure, HAMP, Gao, Treasury, Citi, Homeowners, Tarp, Economy, Government Accountability Office, Business News

WASHINGTON -- The federal government is engaged in a massive mortgage modification program that's on track to send billions in tax dollars to many of ...

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Rubble, Rubble

Lita Smith-Mines | Posted 10.01.2009 | Living

Read More: Homeless, Foreclosures, Homeowners, Business, Housing, Housing Crisis, Home Foreclosures, Living News
Lita Smith-Mines

My trash themed take-away at the end of my car trip? Not all that litters is old, nor is all garbage created equal.

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Shahien Nasiripour

Minorities More Likely To Be Denied Refinancing

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 10.02.2009 | Business

Read More: Financial Crisis, Mortgages, Homeowners, Race, Hmda, Homeownership, Business News

First, minorities were disproportionately steered by lenders into subprime loans. Now there's news that they're disproportionately being denied when t...

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Nightmare On Elm and Maple Streets

Lita Smith-Mines | Posted 09.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Attorneys, Stress, Tax Credits, First-Time-Buyer, Homeowners, Real Estate, Housing Crisis, Short Sales, Home Foreclosures, Business News
Lita Smith-Mines

Since Labor Day passed, I have felt less like a real estate lawyer and more like a character actor in an awful horror movie.

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Who Owns Your Mortgage? "Produce The Note" Movement Helps Stall Foreclosures

Posted 09.24.2009 | Business

Read More: Securitization, Mortgages, Show Me the Note, Produce the Note, Judges, Marcy Kaptur, Mortgage Crisis, Financial Crisis, Foreclosure, Homeowners, Mortgage Note, Brad Miller, Business News

Modern-day home mortgages have been so sliced and diced by rapacious financiers that some homeowners are successfully delaying -- or even blocking -- ...

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What Do You Know? It's National Singles Week

Bella DePaulo | Posted 09.22.2009 | Living

Read More: Divorce, Relationships, Single Grandparents, Stephen Colbert, Travel, Homeowners, Cultural Lag, Widow, Myths, Singles Blog Crawl, Happiness, Quiz, Social Support, Jon Stewart, Single Parents, Health, Sex, Living Alone, National Singles Week, NY Times, Census Bureau, Single With Attitude, Living News
Bella DePaulo

Our perceptions of single people and their place in society have not caught up with the realities. How well do you know your single people? Take this quiz.

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Even the Losers Get Lucky Sometimes

Lita Smith-Mines | Posted 09.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Attorneys, Stress, Foreclosure Crisis, Therapy, Housing Prices, Housing Market, Homeless, Mortgage Crisis, Homeowners, Real Estate, Housing Slump, Home Foreclosures, Living News
Lita Smith-Mines

A former client sadly related that her home is "worth less than $600,000 and we owe close to $800,000. I can't sleep. I can't eat. I can't believe what I've lost."

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Shahien Nasiripour

Unable To Sell Their Houses, Millions Of Homeowners Are Turning Into Landlords

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 11.14.2009 | Business

Read More: Becoming Landlords, Renting Their Homes, Housing Crisis, Homeowners, Renters, Business News

Buying a new house last December was an easy decision for Brad and Melanie Juarros. They had been eyeing foreclosed properties for months in their Sa...

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Homeowners: The War Games Have Begun

Iris Martin | Posted 11.11.2009 | Business

Read More: Predatory Lending Lawsuits, Court, Debt, Judges, Bobby Flay, War, Mortgage Crisis, Homeowners, Barack Obama, Obama Administration, Mortgage Audit, Securitization, Subprime Mortgages, Loan Modifications, Predatory Lending, Federal Government, Banks, Foreclosure, Iattorneys, Mortgage Wars, Business News
Iris Martin

Now it's time for the predatory lenders, brokers and foreclosure consultants to sweat. Here is the skinny on what to do and not do in your own mortgage war.

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Ryan Grim

Cramdown Is Back: Banks Against Homeowners, Round 2

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Barney Frank, Dick Durbin, Bankruptcy Reform, Banks, Harry Reid, Henry Paulson, Homeowners, Cramdown, Politics News

Cramdown is back. House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) tells the Huffington Post he plans to revive the effort to give...

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HuffPost Readers: Are You A Homeowner Turned Landlord?

Huffington Post | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 10.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Housing Market, Homeowners, Renters, Recession, Housing Crisis, Housing Slump, Income, Landlords, Business News

The Huffington Post is examining the fallout from the housing bust, and we're looking for homeowners who have become landlords. Are you trying to su...

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California Residents Return To Survey Fire Damage

AP | GREG RISLING and RAQUEL MARIA DILLON | Posted 10.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Natural Disasters, Humidifity, California, Jennifer Sanchez, Wildfires, Homeowners, Weather, Forest Service, Extreme Weather, Green News

LOS ANGELES — Investigators launched a homicide investigation Thursday into the wildfire north of Los Angeles after determining that the giganti...

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Reluctant Landlords: More Homeowners Renting Out Their Homes

The Wall Street Journal | M.P. MCQUEEN | Posted 10.18.2009 | Business

Read More: Housing Trends, Real-Estate, Renting, Foreclosure, Mortgages, Tenants, Landlords, Homeowners, Apartment Vacancy Rates, Housing Prices, Housing Crisis, Rental Homes, Business News

Hard data are scant on how many homeowners are renting out their homes, but anecdotal evidence suggests numbers are up. In one indication of the trend...

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Housing: No Mood for a Recovery

Michael J. Panzner | Posted 09.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Homeowners, Real Estate, Consumer Spending, Housing Crisis, Economy, Homeownership, Housing Bubble, Business News
Michael J. Panzner

Suddenly, fewer Americans feel compelled to keep up with the Joneses or to follow in the footsteps of those before them.

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A New Paradigm for Homeownership: Honor the Renter

Jim Randel | Posted 09.07.2009 | Business

Read More: Investing, Housing Market, Homeowners, Subprime Mortage Crisis, Housing Crisis, Business News
Jim Randel

Home ownership has been oversold to the point where renters may feel like second-class citizens. Or, stupid not to buy. Well today many renters are having the last laugh.

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Six Lessons I Learned From My First Year of Marriage

Jeana Lee Tahnk | Posted 08.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Healthy Relationships, Marriage-Problems, Marriage, Homeowners, Dating Advice, Relationship Advice, Living News
Jeana Lee Tahnk

We had experienced matrimonial bliss before the matrimony but it wasn't until we purchased our first house that the real roles and responsibilities of 'husband' and 'wife' took effect.

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The #1 Lesson of the Housing Crisis

Jim Randel | Posted 07.30.2009 | Home

Read More: Investing, Housing Market, Bankruptcy, Economy, Homeowners, Foreclosure, Foreclosure News, Housing Crisis, Foreclosure-News, Home News
Jim Randel

Do not rely on the government to protect you. Do not rely on the good faith of your friendly real estate agent or mortgage broker. Educate Yourself.

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Millions Of Homeowners Don't Qualify For Obama's Mortgage Assistance Program

New York Times | PETER S. GOODMAN | Posted 07.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mortgage Assistance Program, Mortgage Modificiations, Homeowners, Mortgage Assistance, Politics News

MESA, Ariz. - She had seen the advertisements for the new government program offering relief. She had heard President Obama promise that help was on t...

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HUD Program Encouraging People To Buy Homes They Can't Afford

Washington Independant | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Hud, Shawn Donovan, Mortgage Market, Foreclosure, Homeowners, Housing and Urban Development, Politics News

When U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan announced last week that first-time homebuyers soon will be permitted to turn their $8...

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