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Steps to avoid losing your home - BBC UK News
Whether you are worried about paying your mortgage or paying your rent, it is vital to work out a budget. Can you cut back on spending or get a better deal on your mortgage, insurance or utilities? Can you increase your income? For example, you could ...
2009-04-07 08:11:00 -
Mortgage Rescue Scheme - yourcounty.co.uk
If you are having difficulty making your mortgage repayments and think you may be at risk of becoming homeless you could get help to stay in your home from the Mortgage Rescue Scheme. Mortgage Rescue is a government scheme which has been set up to ...
2009-04-08 11:20:00 -
Is mortgage offsetting the way to beat the rates blues? (Independent)
A succession of Bank of England base rate cuts has fundamentally altered the personal finance landscape. It may now be possible for some lucky souls to pay virtually nothing in mortgage interest rates, but for others the effects of the Bank's emergent resuscitation of the economy is less clear cut.
2009-04-11 06:20:23 -
Wealth Check: Help us clear debts and reduce our mortgage (Independent)
THE PATIENT
2009-04-11 06:20:35 -
Preparing for your first financial planner (East Valley Tribune)
Rebecca Warren: If you’ve never met with a financial planner before, or if it’s been years since you’ve visited one, you need to find a planner and then prepare for your visit.
2009-04-11 07:21:45 -
Westminster Babylon: The Great Expenses Giveaway (Independent)
1. The bath-plug scandal Jacqui Smith’s career is going down the plughole after she signed off expenses for two porn films watched by her husband, Richard Timney. She has paid back the money – but there are thousands of pounds claimed – that the taxpayer will not see again – for dozens of more mundane household items.
2009-04-11 07:22:17 -
Linton struggles to return to normal after record flooding (The Bismarck Tribune)
LINTON - Life hasn't been easy for Tom Sauvage during his first three years in Linton.
2009-04-11 08:56:29 -
Tainted drywall from China forces families from their homes (WTOL 11 Toledo)
A toxic substance is suspected of causing corrosion, health problems, and foul odors, bringing lawsuits and calls for government action.
2009-04-11 09:13:17 -
Subcontractor caught in middle of foreclosure (Daily Herald)
I was hired by a general contractor to do the heating and air conditioning work on a very large residential rehab. The total cost of my work was around $45,000. As I was finishing the work, I started to hear rumors that the owner was in trouble.
2009-04-11 10:21:17 -
Retirement planning is still important; some of the advice has changed (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
Ron Melancon lost his job a year ago in February, dipped into his 401(k) savings plan to pay his bills—and put saving for retirement on hold. The Henrico County resident is 44, married with two children—and at that stage in life where he needs to get serious about retirement. Yet, he can’t even think about it. “I’m focusing on paying bills,“ said Melancon, who worked for 14 years at Hecht’s, ...
2009-04-11 11:19:21 -
Owner leaves a mess (The Sarasota Herald-Tribune)
Question: One of the owners in our condominium purchased three units in 2006, and we believe he was arrested shortly thereafter and is in jail, and that the units may have been confiscated by the Department of Justice. The units have been vacant for almost three years. No one is maintaining them. The power is off, meaning that the air conditioners...
2009-04-12 12:07:01 -
St. Louis man sentenced in connection to mortgage fraud scheme - KSDK
KSDK -- A St. Louis man was ordered to serve 15 months in prison and pay $142,000 in restitution in connection to a mortgage scheme. U.S. Attorney Catherine Hanaway said Henry Broussard pleaded guilty in January to one felony count of mail fraud ...
2009-04-06 03:33:00 -
Crackdowns promised on home defrauders (Portsmouth Herald)
For most of our nation's history, pursuing the American Dream has involved owning a home. Few decisions have been financially bigger, and few have been more important, as families seek to establish roots in a community and secure their futures.
2009-04-11 05:10:49 -
Judge voids mortgage held by LBM (Worcester Telegram & Gazette)
WORCESTER - A federal bankruptcy court judge has voided a mortgage held by a controversial Marlboro "hard-money" lending company, ruling the firm failed to extend the loan contract within the required five-year time limit.
2009-04-11 06:14:59 -
False hope (Burlington County Times)
If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
2009-04-11 06:41:54