Caught in a rate trap

Story date: 2007-10-11 10:01:00
Added on: 2007-10-11 23:56:22

St. Petersburg Times - We had an aggressive home-mortgage industry trying to get people into homes they couldn't afford at a time when home prices were ... Seven of the 10 large metro areas now struggling with the highest foreclosure rates - including Miami, Detroit and Las ...


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