Back, or Front, to School
With schools back in session, many parents are focused on whether their children have good teachers, nice classmates and appropriate homework assignments.
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Mortgage broker pleads guilty to federal charge (Boston Globe) The owner of a defunct South Burlington mortgage brokerage is facing up to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to a federal wire fraud charge.read more...
Home Sales Fell Again in December Sales of existing homes fell in December for the third consecutive month, a trade group reported yesterday, even as the housing market registered a fifth consecutive year of increased sales.read
Reverse mortgage bails out seniors facing foreclosure (Lodi News-Sentinel) George A. Downey, a longtime reverse-mortgage lender, walked into a seminar designed to help people explore creative financing alternatives in an attempt to avoid default and foreclosure.read more...
Confused by all the Mortgage Options? Here's Help (Ridgecrest Daily Independent) (ARA) - Fixed rate. Adjustable rate. Interest Only. Flex. All of the different types of home loans that are available these days can puzzle many homebuyers. But, say mortgage experts,
Length of mortgage lends reason to pay it off early (The Christian Science Monitor) Our personal-finance expert tracks down the answers you need.
Bernanke Says Homeowners Need Extra Help on Mortgages More needs to be done to help troubled borrowers including a broader effort to write down the principal of some problem loans, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Tuesday.