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  • August 2nd -- INJURY UPDATE

    WBBM - Home of Super Bowl XXXVIII in 2004, it’s the NFL’s first retractable roof facility. It opened in 2002 at a cost of ... Refinance, Special Purpose & Development Appraisal & Consultant needs in IL & IN. We handle Residential, Commercial, Industrial ...
    2007-10-06 08:34:00
  • It's Your Business

    Herald-Standard - Neubauer's Flowers specializes in the latest floral designs and home fragrance accessories. It's newest store, Neubauer's ... The loans can be used to reorganize the farming operation, refinance certain debts and pay production costs. Loans are normally ...
    2007-10-06 08:41:00
  • Bucking the Trend

    Leader-Herald - The cost of building or buying a home here vs. Albany or Saratoga [is much cheaper],” Yeardon said. The median home ... said. “What I have seen though with the fall off of the subprime market is people looking to buy non-owner owned or refinance ...
    2007-10-06 08:41:00
  • Real estate bust and foreclosure boom comes home to a neighborhood ...

    International Herald Tribune - The home hour has arrived. But sundown gives away a troubling secret: Behind dark windows and unanswered doors, it's clear ... With prices rising, they'd refinance. In five or six years, the Gustafsons figured, they'd sell for $500,000 (€354,000). They ...
    2007-10-06 05:14:00
  • Real estate bust and foreclosure boom comes home (The Times of Northwest Indiana)

    Out on Phoenix's suburban fringes, where cement mixers are fast colonizing hay and cotton fields, the day is winding to a close. The home hour has arrived.
    2007-10-06 10:20:40
  • Bagehot Had Credit-Crunch Answers 130 Years Ago: Mark Gilbert

    Bloomberg - Bagehot Had Credit-Crunch Answers 130 Years Ago: Mark Gilbert By Mark Gilbert Oct. 4 ... with today are powerful, as ripples from the crash in the U.S. subprime mortgage ... If the banks are bad, they will certainly continue bad and will probably become ...
    2007-10-02 05:54:00
  • Merrill to write down US$5.5 bil., post Q3 loss

    Stockhouse Canada - ... said Friday it would write down US$5.5 billion for bad bets on subprime mortgages and leveraged loans, becoming the only major Wall Street brokerage to take a loss from turmoil in the credit ... collateralized debt obligations (CDO) and subprime mortgage ...
    2007-10-06 09:39:00
  • Credit card crunch coming

    Union Leader - If you're tempted to use your credit card because your mortgage payments have become too high, just stop yourself for a moment ... As bad as the subprime mortgage mess has been so far, Hebert says the worst is yet to come. "The other shoe to drop will ...
    2007-10-06 08:49:00
  • Loan servicers reject attempts to renegotiate mortgage terms

    Charleston Post & Courier - ... the best interest of the owner," said Larry Platt, a lawyer with K&L Gates specializing in mortgage financing and consumer credit ... Her servicer, American Home Mortgage Corp., had sent bad checks to the county. That meant Walshe faced having to pay for ...
    2007-10-06 08:13:00
  • Shaky mortgages squeeze homeowners

    Miami Herald - ... publicized trouble with subprime mortgages, which were sold mostly to low-income buyers with bad credit ... he said, are relatively low-wage earners who were approached during the real estate boom by mortgage brokers who said, ``Hey, you got good credit?
    2007-10-06 09:10:00
  • Your Credit Score Has to Be Good, but Not Perfect

    Washington Post - Whether you're considering buying a new home or refinancing an existing mortgage, credit scores matter more than ever. To find out ... It used to be that if you had a bad score, you could still get the loan, you just had to jump through a few hoops ...
    2007-10-06 05:42:00
  • Credit card crunch coming (New Hampshire Union Leader)

    Some homeowners are now using credit cards to pay their mortgages. However, taking on credit card debt will worsen credit score.
    2007-10-06 09:17:27
  • Loan servicers reject attempts to renegotiate mortgage terms (The Post and Courier)

    NEW YORK — A cancer diagnosis forced Lindsey Jennings to give up his government job. With less income, Jennings feared he might lose the home he and his wife, Pearl, built near Atlanta almost 20 years ago. So he asked for help. But Jennings, who needed to lower his monthly mortgage p...
    2007-10-06 09:19:15
  • MORTGAGE MELTDOWN / Mortgage offers keep coming - brokers want commissions (San Francisco Chronicle)

    Ever since the real estate market boiled over, melting down the mortgage industry and its cheap-money feeding frenzy, I've been waiting for one happy outcome: an end to the roar of mortgage brokers at my various doors. But no. Via e-mail, fax, phone and daily...
    2007-10-06 08:55:44
  • Your Credit Score Has to Be Good, but Not Perfect (Washington Post)

    Whether you're considering buying a new home or refinancing an existing mortgage, credit scores matter more than ever. To find out what consumers need to know about their credit reports and scores to get the best deals, The Post's Mary Ellen Slayter recently spoke with personal finance columnist Liz...
    2007-10-06 04:15:16