3 Ways to Pay Off Your Mortgage Faster
Are housing costs your biggest monthly expense? For most American families, they are. But, there's a way to drop your housing bills dramatically: Pay off your mortgage early.
Are housing costs your biggest monthly expense? For most American families, they are. But, there's a way to drop your housing bills dramatically: Pay off your mortgage early.
Many who bought property between 2001 and 2007 lost money. These were years where prices aggressively increased, largely due to loose lending practices that allowed people to buy homes they could not afford using loans that were only temporarily manageable. Foreclosure News
Lenders issued an average of about 500 default notices per month in the fourth quarter last year, up from just 32 a month in the third quarter and 380 per month in the first half of 2017, according to figures from housing tracker Attom Data Solutions. But before you start cheering that Las Vegas' housing…
California's Inland Empire was hit hard by the 2008 crisis, with disproportionate foreclosures on poor and working-class families, leaving neighborhoods blighted by empty, vandalized homes. But then a funny thing happened: the rents in these blighted neighborhoods started going up and up and up, so that now 63% of tenants are paying 30% or more…
New York has signed into law an amendment redefining a reverse mortgage as a “home loan.” With this amendment, statutory pre-foreclosure ninety day notices and a “certificate of merit” will be required in all New York reverse mortgage foreclosures. Foreclosure News
Duke Tran, a Damascus resident with an extraordinary past, was won a reported seven-figure settlement of a federal whistleblower lawsuit he filed against his former employer, Wells Fargo. “In 2014, according to Mr. Tran, his boss ordered him to lie to customers who were facing foreclosure,” the New York Times reports . Foreclosure News
For the second time in six weeks, a company connected to lawyer Roy C. Skelton was poised to profit from a Pinellas County foreclosure auction that confused even experienced real estate investors. Similar to the case of a gulf-front condo that sold for $ 458,100 in June to an unsuspecting bidder, a Largo townhouse sold…