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Editorial: Mortgage fraud is overdue target for state prosecutors

Editorial: Mortgage fraud is overdue target for state prosecutors California homeowners and some former homeowners can take heart from this week’s announcement of a crackdown on mortgage fraud in the Golden State. Read more on Ventura County Star

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Obama Administration, State Officials Expected To Give Banks New Mortgage Terms As Some Question Pace Of Negotiations

Obama Administration, State Officials Expected To Give Banks New Mortgage Terms As Some Question Pace Of Negotiations WASHINGTON — The Obama administration and state officials are expected to offer the nation’s five largest mortgage firms updated terms next week in ongoing negotiations over a settlement regarding the firms’ faulty treatment of borrowers, according to three [...]

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Interest groups target state races

Interest groups target state races EDITOR’S NOTE _ This story is the culmination of a project by The Associated Press and the Associated Press Managing Editors association to track outside spending on political advertisements. In partnership with the nonpartisan Sunlight Foundation, APME and AP trained dozens of newspaper reporters to find, analyze and report on [...]

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Underwater: Negative Equity Mortgages By State

Underwater: Negative Equity Mortgages By State Negative equity means the owner owes more on a mortgage than the home is worth — also referred to as being “underwater.” This map shows the percentage of negative equity mortgages in each state during the second quarter of 2010. Nationwide, 23 percent of homeowners are “underwater.” Read more [...]

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Consumer credit companies take hit: New auto title provision in state loan law will hurt them and consumers, lenders say

Consumer credit companies take hit: New auto title provision in state loan law will hurt them and consumers, lenders say RACINE — Charlie Buhler is afraid that Gov. Jim Doyle ’s veto penmay have killed the business that Buhler’s grandfather started morethan a half-century ago. Read more on The Journal Times

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State takes local money

State takes local money Sacramento just took over $1.3 million from San Rafael, and there’s only a slim chance the city will ever get a cent back. However, city leaders anticipated the loss earlier this year when balancing the budget in January, so no further cuts are needed to make up for the loss. Read [...]

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State Sen. Parker Yells, Accuses Colleague Of Racism

State Sen. Parker Yells, Accuses Colleague Of Racism State Senator Kevin Parker (D-Brooklyn) is known for his outbursts—for instance, he was arrested last year for allegedly assaulting a NY Post photographer staked outside Parker’s house (the Post was doing a story about Parker’s house being close to repossession)—but yesterday was a new chapter, when he, [...]

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State investigates TJ’s Quick Check

State investigates TJ’s Quick Check The Nevada Financial Institutions Division (NFID) has ordered six TJ’s Quick Check Exchange, Inc. establishments, including one in Fallon, to cease and desist illegal activity and has determined an unspecified amount of loans and auto repossessions are null and void. The NFID discovered Quick Check co-owner William Jones loaned money [...]

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Is California a state which make me still responsible for loan balance when they sell my house in foreclosure?

Is California one of the states which holds me responsible for the balance of the loan when they sell my house in foreclosure?

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