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In Miami-Dade County, to the south, where 1 in 4 homeowners is 30 days or more behind in his or her mortgage payments, residents are bracing for what Mayor Carlos Alvarez says could be an imminent property-tax hike to fill an almost $400 million budget hole - a move...
• On the danger of using home equity to pay off nonhome debt: "A recent Federal Reserve report estimates that of the trillions of dollars in real home equity cashed out between 2001 and 2007, homeowners used $874 billion to pay off non-mortgage debt - in effect rolling consumer debt...
If the numbers and news about home prices, unemployment, foreclosures and the subprime-mortgage crisis have blurred your vision and made your ears bleed throughout the past year, this report will help boil it all down to what's essential - and it'll also throw in some graphic elements, if...
Why? Because the formula for determining credit scores, which banks use to decide whether to give you a mortgage or any other loan, looks at something called your "utilization ratio," the total amount of credit you use vs. the amount you have available. If you have $25,000 worth of...
Others think at least some portion of Fannie and Freddie may need to be nationalized. Congressman Barney Frank told the same group of reporters that it might make sense to nationalize the duties of Fannie and Freddie that have to do with promoting affordable housing. The job they do of...