News

2010

November

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  • Consumer Action Insider - November 2010. This issue of Consumer Action INSIDER includes stories about a lawsuit that is challenging class action prohibitions in consumer contracts, legislation to give student loan debtors the right to file bankruptcy, outreach efforts around housing and credit cards, and scams targeting to people looking for love on the Internet.
  • Consumer Action Insider - November 2010. This issue of Consumer Action INSIDER includes stories about a lawsuit that is challenging class action prohibitions in consumer contracts, legislation to give student loan debtors the right to file bankruptcy, outreach efforts around housing and credit cards, and scams targeting to people looking for love on the Internet.
  • Consumer Action Insider - November 2010. This issue of Consumer Action INSIDER includes stories about a lawsuit that is challenging class action prohibitions in consumer contracts, legislation to give student loan debtors the right to file bankruptcy, outreach efforts around housing and credit cards, and scams targeting to people looking for love on the Internet.
  • Consumer Action Insider - November 2010. This issue of Consumer Action INSIDER includes stories about a lawsuit that is challenging class action prohibitions in consumer contracts, legislation to give student loan debtors the right to file bankruptcy, outreach efforts around housing and credit cards, and scams targeting to people looking for love on the Internet.
  • Consumer Action Insider - November 2010. This issue of Consumer Action INSIDER includes stories about a lawsuit that is challenging class action prohibitions in consumer contracts, legislation to give student loan debtors the right to file bankruptcy, outreach efforts around housing and credit cards, and scams targeting to people looking for love on the Internet.

October

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  • Credit history matters more than before. When the financial crisis hit, many banks became tight-fisted, and plenty of borrowers walked away empty-handed. But financial institutions have emerged from the recession stronger and ready to lend. "Credit is available. No question about
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  • State A.Gs take on foreclosures. Have you noticed that the lead dogs investigating the mortgage foreclosure mess are not any federal prosecutors or national bank regulators, but rather the state attorneys general? I sure have. I can’t think of
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  • The Mortgage Morass. The mortgage mess just keeps getting messier. Last week, Bank of America announced that it had performed a “thorough review” of its processes, found nothing amiss and would soon restart 102,000 pending foreclosures. On Sunday, the
  • U.S. probing foreclosure processing firms. The more banks foreclosed on homes, the more a little-known company in Florida called Lender Processing Services saw its revenue and stock price soar. For a fee, the Jacksonville company would locate and assemble the
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  • Recession's reverberations keep pummeling the young. As the nation struggles with the aftermath of the Great Recession, few groups have suffered greater setbacks or face greater long-term damage than young Americans — damage that could shadow their entire working lives. Unemployment for 2
  • Short sales resisted as foreclosure revives. Bank of America and GMAC are firing up their formidable foreclosure machines again today, after a brief pause. But hard-pressed homeowners like Lydia Sweetland are asking why lenders often balk at a less disruptive solution:
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  • Messing with homeowners' tax benefits to cut deficit?. Could the forthcoming report of a bipartisan presidential deficit-reduction commission - due Dec. 1 - lead to fundamental changes in the way home ownership is treated by the federal tax system? Are you kidding? For decades
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  • Battle lines form in clash over foreclosures. About a month after Washington Mutual Bank made a multimillion-dollar mortgage loan on a mountain home near Santa Barbara, Calif., a crucial piece of paperwork disappeared. But bank officials were unperturbed. After conducting a “due
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  • U.S. probes if banks broke federal laws during foreclosures. Federal investigators are exploring whether banks and other financial firms broke U.S. law when using fraudulent court documents to foreclose on people's homes, according to sources familiar with the effort. The criminal investigation, still
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  • Bank of America to restart some foreclosures. Just 10 days after announcing a nationwide halt to foreclosure sales, Bank of America, the nation's largest bank, said Monday that it would begin resubmitting paperwork on Oct. 25 to restart foreclosures on borrowers who missed their
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  • Living together? Time to legally protect your interests. Living together outside of marriage, once associated primarily with Hollywood celebrities and libertines, has become so common that if you tell your parents you're moving in with your significant other, they'll probably roll their eyes
  • A little known loan for fixer uppers. Buyers of distressed homes or any other fixer upper not only face the daunting task of turning a run down property into a livable one, but often worry about paying for it all.
 

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