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Police Officers Fighting Crime By Fighting Foreclosure

by Moe Bedard

Officers Connecting At-Risk Homeowners With Foreclosure Help
MILWAUKEE — Police officers are joining forces with city and community organizations to connect at-risk homeowners with foreclosure help

Some Milwaukee police officers are engaged in a different type of foot patrol — they are fighting crime by fighting foreclosure.
“Empty homes impact our area because a lot of crimes occur [...]

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Arizona homeowners get free foreclosure help

by Moe Bedard

GLENDALE, Ariz. — Struggling homeowners from across the Valley made their way to Glendale on Thursday to try and save their homes.

They attended a workshop designed to help homeowners on the verge of foreclosure.

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Fighting foreclosures and winning

by Moe Bedard

Unbeknownst to the 71-yearold homeowner, he had somehow missed a mortgage payment a couple of years ago. The accumulating interest and penalties from the late payment threatened to put Mr. McConnell two months behind on his mortgage — and possibly subject to foreclosure.

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Homeowners face the fear of foreclosure

by Moe Bedard

Tracy Jackson wasn’t sure when she arrived at a foreclosure-prevention workshop Saturday morning whether she would be able to hold on to the West Baltimore rowhouse she’s owned for past five years.
Two hours later, she was breathing a sigh of relief.

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Chicago lawyers offer free foreclosure help

by Moe Bedard

Lawyers from the Lake County Bar Association will be offering free help to people who are on the brink of foreclosure on Saturday, March 6, in Grayslake.
The lawyers, who are specially trained and volunteering their assistance, will be at the University Center on the College of Lake County campus in Grayslake from 8 a.m. to [...]

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Fannie Mae Opens First Local Mortgage Help Center to Accelerate Service to Struggling Homeowners in South Florida

by Moe Bedard

Goal is Improved Resolution of Problem Loans – Partners Include Wide Range of Civic and Community Leaders 
WASHINGTON, DC — In the first of a series of planned nationwide Mortgage Help Centers, Fannie Mae (FNM/NYSE) announced the opening of a new Help Center in Miami that will accelerate the response time for struggling borrowers in South [...]

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Free Foreclosure Seminar in the Inland Empire on Feb. 20th

by Moe Bedard

Last year, there were eight similar workshops; at least five are planned this year.
About 300 people are expected to attend the Central Park event.
Hooker said the region is still
in the thick of the foreclosure crisis. He said the Inland Empire is expected to see 100,000 foreclosures in the next two years.

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Need to Stop Foreclosure? List of Foreclosure Prevention Workshops

by Moe Bedard

FREE Foreclosure Prevention Workshops for Consumers – Looking to stop foreclosure and need FREE foreclosure prevention advice? Do you want to avoid being scammed by loan modification sharks? Then please attend one of these foreclosure workshops for homeowners sponsored by a community-based organization in your area.
Please click on the ‘Event Details’ links for dates and [...]

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People want to know what in the ‘hud’ the feds were thinking

by Moe Bedard

Logic dictates that since Southern Nevada has one of the highest foreclosure rates in the nation, we’d be a lock for millions of dollars in federal stimulus money to ease the crisis, but that’s not the case.
The only sure thing is that a lot of people want to know what in the ‘hud’ the feds [...]

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Many mortgage modifications push payments …. higher

by Moe Bedard

Tens of thousands of financially strapped homeowners who have asked lenders to lower their mortgage payments are instead winding up with higher monthly payments and larger debts on their homes.
Homeowners who were hoping for lower payments are discovering to their dismay that lenders roll late fees, back taxes or other costs into the principal, sometimes [...]

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Free legal aid available for low-, middle-income homeowners facing foreclosure in Washington

by Moe Bedard

The Washington State Bar Association has launched a program to provide free legal help to low- and middle-income people in danger of losing their homes to foreclosure.
Homeowners who call a toll-free number will be referred to volunteer attorneys in their communities who are trained to deal with foreclosure-related issues.
The bar association started recruiting and training [...]

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Emergency mortgage assistance programs for homeowners

by Moe Bedard

Millions of homeowners are looking for immediate help to stop foreclosure. They just do not have time to play games for months on the phone and they need legitimate emergency mortgage assistance programs NOW!
If you came across this blog, the good news is that I have the most current list of available free services that [...]

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Can all homeowners get free foreclosure help?

by Moe Bedard

There has been a great deal of negative press regarding paid foreclosure assistance and in particular, loan modifications.
The media has taken the loan modification ball and they are sounding the TV trumpets, mis-informing consumers by the millions, “DON’T PAY FOR LOAN MODIFICATION ASSISTANCE!” “If anyone asks for money to help you avoid foreclosure , run!” 
Personally, I [...]

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Attorney: Bailout Bill Fails Foreclosed Homeowners

by Moe Bedard

When Baron decided to become a homeowner a few years ago he thought he was doing the right thing. He says he went to the wrong person to make his dream of homeownership come true.
“What they told us is after three years we could come back and re-finance,” Baron, who didn’t want to share his [...]

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ANALYSIS OF SUBPRIME MORTGAGE SERVICING PERFORMANCE

by Moe Bedard

Nearly one year ago, the State Foreclosure Prevention Working Group met with the 20
largest servicers of subprime mortgage loans to discuss opportunities to prevent
unnecessary foreclosures. Over the past year, the State Working Group, composed of
state attorneys general and state banking regulators, has collected data monthly from 13
of these 20 servicers and published two reports on [...]

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Nearly eight out of ten seriously delinquent homeowners are not on track for any loss mitigation outcome

by Moe Bedard

These days, it may look like the Wall Street trading floor is ground zero for the country’s economic crisis, but the root of the problem is still in your neighborhood.
The State Foreclosure Prevention Working Group, a coalition of officials and mortgage servicers in North Carolina, California, New York and other states, has just put out [...]

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Lender cuts Mass. deal over subprime mortgages

by Moe Bedard

A California investment firm has agreed to modify 200 Massachusetts homeowners’ subprime mortgages – slashing interest rates and forgiving thousands of dollars in late charges, legal fees and past-due interest.
“This shows what can be done if (the banking industry) looks beyond just saying: ‘Let’s foreclose,’ ” Attorney General Martha Coakley said yesterday in unveiling a [...]

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Foreclosure help on the internet for homeowners from LoanSafe.org

by Moe Bedard

 Please join our one of a kind homeowners forum for foreclosure help. A safe place where you can ask questions and get answers in this unique and interactive community that was created to assist people in an anonymous, yet open format. Meet other homeowners that are going through the same thing and get the help you need [...]

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