Family Wrongly Booted From Home Returns To Wreckage | AOL Real Estate

Seeded on Mon Dec 5, 2011 5:43 PM EST (AOL)

Amid the avalanche of foreclosure proceedings unleashed by the housing crisis, thousands of families may have been illegally booted from their homes.

homes, payments, banks, mistakes, houses, home-garden, foreclosures, foreclosure-errors

Feds: Seattle welfare recipient lives in million dollar home

Seeded on Mon Dec 5, 2011 5:19 PM EST ()

She lives in a beautiful waterfront home on Seattle’s Lake Washington.

homes, fraud, housing, assistance, odd-news, welfare, government-assistance

Angry Landlord Bulldozes a Mobile Home With Kids Inside in Central Florida

Seeded on Fri Nov 25, 2011 5:37 PM EST ()

In terms of effectiveness, ramming a front-end loader into a rental trailer home is certainly a good way to evict your tenants. In terms of legality, not so much. Especially if there are children in the trailer.

trailer, odd-news, crime, crazy, landlords, attempted-murder, bob-cat

The Cities Where People Finally Want to Buy Homes

Seeded on Fri Nov 25, 2011 5:12 PM EST ()

Like most of the state of Florida, the Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford statistical area was hit hard by the housing crisis. More than one in five homes in the region is vacant, and more than half of all owned homes are now worth less than the mortgages on them.

business, economy, florida, real-estate, home-sales, houses, real-estate-market

New York Foreclosure Law Firm That Mocked Victims Closing

Seeded on Wed Nov 23, 2011 6:36 PM EST (ABC News)

One of the major law firms handling foreclosures in the U.S. is closing its doors after being banned by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from receiving new work from lenders and servicers.

business, mortgages, jobless, foreclosures, robo-signers, steven-j-baum

Mortgage purchase demand rises: MBA

Seeded on Wed Nov 23, 2011 6:18 PM EST (Reuters)

The Mortgage Bankers Association said its seasonally adjusted index of mortgage application activity, which includes both refinancing and home purchase demand, slipped 1.2 percent in the week ended November 18, after a 10 percent drop the week before.

business, economy, mortgages, mortgage-bankers-association, finances, home-buying, real-estate-market

BofA Clash With Fannie Mae Escalates Over Loan Buyback Stance

Seeded on Mon Nov 21, 2011 3:53 PM EST (Bloomberg.com)

Bank of America Corp. (BAC) told Fannie Mae it refuses to cooperate with the U.S. mortgage firm’s new stance on loan buybacks, setting the lender up for a potential surge in claims and penalties.

business, economy, homes, foreclosures, real-estate-market, loan-buy-back

When It Comes to Mortgages, Women Don't Shop Enough

Seeded on Fri Nov 18, 2011 1:42 PM EST (AOL)

There's a surprising new finding that says women get lousier mortgage rates than men, but not because of gender discrimination. It's because instead of shopping around for cheaper loans, they rely on the recommendations of friends.

business, economy, mortgages, real-estate, shopping, debt, finances, home-buying