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Strategic Foreclosures

Recently a story was aired on the news about the housing market in Patterson, CA and the dramatic decrease in median home values due to a high rate of strategic foreclosures. Also known as buy and bail, strategic foreclosures is the act of borrowers who have negative home equity in their homes – typically in [...]

Sluggish Real Estate Market Leaves Little Options for Responsible Borrowers

I’m glad I’m not the only one facing this dilemma (tongue in cheek)… Geithner faces sluggish market, rents out NY home – Yahoo! Finance In my continued efforts to upgrade from my townhouse to a single family residence I am facing the same issues as Mr. Geithner. I cannot sell my townhouse for an amount [...]

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