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People Turned Off With Home Values Being Undercut
2008-03-31 14:22:00
More and more people are prone to walk away as housing crisis starts displaying. The value of most of the housing estates is sinking with the viewing ownership being reflected as worthless in the long run. Without the equity financing for the rented houses is not being made possible. According to Rick Sharga, the vice-president of foreclosure watchers of RealtyTrac, people cannot even sell off their properties as the values have dropped remarkably. People have been running out of finances to sustain in their usual standard of living as well as refinancing their house. People who cannot just make their payments or need to just abandon their ideas of relocating themselves from the cost of maintaining their real estates, become renters even before their credit deals are met. They may even be found to move in with their relatives as well. Often these walkouts have a domino reaction. As home prices fall down further, the sales spur off on the moment and they trigger a fresh lease of defa...
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New Legislation To Control Foreclosure Crisis In Maryland
2008-03-31 13:51:00
To combat the ever increasing problem of foreclosure in Maryland , the state lawmakers are embarking on a very ambitious legislation which will manage the real estate crisis by intensifying the process of mortgage lending and homeowner protections. A number of bills have made advancements in the General Assembly and all these together can bring an end to the loans and corrupt practices which are responsible for bringing about the foreclosure crisis. Most of the bills were proposed by Martin O’Malley, the Governor and they gained considerable support in the legislature that was mainly controlled by the Democrats. The measures taken would subject fraud cases to criminal prosecution. Penalties for pre-payment would also not be allowed. It would not be possible anymore to hoodwink the home-owners into handing over their properties to third-parties. If the laws are passed then the people of Maryland will be protected from losing their properties, said the secretary of labor, regulation ...
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A Word Of Caution For People Facing Foreclosure
2008-03-26 17:55:00
The foreclosure crisis continues to increase in the county and across the nation. According to experts, there has been a 100 percent jump in the volume of foreclosure since last year. Reports on real estate in many of the big cities, show quite a number of losses incurred on double digits in home values. It is expected that this year, some of the markets might reach a stable condition. The local market is, however, not feeling the burden of the foreclosure crisis thanks to both investors and a lesser number of loans with high risks. The investors in the world of Grand Strand real estate play a very important role. They own almost 70 percent of the real estate market in the locality. Two years back there had been a large sales push, during which the investors bought high. However, they put in only about 10 percent money, which was their own. When there was a shift in the market, they left quite some amount of unsold property and walked away. The prices of those properties are now fal...
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Foreclosure Crisis Hits Norwich Land Trust
2008-03-25 16:47:00
The Rose City Community Land Trust will have to face foreclosure due to taxes that have not been paid. The land-trust, which started operating in 1986 as a non-profit organization, owns property in the form of land and houses, all over the city. A paucity of funds and lack of participation on the part of the members of the board have affected their achievements over a period of time. Charles Glinski, the city Assessor had cancelled the nonprofit organizational status of the land trust two years back. This is because they failed to submit the necessary paperwork that was supposed to be given in every four years to prove that they were not required to pay property taxes. He further said that the land trust board was forewarned of pending action, but they failed to respond. The tax bills, which were unpaid, started adding to the problems and Cathy Daley; a tax collector had to put two homes with the highest bills into foreclosure. The foreclosure filings surprised the trust officials, ...
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Lawmarkers Of New Jersey Help People To Combat Foreclosure
2008-03-25 16:24:00
The lawmakers of New Jersey are trying to improve the situation created by rising foreclosures. In order to achieve this end, a six-month suspension is being imposed on the defaulters of subprime loans. This will create a new subprime loan fund that will enable people to hold on to their homes. Those who are facing foreclosure can buy some more time. This legislation was carried out on Tuesday and it would help the people facing subprime loan crisis due to low incomes. A number of people are unable to pay mortgages, as the low rates of interest tend to adjust higher, thus creating problems. Senator Ronald Rice has estimated that this year, around 16,500 homeowners from the state of New Jersey with subprime loans would go into foreclosure. He comments that the number of families losing their houses due to foreclosure was way too many. Rice is sponsoring the legislation, which is being carried out with Bonnie Watson Coleman, the Assembly Majority Leader. He feels that there should b...
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Rising Foreclosures In King County
2008-03-24 13:26:00
A recent report has declared that there has been a hike in the volume of foreclosures in King County . However, the rate has neither reached a peak locally, nor nationally. RealtyTrac, a company which keeps track observed that foreclosures in Washington, in February, foreclosed properties had jumped up by 37 percent. In comparison to last year, there had been a nationwide increase of 60 percent in the number of properties facing foreclosure. There had been a 4 percent drop in the volume of foreclosure in the national level. This was however less than the drop that had happened during last year. In the meanwhile, in Washington, the rate of foreclosure hiked up by 0.9 percent since January and in King County, the rate had hiked up by 7.6 percent since January. RealtyTrac had faced a crisis in data collection during the previous year and as a result, they were unable to give a proper figure for the year-to-year change in King County. Trustee sales are the primary step in the process of...
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Prevention Measures - Fight The Foreclosure Epidemic!
2008-03-24 12:51:00
When foreclosure news rang the distress bells for many home owners, this one will surely give some respite to many who are doing their best to save their homes. Many distressed home owners in Chicago now have a host of resources available to help them tide over the crisis. For instance, The Housing Department of Chicago is sending out post cards listing the available resources to home owners who face the foreclosure filing for the week. Usually, it is easier for the home owners to get the lender to flex the payment terms before the foreclosure filing begins. However, given the increasing number of such cases, the lenders are agreeing for a loan adjustment. Also, major lenders announced a ONE month “pause� immediately after a foreclosure is filed, allowing the home owner to try and work something before the procedure takes full course. Home owners in Illinois struggling to make mortgage payments will now be able to refinance their loans as the state has announced a $200 Million f...
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Foreclosures Show No Signs Of Stabilizing!
2008-03-20 13:36:00
Foreclosures are continuing to rise and people are getting hit harder than ever. Cindy Harnasch, title officer at First American Title says that in February alone, First American Title handled over 35 foreclosures in Coeur d’Alene. She stated that one woman lost about 15 properties just with First American and more through other title companies. Those who have bought up properties just for rental purposes are severely hit. First American Title and Pioneer Title are performing most of the foreclosures for homes which are contracted to trustees to sell off. Most of the foreclosures are from outside the area and very few local ones. It seems that the out of area lenders depended on the reports not in tune with the market and have overvalued properties and have over lent funds. Now those who have purchased such properties are not in a position to make payments post the readjustment of home loan rates. Shani Snyder of Pioneer Title says that many investors blindly followed realtors who...
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Foreclosure Aid At Hand For Those Who Need It
2008-03-20 12:54:00
The federal as well as the state government have located certain track changes in the modes of dealing with the increasing amount of foreclosures taking place in the real estate business. These plans include a wide range of actions that would sure-fire the targeted foreclosure fillings to a normally lower rate. The actions that would certainly bring imminent help and would get them to step into the right direction are going to be restrictive in some areas. A few of the recommended advice would be to take actions based on broader perspective. These provide more house owners bigger assistance and give them the needed time to start back on their usual lives after getting out of a house they can no longer afford to keep. The methods include a resetting of all adjustable-rate mortgages down to the rate that was effective after the first few days of adjustment. For instance, when the rate was 3% at the start and then it increased up to a 5% through the adjustment period and then jumped to...
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Foreclosure Season May Just Be The Right Time To Buy
2008-03-19 18:15:00
In all the confusion and chaos foreclosures have brought with them, they are also creating the right time for people to invest in their new home. Many Realtors and agents opine that buyers would like to look at such homes when they are intending to make a good purchase. Donale Bernarding, a broker with CyBer Realty, a firm with 30 agents says that they are trying to put forth the positive side of the current market situation. They have started a tour of showcasing homes to the buyers in the range of $150,000 to $400,000. State Department of Labor Licensing and Regulation, compiling data from RealtyTrac stated that the county of Anne Arundel foreclosures add 1,122 homes from January to September 2007. It is a 383 percent increase when compared to 2006. CyBer Realty is trying to create awareness among buyers to take advantage of this situation and helping them plan on avoiding foreclosures as well. The company has already conducted three seminars in February this year for buyers, bot...
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Foreclosures Beat Home Sales In Many Parts Of The Country
2008-03-19 17:38:00
Foreclosure notices being sent out at a rapid pace, in many places, has exceeded the number of homes sold in the particular month. The rate of foreclosures in Nevada is the worst hit with the highest across the nation. With the housing markets being hit continuously with falling prices and distress sales, worried government officials and voluntary service organizations are trying to bring about legislative proposals and other plans to delay foreclosures so that the homeowners can have some time to arrange for the payments. However, with no consensus yet with the legislative proposals, the foreclosures are still mounting. With over 153,745 initial notices being sent out for foreclosure proceedings in January alone (as reported by RealtyTrac), even sales of 43,000 newly built single-family homes means nothing. This figure of initial notices amounts to more than half of the total home sales made. Moving West, the situation only worsens with the home sales being barely higher than the n...
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Foreclosures Hit A 57% High In January
2008-03-18 18:21:00
Homes in U.S. have increased by 57% in January as compared to last year. The pace with which the foreclosure rates had increased had got under control since the government intervened. According to RealtyTrac, these measures have helped to subside the rate of increase of foreclosures. Mortgage companies as well as counsellors as endorsed by the Treasury have helped modify the intense risk-rates. The aim of these measures has been primarily to endure the affordability of these real estates as well as enable the homeowners to keep their homes with themselves. The rate of foreclosure fillings in January had a rise of 8% compared to the month before that. The real estate market has reported on the last week of February that foreclosure rates had spring up to a 19% rise a year back. James J. Saccaccio, the main executive of RealtyTrac, had stated that January’s foreclosure trends had gone up from a substantially increasing rate as compared to last year in many of the states in the coun...
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Measures To Help Tide Over Foreclosure Woes
2008-03-18 15:00:00
The last year saw a lot of trouble in real estate markets, with a massive crumble foreseen by March 2008. The federal government had taken a lot of measures to give homeowners their rightful relief so that they are empowered to maintain their current real estate properties. They have also come forward to help lending companies from going under or suffering massive losses. The ARMS or adjustable-rate mortgages have been scheduled in such and such ways that the property can refinance and reset itself by 3% or more equity along with the fixed-rate mortgage. This fixed rate is going to be backed up by Federal Housing Authority. Under the current plan, around 80,000 homeowners have been estimated to receive quality relief. The Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act of 2007 has been signed by President George W. Bush on the final week of December 2007. According to this, homeowners were no longer coerced to pay the excess amount of taxes on their debt amount and a lender was thereby not exp...
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Real Estate Prices Down In U.S. Due To Foreclosures
2008-03-17 13:43:00
The prices of real estate properties are going down at a massive rate with the start of foreclosure deals. As more areas face the tumbling down problems of foreclosures, statistics result in the most hard-hit real estate prices to date. Home prices have hit a rock bottom and slid down by around 8.9% in the last quarter of the previous year. About 8% of homes in U.S. have faced foreclosures in January, according to the California-based Real tyTrac Inc. Compared to January 2006, the number has actually gone up to 57%, according to the mortgage research firm. Standard & Poor’s index has in fact delineated that drops in the house prices in 17 out of the 20 houses across U.S. metropolitans have in fact put a downward slope of nearly 10% or more in 8 or more cities even. One of the index creators, Robert Shiller, has pointed out that the situations are bleak all throughout. The drop has been even steeper in the last week of February of this year. Nearly 23,000 homes have got the warn...
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Plan To Help Homeowners In Hampden County Resist Foreclosures
2008-03-17 13:07:00
With the large number of foreclosed properties in Hampden County as seen last year, about 2 million homeowners had to close their real estate properties under the dooming spell of a national security risk. Today several lawmakers have announced the limited distribution of $130 million across the country through the help of counselling of those homeowners who are at the risk of losing their properties to foreclosures. The U.S. Rep. John W. Olver, D-Amherst or the House Appropriations Committee chairperson of Housing as well as Urban Development has stated at a press conference that with the members of the Senate more than $1.3 million will be targeted to the Springfield metropolitan according to statistical survey. This indeed was modified with the plan to help distressed families under the direct impact of foreclosures. The families within the Greater Springfield area are particularly going to be helped from losing homes under this plan. The previous year witnessed around 728 forecl...
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Arizona In 4th Position For Foreclosures
2008-03-14 15:24:00
    The foreclosure rate has been soaring and has jumped up by 57 percent in January over last year as lenders are taking possession of more and more houses. The lenders take possession of houses when they have been able to sell off these properties at auctions. Across the country in January, over 233,001 homes were served with lenders’ notices as they had heavy defaults. If compared to last year, the figure was 148,425 notices. California based foreclosure analysis firm observed that almost half of these notices were served as “first – timeâ€� notices, which means that there are many new defaulters on the brink of having to face the foreclosure process. This situation has arisen despite many of the efforts taken by lenders to help borrowers manage their mortgage plans. Many of them have modified loan plans, have reworked long-term repayment schedules mortgage terms. RealtyTrac’s Vice President (Marketing), Rick Sharga states that people are increasingly falling i...
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January Foreclosure Report Shows Further Increase
2008-03-14 14:46:00
The foreclosures across the U.S. have faced a massive increase in January which has been an astronomical 57% more compared to the last year. Despite all efforts from the government to control situations within the sliding business of real estate, the latest speed of regulation has temporarily subsided. RealtyTrac has produced its survey reports and confirmed the statistics. Mortgage companies and counselors alike have got endorsed by treasurers with a modifying rate of risk-taking policy. This strategy also aims at improving the affordability of the borrowers in keeping their property intact. The foreclosure fillings in January had only gone up by an 8% compared to the previous month’s 19%, according to a real estate researching company. The number of foreclosures as suspected to have risen in January explicates that the number of foreclosures keep rising up from year to year in recent times. According to James J. Saccacio, the chief executive of RealtyTrac, this is a proven fact....
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Veto On Foreclosure Bills
2008-03-13 14:03:00
The White House has recently sought to veto a bill that would enable to follow up recent economic accelerations in foreclosures. The package deals in keeping the upsurge of foreclosures in check. The Democrats of the Senate had hoped to start on the housing bill on Tuesday. The main action has however been postponed until later this week. However, it is a promise from the Democrats that the deferment will not take as long as the Republics had taken with the Iraq issue. The housing bill statements would aim to change the bankruptcy laws allowing judges to cut back upon interest rates for the troubled borrowers. The mortgage rates are also being made to be kept lower for these troubles loaners. A massive amount of $4 billion would be given to communities that would enable them to make purchase and rehabilitate foreclosed real estate properties. The disclosure of subprime mortgage amounts on loan would be given on loans so that the very distressed loaners would not be surprised by a ma...
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Virginia´s Governor Seeks Help For Foreclosures
2008-03-13 13:00:00
The governor, Timothy Kaine seeks help for meeting the demands of mortgage faced by borrowers of that area. Most borrowers being on the verge of facing foreclosures, this has been a primary concern for the development of the state. The rapid stemming up of foreclosures in Virginia has made it impossible to make a good commercial progression in the area of real estate business. Thousands of Virginians are on the crisis of losing their homes. There are still others who have already given up and shifted in the passage of the last two years. The Governor ’s new plan, as introduced in the General Assembly on Monday at had posed that certain lenders in the real estate business would have the responsibility to warn borrowers against the perilous positions and risks involved with a particular transaction. They would also have to forearm the borrowers with a grace period, which would enable them to come back on track with their financial defaults. Some resources would also be arranged on so...
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Regular Foreclosures On Hold In Florida
2008-03-12 17:43:00
The chief judge of Broward warned that there would be an alteration in the way justice was carried out in the courthouses in Florida due to an impact, which would be catastrophic in nature. Criminal cases would gain more importance than civil ones. Rulings on dependency cases and child-support disputes will be delayed and parents dependent on the case managers for these will be forced to wait for a longer period of time. The employees of the courthouse administration will have to accept unpaid leave of 58 days in the county courts and 22 days in the circuit courts according to a proposal made by the legislature to cut the budgets of the state courts. The employees would not receive paychecks and thus their livelihoods would obviously be affected. However, according to the judges and the court administrators, the business held in courthouses would be clearly compromised. Employees like court interpreters, judicial assistants and case managers would all be forced somehow, into furloug...
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Foreclosure And The Role Of Default Research
2008-03-12 17:27:00
According to Default Research , which is one of the chief sources of real estate and foreclosure information based in the Phoenix-Tuscon area, the rate of foreclosure has made a jump of 147 percent in the counties of Maricopa and Pima in January 2008. Default Research reports that 1.53 percent of the homeowners in the area were facing foreclosure. The cities hardest hit were Phoenix, Glendale and Mesa. In the last six months home inventories have climbed up by almost five percent and there has been a fall of almost seven percent in median home values. The Phoenix area anticipates a rise in the foreclosure list of the Default Research bank. Serdar Bankaci, the founder of Default Research strongly feels that the Phoenix area will continue to witness major opportunities for investment. Around fifteen percent foreclosed homes are lying vacant and since these can be purchased at a rate far below the market value, they can turn out to be profitable investment opportunities. These can well...
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Rising Foreclosure Figures In Detroit Area
2008-03-10 13:23:00
Default Research is one of the chief sources of real estate and foreclosure information based in the Detroit area. According to them, the rate of foreclosure has made a jump of 38 percent in Michigan in January 2008. Default Research reports that in January 2008, 2,501 houses in Wayne, 713 in Macomb and 588 in Oakland were facing foreclosure. In 2007, the Detroit area was one of the most badly affected areas. Even though the rate of foreclosure is still on a steady hike, Default Research predicts that this year should be less devastating than the previous year. Sardar Bankaci, the founder of Default Research says that t according to the research, in Detroit, the foreclosure crisis was at its peak during the last year. He goes on to say that there has been a fall in the housing inventories over the last six months. Also, even though the median prices are still declining, they are on the process of leveling out. The Michigan foreclosures were at the heart of the nation’s foreclosure...
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Foreclosure Hike In South Florida
2008-03-10 12:54:00
Default Research, which is one of the main sources of foreclosure and real estate information reported that in January 2008, the rate of foreclosure had made a jump of 198 percent in Florida . Default Research has observed that the highest volume of increase was recorded in Broward which had a figure of 1,888 and Miami-Dade, which had a figure of 1,236, in January. Serdar Bankaci, the founder of the organization stated that there was not much difference between the end of year 2007 and beginning of year 2008 as the volume of foreclosure kept on increasing. He says that the foreclosure rate has gone up since there has been a hike in the field of speculative investing in the South Florida region during the last few years. Moreover, most people have their second houses in South Florida and people would rather let their second house get into foreclosure than jeopardize their primary home. Default Research had seen that in the previous year, the daily average of the number of foreclosures...
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Knoxville Knocked By Over 47 Percent Increase In Foreclosures - II
2008-03-06 13:25:00
A study report issued by CBER in 2007 indicated that Knoxville has not been greatly affected by the subprime mortgage crisis as compared to many other metro areas in the country. The default rate was almost 3 to 4 percent higher in Tennessee than the country’s default rate. While the state showed a default rate of 18 percent, Knoxville showed an increase of only 9.9 percent on the subprime mortgages. Those who have a poor credit history avail these subprime mortgage loans at high interest rates and are more susceptible to fall into the debt trap. Coming back to Tubbs, loss of his job cost him his house being faced by the foreclosure crisis. He lost his job in May 2007. Later in November and December he earned about $100 which was insufficient to pay for food, utilities and mortgage! Having his basic telephone connections cut off, he was not able to contact and negotiate with his lenders and thus his house entered the foreclosure process. Tubbs went on to file for Bankruptcy so tha...
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Knox Knocked By Over 47 Percent Increase In Foreclosures - I
2008-03-05 18:30:00
Imagine losing your house on Valentine’s Day! Well, John Tubbs could have lost his in Knoxville. However, there is some silver lining as his home has not come under the auctioneer’s guillotine at the court house. Many more residents like Tubbs in Knoxville have been deeply affected by the foreclosure crisis which is showing no signs of slowing down. Though the residents have not remained isolated from the crisis, they have not been overthrown by it either, unlike the situation in many other metro areas. RealtyTrac, the real estate research firm recorded Knoxville to have 2770 filings in 2007 as compared to 1813 foreclosures in 2006, showing a whopping 47 percent increase. Things could get a lot worse, people say. Knoxville was ranked 72nd in the top 100 metro areas of the nation hit by the foreclosure and mortgage crisis. With Nashville ranked 59th, the Memphis area was ranked 13th with over 22,000 foreclosure filings recorded in 2007. The Detroit area takes the top position wit...
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Home For The Homeless In The Guise Of Foreclosures
2008-03-05 17:59:00
 Sounds ironic if one said that foreclosures are indirectly creating homes for the homeless, doesn’t it? The nation’s continuing foreclosure crisis is creating yet another. On a given day, in downtown Cleveland, the vacant houses were more in number than the homeless on the streets. This situation is creating opportunities for numerous squatters. Many vacant homes (left vacant by foreclosure) are a delight for the homeless and are preferred over rundown houses. In fact, many of these homes still have the utilities like water and electricity still working. Convenient as it looks, since most of these homeless street dwellers are not on the record, they make most of this situation and start dwelling in these homes. Many others use these properties at meeting points for drug deals, prostitution and thieving. Though squatters face these risks, they still prefer occupying these homes as it gives them free shelter and privacy. The census of the homeless dropped to 17 from 40 in a part...
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Foreclosures Still On The Rise In Sauk County - Part II: Foreclosures Still
2008-03-04 16:37:00
A report by RealtyTrac ranks Wisconsin in the 29th position for having the highest foreclosure rate in the country. Even if the high rate of filings can be attributed to zealous data collection, Katherine Schauf, Administrative Coordinator for Sauk County , feels that there are some increases but she aslo says that she needs to take a closer look at the SCEDC report before making any further conclusions. The Sauk County in Wisconsin state reports 25 foreclosure filings ending up in sales this year as per the Sheriff’s Department data records. When compared to the same period in 2007, there were only 16 such sales. Records also show that already 54 foreclosure filings have been registered in the County’s Circuit Court so far this year as compared to 25 filings in the first two months last year and 23 filings in 2006. The first two months of 2008 have already seen more than twice the number of foreclosures than 2007. Merlin Zitzner, President for the SCEDC Board says that one cann...
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Foreclosures Still On The Rise In Sauk County - Part I
2008-03-03 13:17:00
Sauk County may well be up in the race to have the highest number in foreclosure filings according to data being collected since 1994. However, if one goes by the numbers, the foreclosure rates has remained flat despite the rise in the state. The numbers according to RealtyTrac do not paint a pretty picutre with 7575 statewide filings in 2006 versus 17503 filings in 2007. This is an increase of 133 percent. This rise is a sure sign of possible recession in the county. Recession has been the watchword splashed all over the news recently in the past couple of weeks. It looks like there might be some truth in the rumors of recession that are doing the rounds. Owners defalting on the mortgage payments have many ways to resolve the matter before the lender takes over possession of the home property. Not all foreclosure filing end up in homes goind up for sale. It ususally takes more than a year and half for a filing process to take effect in the court system. Data comparion of the County...
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Foreclosures Affect Owners And Tenants Alike
2008-03-03 12:53:00
While home owners are grappling with the banks and laws to avoid foreclosures and save their homes, many tenants or renters are also getting heavily affected. Defaulting home owners have to face the heat of their renters on one side and the fury of foreclosure on the other. No matter what the reasons for default, many renters are facing the wrath of the foreclosures though they are paying their rental charges and dues to the home owners in time. Tenants are being asked to vacate their homes for no fault of their own. One distressed tenant, Vicki Raiter narrates her story and that it all began just a day after Christmas when her Comcast, (which includes TV, Telephone and Internet) was shut down. This service charge was included in the rent she paid to her landlord. Subsequently, the electric company sent warnings that the power supply would be shut down and then garbage pick-ups stopped. Since all these facilities were already included in the rent, she called the owner and demanded t...
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Federal Judge Refuses To Block Foreclosures
2008-02-29 14:17:00
The refusal to temporarily block many foreclosure cases in the Hennepin County by federal judge, Joan Ericksen, has made it difficult for the borrowers there to prove their case. It is indeed a sad situation where borrowers are unable to slow the progress of the foreclosure case on their home, and many are likely to lose their home as a result of this ruling. This does not work in favor of either party, as it is unlikely that banks would prefer taking a chance on a foreclosed property to net them the outstanding amount in current economic conditions. The judge on Wednesday February 13th denied a request of ordering a temporary restraint against the foreclosures which were initiated by the national electronic mortgage registry. The registry initiates around 40 percent of the foreclosures in the metro area which is why this case is being kept on a close watch by the real estate financing industry. According to Judge Ericksen, the five defaulting borrowers wanting a class-action status...
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