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		<title>FBI says mortgage fraud top priority for white collar crime squad</title>
		<link>http://loanworkout.org/2010/02/fbi-says-mortgage-fraud-top-priority-for-white-collar-crime-squad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:04:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Moe Bedard</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[FBI Mortgage Fraud Investigation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[loan modification scams]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[FBI officials said they most often see scam artists taking advantage of individuals whose homes are foreclosed upon.
Aldrich said these fake companies encourage home owners on the brink of foreclosure to sign their deeds over to them.





The company agrees to act as landlord and pay the owner’s bills if the owner pays them&#8211;but the companies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five California Cities Redlining</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:51:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Moe Bedard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The California Reinvestment Coalition&#8217;s new research in five California cities shows re-redlining happening through a pattern of concentrated predatory lending and foreclosures, combined with higher denials for new, prime loans in neighborhoods of color. Based on original research using seldom analyzed lending and loan modification data, the report looks at how banks, including the largest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Loan Modification Scammers Preying on Hispanic Homeowners</title>
		<link>http://loanworkout.org/2010/02/loan-modification-scammers-preying-on-hispanic-homeowners/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:46:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Moe Bedard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[scams]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The scams are as varied as ingenuity allows. Just when we thought we have seen every variety, we see something new,” says Richard Farrell, chief of the new Real Estate Fraud unit at the offices of Brooklyn D.A. Charles Hynes.
“We still have people forging deeds, powers of attorney, selling buildings to straw buyers,” says Farrell. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fannie and Freddie Still Hurting Big Time</title>
		<link>http://loanworkout.org/2010/02/fannie-and-freddie-still-hurting-big-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:20:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Moe Bedard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fannie Mae]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bank bailout]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Freddie Mac]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On Dec. 24, Treasury said there would be no limit to the taxpayer money it was willing to deploy over the next three years to keep the two companies afloat, doing away with the previous limit of $200 billion per company. So far, the government has handed the two companies a total of about $111 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maryland to Send Homeowners to Jail Who Vandalize Homes on Exit</title>
		<link>http://loanworkout.org/2010/02/maryland-to-send-homewoner-to-jail-who-vandalize-homes-on-exit/</link>
		<comments>http://loanworkout.org/2010/02/maryland-to-send-homewoner-to-jail-who-vandalize-homes-on-exit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:13:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Moe Bedard</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Homeowner Scams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homeowner vandalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[what can i take with me in foreclosure]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ANNAPOLIS, MD. — Maryland tenants and homeowners who vandalize or put graffiti on residential properties going through foreclosure could face steep fines and jail time under legislation proposed in Annapolis.
Delegate Andrew Serafini, R-Washington County, is sponsoring the measure, which would make it a misdemeanor punishable by as many as 30 days in jail or a fine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lawyers and Real Estate Barrons Continue to Swindle Homeowners</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:08:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Moe Bedard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[scams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[loan modification scams]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[reverse mortgage scams]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“It was so scary. I was just furious,” Kemp told reporters Thursday when it was announced that an unscrupulous attorney and his sidekick were responsible for “stealing” her home and using it to secure a $225,000 mortgage &#8212; two of a dozen charlatans in Kings County District Attorney Charles Hynes’ ever growing real estate rogues [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beware of Firms Who Promise Loan Modification Quick Fixes</title>
		<link>http://loanworkout.org/2010/02/beware-of-firms-who-promise-loan-modification-quick-fixes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:03:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Moe Bedard</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[loan modification companies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Mr. Berko: I contacted the Crowder Law Group to assist me with a loan modification. The people I talked to were very nice, and I have sent them two $600 checks and now they want another $600, but they haven&#8217;t done anything for me. I heard them on satellite radio and they sounded really [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Too many people are calling and are applying when they really don&#8217;t need the assistance</title>
		<link>http://loanworkout.org/2010/02/too-many-people-are-calling-and-are-applying-when-they-really-dont-need-the-assistance/</link>
		<comments>http://loanworkout.org/2010/02/too-many-people-are-calling-and-are-applying-when-they-really-dont-need-the-assistance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:56:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Moe Bedard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Loan Workouts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[home loan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Loan Modification]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://loanworkout.org/?p=8129</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Patricia Garcia-Duarte, CEO of NHS Phoenix, says, &#8220;Last year, in 2009, about 60 percent of people who came through our doors were able to avoid foreclosure.&#8221; NHS offers free loan counseling. Employees have special training in the loan modification process.
Garcia-Duarte says one reason for delays is that banks were overwhelmed with loan modification requests. She [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Homeowners Rent Out Rooms to Stop Foreclosure</title>
		<link>http://loanworkout.org/2010/02/homeowners-rent-out-rooms-to-stop-foreclosure/</link>
		<comments>http://loanworkout.org/2010/02/homeowners-rent-out-rooms-to-stop-foreclosure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:51:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Moe Bedard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[great depression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[how can I avoid foreclosure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[how to stop foreclosure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Loan Modification]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mortgage Help]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[While renting out a room has been around for years, especially in the South Bay&#8217;s Latino neighborhoods, sharing a home in order to save it has become an increasingly popular way to hang on to the front-door keys to the American dream.
&#8220;I&#8217;m up against a wall and I had no other place to turn for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Migrating Americans Finding No Hope in New Towns</title>
		<link>http://loanworkout.org/2010/02/migrating-americans-finding-no-hope-in-new-towns/</link>
		<comments>http://loanworkout.org/2010/02/migrating-americans-finding-no-hope-in-new-towns/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:40:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Moe Bedard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[great depression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[What Happens After Foreclosure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[where do I move after foreclosure]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Large outflows of income from Louisiana went to Texas, even as the state gained households. The new arrivals tended to have less education, and income, than those who left the state.
&#8220;It&#8217;s an interesting time right now because we&#8217;re gaining population,&#8221; said LSU sociologist Tony Blanchard. &#8220;However you have to look under the numbers and temper [...]]]></description>
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