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Filing 2010 Income Tax Return—Should You Get A Refund Anticipation Loan?

March 12, 2010 By: Red, White and Blue Press

Many people are quickly filing their tax refund and are hoping to get their income tax return as quickly as possible. However, there are some taxpayers that may not file quite as quickly as others and worry about a delay in their refund. When this occurs, people often turn to a refund anticipation...


The Subprime Lending Business Survives, Even Thrives

March 11, 2010 By: Time

Poor credit? It's still no problem for some lenders. The financial crisis was supposed to ring the death knell for companies that make loans to people who have had problems with debt. But a year and a half later, so-called subprime lending is alive and well. What's more, fears that increased regulat...


Facing foreclosure

March 1, 2010 By: VINDY.com - OH

A Legal Aid attorney says that the companies holding the loans are ‘terrible to deal with.’ Statistics back up what many of us could sense about the number of homes locally and nationally that fell into foreclosure last year: The problem got worse


Mortgage-modification program has little effect


February 18, 2010 By: Philadelphia Inquirer

Relatively few troubled borrowers are having their mortgage payments permanently reduced under the Obama administration's year-old Home Affordable Modification Program, data for January released yesterday by the Treasury Department show.


Inheriting Foreclosure

February 17, 2010 By: Janis Bowdler, The Huffington Post

Approximately 1.3 million Latino homeowners are expected to lose their homes to foreclosure between 2009 and 2012. As many as eight million Americans were behind on their mortgage payments last year. With numbers this large, it's easy to lose sight of their full meaning. However, when the National C...


What were Subprime Mortgages, and what happened to them?

February 16, 2010 By: gather.com

In recent years, there were a large number of mortgage programs designed to fit all kinds of people’s needs. Some of them were based on credit scores, with little documentation required for high credit individuals. This made it easier for self employed people to get a mortgage without producing so...


FBI, state warn of new mortgage scams

February 11, 2010 By: KLS.com - TV, UT

The economy may have had a chilling effect on many legitimate mortgage options, but the FBI and the Utah Division of Real Estate say mortgage scams are alive and well.


Illinois AG Files Lawsuits Against Two Reverse Mortgage Lenders


February 10, 2010 By: Reverse Mortgage Daily

Attorney General Lisa Madigan filed lawsuits against two mortgage brokers for using unfair and deceptive marketing practices to solicit seniors for reverse mortgages. “These companies used extremely misleading language in their advertising, sometimes even disguising their loans as government benefit...


Feds warn of top 5 mortgage scams

February 5, 2010 By: The Deseret News - UT

When given the opportunity, criminals will target whom they perceive as the weakest among us. And that notion could become even more apparent as Utah and the nation cope with the bursting of the real estate and economic bubbles


FTC Proposes Rule That Would Bar Mortgage Relief Companies From Charging Up-Front Fees


February 5, 2010 By: Federal Trade Commission

The Federal Trade Commission moved to protect distressed homeowners from the promoters of bogus foreclosure rescue and mortgage modification services by proposing a new rule that would forbid companies to charge up-front for these services. Instead, companies could only collect payment after providi...


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