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MIAMI - The number of homeowners caught in the wave of foreclosures in October grew 25 percent nationally over the same month in 2007, data released Thursday showed.
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The firm now holds more than 67,000 single-family foreclosures.
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Salespeople suggest spending plans, selling collectibles, asking relatives for help, and more.
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Nov. 5--A month after passing a $700 billion bailout designed to benefit the reeling financial sector, the federal government is grappling with how best to directly help strapped consumers at risk of losing their homes to foreclosure.
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Nov. 4--As the nation's foreclosure crisis worsens and weighs down the larger economy, big banks are shifting gears, promising aggressive new programs to help struggling homeowners in areas like Sacramento.
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The government is considering a plan that would help 3 million homeowners avoid foreclosure.
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Treasury has authority to do so, thanks to $700 billion bailout.
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Oct. 19--Despite mounting foreclosures and loan delinquencies in Georgia, lenders and consumer advocates have been slow to rework troubled borrowers' mortgage obligations.
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Oct. 20--It's like a chain-reaction pileup.
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Oct. 19--This was the year Michael and Nina Phillips were going to build their dream house.
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Only a minority of dealers report serious problems; most just are hurt by slow lending to builders.
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Apartment executives cite financing challenges, rising supply of rentals as factors.
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Company's future depends on the availability of inexpensive real estate.
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Oct. 14--Dreary home sales and the credit freeze have toppled one prominent Oklahoma City builder and threaten another.
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Oct. 12--SAN MARCOS -- Faced with a proliferation of dead lawns and weed-filled yards at foreclosed homes, city officials are hoping to use a new state law to force banks and mortgage companies to maintain the properties they take back.
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DAYTON, Ohio - Democrat Barack Obama told Ohio voters Thursday that Republican John McCain's mortgage buyout plan would cost them billions of dollars and reward bad behavior by lenders.
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WASHINGTON - Ordering the government to buy up bad mortgages to cut homeowners' monthly payments might sound good, but experts are skeptical.
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Facing a lawsuit over deceptive mortgage practices, Bank of America Corp. is agreeing to pay more than $8 billion to modify hundreds of thousands of loans to keep people from losing their homes.
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SAN FRANCISCO - Once hailed for running their savings-and-loan company like an endearing mom-and-pop shop, Herb and Marion Sandler are now being vilified as ruthless home lenders who helped destroy Wachovia Corp. and contributed to the financial decay that led to the U.S. government's $700 billion...
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New ProSales magazine poll also finds frustration by dealers at getting builders to pay what's due.