foreclosure: Saving Your Home From Foreclosure - 06/17/08 04:37 PM
5-16 saving your home.
AR Members*
One
of the best primers I have seen regarding foreclosure is available from
the Consumer
Action Project, a service and counseling
organization
with offices in Los Angeles and San Francisco. I recently participated
in a Housing Preservation workshop with a representative of this group … (0 comments)
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foreclosure: IRS Q & A on Foreclosure - Excellent Resource - 06/17/08 03:56 PM
5-16 irs web help
One
place you may not think of that contains a wealth of information on
what Homeowners face when they lose their home is the IRS. Amazingly
enough, they have a great website full of helpful facts and links to
help you through the foreclosure process.
Simply … (0 comments)
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foreclosure: Attorney General Brown Shuts Down Mortgage Scam Artists - 03/19/08 07:40 PM
For a copy of the indictment and to read the lengthy release detailing the mechanics of this scam and interviews with victims, please follow the source link. This scam has been going on for some time now and involves THOUSANDS of victims in LA and San Bernardino county. The scam involved high pressure … (3 comments)
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foreclosure: Is The End In Sight? Some observations - probably all wrong. - 03/07/08 11:56 AM
Last week I had a chance to talk with noted economist Gary Watts. One thing that makes Gary unique is the fact that he is a real estate economist and he has a real estate background. Imagine that, an economist that actually knows something about our industry instead of just another … (14 comments)
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foreclosure: Just Walk Away, Rene', you'll buy a house another day. - 02/26/08 02:34 PM
This is my second post today inspired by a post I just read. Lenn Harley has a great post HOMEOWNERS, IF YOU CAN'T SELL, EITHER RENT OR STAY WHERE YOU ARE. You can't "just walk away". Lots of good advice and many great comments on responsibility and such.
I had a situation … (2 comments)
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foreclosure: Inland Empire - Mortgage Fraud Help. - 02/12/08 08:33 PM
I just saw this new group and wanted to reach and and tap the members. I'm sure many of you have been victimized or had clients preyed upon by mortgage fraud scams when our market was rolling. In Murrieta we had one outfit - Stonewood Financial - who pulled off over … (5 comments)
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foreclosure: Dr. Greenspanstein's Monster & Gambler Mae - 01/17/08 11:47 PM
Well, here's hoping you're safely through the holidays, and that Santa, in his munificence, deposited more than the richly deserved lumps of coal in your moth eaten stockings. With that cheery greeting, let's start the year with a slap in the yap from the housing market. I know I told you … (15 comments)
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foreclosure: Location, location, location - and TIMING. - 01/10/08 04:27 PM
We just finished a board retreat trying to plan around our changing real estate market in Southern California. In addition to trying to guide our Association, we are all Realtors and investors ourselves trying to get a handle on where the business is going, how to advise our clients and time our … (10 comments)
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foreclosure: Is That a Light at the end of this tunnel? - 01/03/08 03:45 PM
I just got back from our National Association of Realtors conference in Las Vegas. Over 30,000 Realtors from around the world gathered to discuss legislative issues, mortgage fraud, marketing, the election and the economy. There's enough going on in each of those categories to write a whole column but since I … (5 comments)
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foreclosure: Short Sale Tax Foregiveness Bill signed - 12/21/07 12:38 PM
President Bush signed into law today a new measure giving tax breaks to homeowners who have mortgage debt forgiven. Under preexisting law, the debt forgiven by a lender, such as for short sales and refinances, was generally taxable to the borrower as debt discharge income. With the passage of the Mortgage … (5 comments)
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foreclosure: Let the Fingerpointing Begin - Real Estate Fraud - 12/15/07 02:34 PM
When the market heads south, as it has done spectacularly in the recent past, people are always looking for whom to blame. As long as the fingers are pointed comfortably in other directions, they are justified in assigning guilt to most any party who has been involved in even the most … (6 comments)
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foreclosure: Observations on the Housing 'Crisis'. - 12/13/07 07:05 PM
In the past month or so, I've talked with economists from the California and National Association of Realtors, Dr. John Husing, the CEO's of Coldwell Banker, Prudential and Re/Max as well as a Deputy Director of the FED. They are all in agreement on the housing situation - they don't know … (30 comments)
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foreclosure: Greed, for lack of a better word. - 08/09/07 07:21 PM
Gordon Gekko, in the movie Wall Street, opines that "Greed captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit." If word coming out of the banking industry these days is any indication, we've been evolving like rabbits lately. At meeting after meeting around the country, bankers and mortgage lenders are gathering to determine … (0 comments)
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