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...homeowner-relief plan - local leaders are looking for makeshift solutions at the grass roots. One notion is to let cities use NSP money to leverage lenders into helping more borrowers avoid foreclosure. Since lender banks naturally want foreclosed properties taken off their hands in the NSP buyout - and since reckless and even predatory lending was so often at play in the subprime mess - perhaps they in return ought to be required to show some level of commitment to homeowner relief, such as revising interest rates and other mortgage terms. This month, in advance of the Dec. 1 deadline cities face...
...housing boom of this decade, some of the houses went for more than $500,000 - but now a number of buyers are wrestling with more mortgage costs than their battered finances can handle. It's a reminder that rash borrowers are often as responsible for the housing debacle as reckless lenders. But to prevent the foreclosure of a sizable chunk of an entire subdivision, one solution for Coconut Cay lenders might be to lower loan principals down to the houses' current, and more reasonable, market values (especially since the houses in many cases are worth less now than the mortgages...
Somebody: The Reckless Life and Remarkable Career of Marlon BrandoStefan KanferKnopf; 350 pages...
...movements, states should protect their own order, and all their citizens, by insisting upon a super-majority threshhold when amendments are at hand. While this may be understood as a limitation placed on individual will, such a barrier would ultimately protect a state’s entire population from reckless legal dynamism...
...explanations all relate to his hard life as a homeless orphan in the company of his brother Salim (Madhur Mittal) and, not often enough, with the winsome, consistently abused Latika (Freida Pinto). Salim is a type-A troublemaker, a fighter and conniver, restless and reckless, and thus the ideal complement to Jamal's caution, sensitivity and resilience. These flashbacks constitute the body of a sharp, teeming, dark, very romantic film. (See other films from the Toronto Film Festival...