Foreclosure Connections Blog

The current real estate crisis in America is far from over and it is affecting thousands of lenders, neighborhoods, the building industry and especially home owners. But the effects of the crisis are even worse the present problems. Homeowners that are going through foreclosure today will suffer even more in the future by the bad credit, and most of them will have to wait five years to be able to get a new mortgage. The current foreclosure crisis is becoming the future credit crisis and it will have innumerous consequences to many sectors of our economy in a near future.

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San Diego police arrested four people related to a gigantic foreclosed home scam that tricked 400 home owners into paying rents and fees to a San Diego based group. The scam was based on a false foreclosure rescue plan where home owners would pay a fee to the company with the promise of help on getting their homes back, but the company did nothing to prevent the foreclosures.

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The current mortgage crisis has been already compared to the great depression, and it is affecting thousands of lenders, homeowners, the building industry and even giants of the home industry such as Lowe’s and Home Depot. But recent reports had shown that the foreclosure crisis is not only causing people to lose their homes, but also their marriages and their families. The devastation trend starts when the owners cannot afford to their mortgages and starts taking their frustrations on each other.

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It was predicted that Home Depot (HD) and Lowe´s (LOW) would get hammered by the housing crisis. But not as hard as they thought. With the rising oil, rising food prices and the real estate foreclosure crisis, customers are not buying at all.

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John Davis, a Des Moines real estate investor has been banned from making real estate businesses in Iowa. The Polk Country District Court banned Davis from selling, renting, lease or invest on the states real estate market.

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According to the state judicial website, the individuals that helped saving the Waterford Speedbowl’s ownership group from foreclosure last supper are the ones taking the Speedbowl property to foreclosure auction. Peter Borelli and Rocco Arbitell helped the ownership group, when the Washington Mutual Bank was preparing to put the Speedbowl property 1080 Hartford Road in auction last summer.

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Sen. Hillary Clinton attacked the future Republican nominee Sen. John McCain, on his foreclosure crisis plan and economic policy. According to Sen. Clinton, MCCain´s economic plan policy boiled down to this: “Don’t just continue driving our nation in the wrong direction. Put your foot on the accelerator and gun it”.

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The Field Asset Services (FAS), a company that works together with lenders and banks to prepare homes that are in foreclosure for sale, has hit the wrong unit on a condo in Stockton, CA. FAS was supposed to inspect the unit 232, and instead they entered and re-keyed unit 2 where Ruth Anderson lives.

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The Exchange Commission and Security filed fraud charges against the promoters of a real estate investment scheme that operated a fraudulent foreclosure reinstatement scheme. The scheme started in 2005 and got around $18 million in only two years. More than 600 people were caught by the scheme with the promise that they could get returns of 50% of their investment within 30 days.

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The Senator Barack Obama, Democratic presidential runner said on Tuesday that the real estate foreclosure crisis is similar to the Great Depression that occurred in the late 20s. He pointed that the housing crisis is far from going into the direction of the Depression, but the way it affected Wall Street and the financial market is very similar.

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