Mortgage Loan Network

· A term that describes a homeowner who is behind on mortgage payments. The Mortgage Bankers Association refers to a homeowner who is more than 90 days behind as being in a “serious delinquency.”

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In horror movies, the doorway to hell is always in the basement. If anyone should come across a doorway to heaven, I bet it would open to a mudroom.

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Real estate editor Maryann Haggerty and columnist Elizabeth Razzi expand on a question submitted in a recent online chat.


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“I am familiar with many financial institutions but few community banks are so well positioned to serve their customers, even fewer have been doing so for over 50 years.”

Provident Financial Holdings, Inc. , the holding company for Provident Savings Bank, F.S.B. , announced today that the Bank appointed David Weiant as Senior Vice President and Chief Lending Officer. via PrimeNewswire

“Even with 35,000 or 36,000 single-family permits in a year, Phoenix still has a heckuva housing market”

The housing market continues to slow in metropolitan Phoenix, but the area still ranks third in the nation for home building. via Arizona Republic

Home foreclosures are on the rise in nearly all the Washington suburbs—areas that have been mostly insulated from hard times in the past. via Washington Examiner

Some local banks are rethinking the practice of using mortgage escrow accounts to pay customers? real-estate taxes and homeowners insurance.

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BARTOW - New rules that threaten to force Polk’s major water users to look for alternatives to aquifer pumping are raising technical, practical and legal questions.

DAYTONA BEACH - A federal appeals court upheld this Spring Break destination’s zoning and nudity ordinances, meaning erotic dancers in adult bars in most parts of the city can’t perform totally nude anymore.

The subdivision; it’s all around us. Here Nancy Botkin of Indiana presents a telling picture of life in such a neighborhood, the parents downstairs in their stultifying dailiness, the children enjoying their youth under the eaves before the passing years force them to join the…