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Helping owners keep their homes (The Charlotte Observer)
If you're facing foreclosure, you have options. And the first step is to talk with someone. That was the message at a homeownership fair in Charlotte on Saturday. "More than 50 percent of people who lose their homes to foreclosure never call their lender," Charles Gardner, director of the Atlanta homeownership center of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, told an audience at ...
2008-03-30 04:31:14 -
Lessons from US disaster (The Courier Mail)
THE US is going into recession because of a credit bubble due to the tech wreck. Mortgage brokers lent money to people who couldn't afford it.
2008-03-30 07:00:00 -
New car loans stretch to greater lengths (The Christian Science Monitor)
More buyers finance for six, even seven years - a risky move given how quickly some cars depreciate.
2008-03-30 10:59:42 -
Financial Q&A: Paying to launch children, and still saving for retirement (The Christian Science Monitor)
If you have questions about finances, e-mail us at: work@csmonitor.com
2008-03-30 10:59:59 -
Struggling homeowners negotiate with lenders (WFMJ Youngstown)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Hundreds of struggling homeowners showed up in Columbus today to meet with lenders and state office holders to talk about the foreclosure crisis.
2008-03-30 01:49:46 -
New legal arsenal to battle bad loans (Staten Island Advance)
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The financial stress brought on by the mortgage Lynne Libert took in 2005 eventually broke up her 14-year relationship with her companion and forced her daughter to drop out of her freshman year of college.
2008-03-30 04:52:12 -
Canton couple swindled in mortgage scam (Canton Observer)
A Canton couple has been swindled out of more than $7,000 in a mortgage scam. The husband, 32, told officers that he and his wife learned of a company called Royal Advantage Group through Lendingtree.com and were approved for a $200,000 mortgage. In order to get the lump sum, which was supposed to be deposited into their bank account on March 20, they were instructed to send in an initial ...
2008-03-30 05:30:36 -
Reuters Business Summary (Reuters via Yahoo! Malaysia News)
Dubai, Brigdepoint plan $1.4 bln Euromedic bid: report
2008-03-30 10:51:54 -
Mark Green: 7 Days: It's Not McCain's Age But the Age of His Ideas -- w/ Ed Cox, Huffington, Green, Conason (HuffingtonPost)
If you like gunboat diplomacy and pre-Depression laissez-faire economics, McCain is your bridge to the 19th Century.
2008-03-30 12:01:19 -
Bad contractors hammer homeowners (The Intelligencer)
Anybody with a pickup truck and a ladder can call himself a general contractor in Pennsylvania.
2008-03-30 07:07:07 -
Flashback March 31, 2000-2004 (Saipan Tribune)
The exclusive right to own a land granted by the CNMI Constitution to people of Chamorro and Carolinian descent remains a major hindrance in the growth of real estate financing in the Northern Marianas, according to Housing Corporation Executive Director Marylou S. Ada. Ms. Ada said Article 12 in the Commonwealth Constitution which restricts land ownership in the islands to local residents ...
2008-03-30 07:08:06 -
Hiring a contractor is a risky business (phillyburbs.com)
Experts are warning of an uptick in fraudulent and undependable contractors.
2008-03-30 07:14:03 -
Investment Ideas: Time for some financial spring cleaning? (Arroyo Grande Times Press Recorder)
You may or may not engage in many of the typical activities of “spring cleaning” — uncluttering in the attic, reorganizing your closets, touching up the paint, etc. — but you can almost certainly benefit from “sprucing up” your financial situation.
2008-03-30 07:18:06 -
Administration pushes regulatory changes (Muzi)
The Bush administration is trying to confront the credit crisis that has rattled nerves from Wall Street to Main Street by proposing wholesale changes in how Washington oversees the financial system.
2008-03-30 09:19:40 -
Cash-up or get out, sub-primer told (The Australian)
Fremont General must raise new capital in 60 days or sell its banking subsidiary.
2008-03-30 07:00:00