foreclosure crisis

Rick Sharga: RealtyTrac’s VP Discusses the Foreclosure Crisis & Offers Foreclosure Investing Tips

by Ronald Sklar | January 31, 2011

The unpleasant business of foreclosure has become big business these days: big, scary business, and certainly not for the delicate of heart. Rick Sharga, Vice President of the foreclosure monitor called RealtyTrac, keeps an unblinking eye on the subject. In the process, he is uncovering data that is surprising him – and us – more [...]

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American Ingenuity From A Small Guy

by Tom Koziol | March 27, 2009

If you feel bombarded by all of the news on the latest stimulus package, the latest “help-the-homeowner” proposals, the latest proposed changes to the tax laws, the latest foreclosure bailout proposals, the latest $7500 tax credit (that’s really a loan) for first time home buyers and all of the latest static in the air to [...]

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Unemployment Now A Driver Of Foreclosures

by Rob K. Blake | March 8, 2009

Our current foreclosure crisis over the last three years was mainly driven by subprime adjustable rate mortgages with skyrocketing rate hikes at adjustment. As a driver of foreclosures, this really wasn’t such a a bad one since, at least, there was an end in sight. Once the subprime borrowers were cleaned out, the foreclosure crisis [...]

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Global Economic Picture Darkens; Is it a Good or Bad Time To Invest In Real Estate?

by Charles Feldman | April 16, 2008

The last posting I had last week generated much discussion–I advanced the argument that the real estate mess we find ourselves in, and the resultant global credit crunch, is not likely to end anytime soon. And, that unless one happens to know what one is doing, this is not a very good time to learn [...]

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