Why has our country become so cold-hearted? Isn’t it a fair tradeoff to help some who are undeserving if we can prevent hard-working families — at least some of them — to avoid losing their homes?
California senators yesterday voted to channel more funding toward the investigation and prosecution of real estate fraud in their state.
Throughout the subprime lending crisis and as foreclosures across the country soar, few mortgage companies have taken heat like Countrywide. Arguably once the most powerful lender in the country, Countrywide has become a favorite of critics, teetered on the verge of bankruptcy and was eventually acquired by Bank of America.
The U.S. Treasury Department is in the midst of asking — some would say demanding — that mortgage lenders adopt a new set of uniform, but voluntary, rules that would make it easier for them to modify mortgage loans that homeowners can no longer afford.
How common are housing foreclosures becoming? According to RealtyTrac, an online publisher of foreclosure data, one in every 194 U.S. households received a foreclosure filing during the first quarter of the year.
Surprisingly enough, in this severe housing downturn, several governments across the country are proposing increases in homeowners’ property tax rates.
What can you do if someone starts building a giant home, one that dwarfs the others in your neighborhood, next door to you? Or down the block? Can you stop it?
And overwhelmingly, people I speak with are ticked off that the government is even considering helping folks who can no longer afford their monthly mortgage payments.
When owners learn they are losing their house to foreclosure, they get mad. They take it out on the house because there’s no one else they can go after. So you find holes in walls, torn carpet, cigarette burns in countertops.
Here’s a chilling scam: Not only are con artists stealing people’s identities, they’re stealing their homes, too.
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Written by Dan Rafter [email] for b5media.
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