When your lender goes bankrupt
You’ve been preapproved for a mortgage and the lender goes bust. What now?
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Metro learns an expensive lesson (Reg Req'd) It's going to cost Metro more than $300,000 to stop doing business with a company it says defrauded its bus service for those with disabilities, board members learned Thursday.read more...
State, mortgage firms settle foreclosure 'rescue' case (Boston Herald) BOSTON - Massachusetts has reached a settlement with 10 mortgage firms over so-called home foreclosure "rescues" that authorities say were fraudulent. Attorney...read more...
Home Buyers Turn to Mortgage Insurance (AP via Yahoo! Finance) Private mortgage insurance is making a comeback. Until six or eight months ago, private mortgage insurance was out of favor as people eager to get into the roaring housing
Golf Homes in Rustic Locations For Less Than $600,000 Here are houses that are away from it all yet still within a golf cart's drive of one of the nation's top public courses, as ranked by Golf Digest.read more...
D.R. Horton says quarterly home orders fell 25% D.R. Horton Inc. said Tuesday fourth-quarter net sales orders for new homes dropped 25% from a year earlier on sluggish demand for housing.Commentread more...
Kegs an Endangered Species in Muncie, Ind. Beer drinkers in this college town will have to settle for bottles or cans - more than a dozen liquor stores have quit selling kegs.read more...