Real Estate by Dean Ouellette | June 20, 2010 
1 ) REALTOR, it is such a hot button word for many agents. How many agents are told they cannot use the word the way they are using it such as in website names . . . a lot of them. Realtor -vs- Real Estate Agent. When is it Appropriate to Use the Term Realtor? [...]
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As pretty much everyone realizes by now, the Obama administration’s efforts to convince banks to modify troubled loans has been little more than window dressing. Despite the $75 billion promised to fund the program, only a fraction of the people it was intended to help have received any aid. The problem of homeowner defaults has [...]
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Shame on Barney Frank – Democrats No Help To Foreclosure Victims Either
by Rob K. Blake | January 10, 2009I have written here on BiggerPockets extensively on the complete lopsidedness of the banking bailout and how the preference was given early on to helping Wall Street fat-cats over Main Street foreclosure victims. The bailout bill created the Trouble Asset Relief Program (TARP), funded it with $750 Billion of which about $350 Billion still remain [...]