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Chicago Tribune

Lenders sniffing out dishonest applicants
Chicago Tribune
There are "more fraud checks than ever, and it's on every loan, not just a sample," says David Kittle, a former lender from Kentucky who chaired the Mortgage Bankers Association in 2009. More important, perhaps, the focus now is on preventing fraud ...



Kentucky court: Copy no good for military power of attorney
Clarksville Leaf Chronicle
BRETT BARROUQUERE, AP LOUISVILLE, KY. ? Lyndon and Latonya Bartholomew wanted to give Lyndon the legal ability to take care of the family mortgage and other issues while she deployed to Iraq with the US military in 2010, so they brought a photocopy of ...

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Court: Military power of attorney can't be copy
ArmyTimes.com
By Brett Barrouquere - AP LOUISVILLE, Ky. ? Lyndon and Latonya Bartholomew wanted to give Lyndon the legal ability to take care of the family mortgage and other issues while she deployed to Iraq with the military in 2010, so they brought a photocopy of ...

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Court: Military power of attorney can't be copy
NavyTimes.com
By Brett Barrouquere - AP LOUISVILLE, Ky. ? Lyndon and Latonya Bartholomew wanted to give Lyndon the legal ability to take care of the family mortgage and other issues while she deployed to Iraq with the military in 2010, so they brought a photocopy of ...

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Court: Military power of attorney can't be copy
AirForceTimes.com
By Brett Barrouquere - AP LOUISVILLE, Ky. ? Lyndon and Latonya Bartholomew wanted to give Lyndon the legal ability to take care of the family mortgage and other issues while she deployed to Iraq with the military in 2010, so they brought a photocopy of ...

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Court: Military power of attorney can't be copy
Marine Corps Times
By Brett Barrouquere - AP LOUISVILLE, Ky. ? Lyndon and Latonya Bartholomew wanted to give Lyndon the legal ability to take care of the family mortgage and other issues while she deployed to Iraq with the military in 2010, so they brought a photocopy of ...

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Court: Copy no good for military power of attorney
Knoxville News Sentinel
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) ? Latonya Bartholomew wanted to give her husband, Lyndon, the legal ability to take care of the family mortgage and other issues while she deployed to Iraq with the US military in 2010, so they brought a photocopy of a notarized ...

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Court: Copy no good for military power of attorney
Lexington Herald Leader
By BRETT BARROUQUERE ? AP Latonya Bartholomew wanted to give her husband, Lyndon, the legal ability to take care of the family mortgage and other issues while she deployed to Iraq with the US military in 2010, so they brought a photocopy of a notarized ...

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A copy won't do: Court finds original documents needed to file military power ...
The Republic
BRETT BARROUQUERE AP LOUISVILLE, Ky. ? Latonya Bartholomew wanted to give her husband, Lyndon, the legal ability to take care of the family mortgage and other issues while she deployed to Iraq with the US military in 2010, so they brought a photocopy ...

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Lenders are using a variety of tools to prevent mortgage fraud
Los Angeles Times
There are "more fraud checks than ever, and it's on every loan, not just a sample," said David Kittle, a former lender from Kentucky who chaired the Mortgage Bankers Assn. in 2009. More important, perhaps, the focus now is on preventing fraud rather ...

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Utah Sen. Lee gives up dream home in short sale
Daily Herald
7 hours ago ? AP SALT LAKE CITY ? Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee has experienced the housing bust first-hand after short selling his dream home a few months after taking office. Lee's mortgage bank suffered a loss of up to $400000 in the July 2011 sale ...

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Utah Sen. Lee gives up dream home in short sale
Daily Herald
Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee has experienced the housing bust first-hand after short selling his dream home a few months after taking office. Lee's mortgage bank suffered a loss of up to $400000 in the July 2011 sale of the house in Alpine, Utah, ...

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Sen. Lee gives up dream home in short sale
StandardNet
By Contributed AP SALT LAKE CITY ? Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee has experienced the housing bust first-hand after short selling his dream home a few months after taking office. Lee's mortgage bank suffered a loss of up to $400000 in the July 2011 sale ...

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Report: Foreclosure filings slow in Utah, US
Real Estate News Utah
Foreclosure activity in Utah has fallen sharply over the past year, a new report shows. The number of foreclosure-related filings ? ranging from notices that a homeowner is behind on a mortgage to repossession by a bank ? fell by 21 percent from April ...

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Report: Foreclosure filings slow in Utah, US
Salt Lake Tribune
Foreclosure activity in Utah has fallen sharply over the past year, a new report shows. The number of foreclosure-related filings ? ranging from notices that a homeowner is behind on a mortgage to repossession by a bank ? fell by 21 percent from April ...

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Sen. Lee forced to sell 'dream home' in short sale
Salt Lake Tribune
Mike Lee was forced to sell his dream home in Alpine with his mortgage bank taking a significant loss ? up to $400000 ? in a "short sale" as the housing bust in his neighborhood drained his house's value. Lee purchased the home for around $1.1 million ...

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Utah's Retirement Fund in Good Shape Despite Recession
Utah Policy
While, actuarially speaking, Utah's fund is still underfunded, Newman said the good news is that ?we don't have to pay all? of the obligations today. He compared a pension fund to buying a house. You may owe $300000 on your mortgage.



Homeowners In 17 States Getting Shaft In Mortgage Settlements
Lez Get Real
Nine states are using part of the money for mortgage relief, and part of it for other programs. Indiana is using half of it to assist low-income households with energy bills. Idaho, Utah, Nebraska, Kansas, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Maine and West ...

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Consumer Mortgage Debt Falls Three Percent Since April 2011, According to ...
Business Review USA (press release)
Consumer credit card and mortgage spending slowed from a year ago, with the average credit card debt per consumer falling 13% to $5650 and the average mortgage debt decreasing 3% to $166631. Consumers in eight states decreased their mortgage by more ...

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Consumer Mortgage Debt Falls Three Percent Since April 2011, According to ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Oklahoma (12%), Wyoming (11%) and Idaho (9%) paid down their student loan debt the most while Vermont (8%), Utah (7%) and Delaware (7%) saw the biggest increases. Mississippi ($4232), Louisiana ($4504) and Alabama ($4811) have the least amount of ...

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OSFI Official Defends its Mortgage Guidelines
Canadian Mortgage Trends
HELOC growth has ?contributed significantly to growing overall household debt?If (or when) housing prices drop, households would be vulnerable.? (Two fair questions would be: how many households and how vulnerable? We have anecdotal evidence, ...



My Refi's a HELOC. Anything Wrong With That?
Fox Business
Home equity lines of credit, or HELOCs, and home equity loans are secured by the property. To the extent allowed by the tax code, based on the size and use of the loan proceeds, the interest expense is tax deductible. Home equity lines and loans used ...



Banks Not Immune to Housing-Related Failures: Corporate Canada
Bloomberg
HELOC Rules OSFI's guidelines suggest lenders limit home-equity lines of credit to 65 percent of the property's value. The regulator also recommends that HELOCs be paid off over a specific amortization period, like conventional mortgages.

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Dollars & Sense: What is HELOC?
KHON2
"A home equity line of credit - or HELOC - is basically a line of credit that's secured with a person's equity in their home," explains Lance Oribio of Central Pacific Bank. There are several different versions of a HELOC.



A lien can hit your home-equity line
MarketWatch
In other words, the first lien holder may not know of the HELOC, and the HELOC lender won't know of a third or even a fourth lien. What's more, they usually don't care because if the first mortgage goes into foreclosure, lien holders are paid in the ...



Investors' remorse
Winnipeg Free Press
Five years ago, at the peak of the stock market, their financial adviser persuaded them to use a home equity line of credit (HELOC) to borrow $140000 to invest in mostly equity mutual funds. "I should have retired last June, but because of this problem ...



Borrow From My Home Equity -- Just in Case?
Fox Business
A home equity loan is different from a home equity line of credit, or HELOC. I think you're actually asking about a HELOC. A line of credit can be a better financial backstop because with a line of credit, you don't have to borrow the full amount ...



Spring Mortgage Market Update (2012)
Move Smartly
The consensus view is that this change unfairly punishes the many borrowers who use their HELOCs responsibly in order to protect our financial system from the minority of HELOC borrowers who do not. We simply cannot ignore the fact that HELOCs were the ...

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Members of Bank Fraud Ring Sentenced in $3.7 Million Scam
Mortgage Daily
ATLANTA?After three days of hearings, United States District Judge William S. Duffey, Jr. today concluded the sentencings of six co-conspirators involved in a $3.7 million dollar bank fraud ring involving home equity lines of credit (HELOCs).

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Canadian Regulators Taking Closer Look At HELOCs
Wall Street Journal
Home equity lines of credit, or HELOCs, have soared in recent years, even after similar lending helped fuel the ill-fated US housing market bubble. Canada's largest banks--which have generally won praise for conservative lending that protected them ...



Mortgage schemer sentenced to 4 1/2 years
Columbus Dispatch
Eight people were indicted in the case a year ago after a long investigation by the Central Ohio Mortgage Fraud Task Force, which is made up of federal, state and local law-enforcement agencies. Several have pleaded guilty.

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City to join in razing housing
Wilmington News Journal, OH
A total of $288000 is available to Clinton County from the Moving Ohio Forward Demolition Program, according to Wilmington Public Service Director Larry Reinsmith. The funds are from the national mortgage settlement reached earlier this year by the ...



Plain Dealer

Ohio needs to restore drug treatment funds: editorial
Plain Dealer
John Kasich recognizes that drugs are a growth industry in a state gutted by job loss, mortgage meltdowns and budget cutbacks. He and Attorney General Mike DeWine have been aggressive in shutting down pill mills and raising awareness of the danger with ...

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ABC6OnYourSide.com

Alleged Mortgage Fraud Ring Leader Sentenced
ABC6OnYourSide.com
COLUMBUS -- The accused leader of a central Ohio mortgage fraud ring has been sentenced to prison. Nathan Orms, 41, was sentenced to 4 1/2 years behind bars Friday, for his role in the multimillion dollar scheme. Orms allegedly gained possession of ...

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Settlement grant would level abandoned homes
Marion Star
Lengieza said he has a deadline of June 30 to apply for Moving Ohio Forward monies, which are the result of a multi-state settlement with five mortgage service companies over foreclosure abuses, fraud and unacceptable mortgage practices.

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settlement grant would level abandoned homes
Marion Star
Lengieza said he has a deadline of June 30 to apply for Moving Ohio Forward monies, which are the result of a multi-state settlement with five mortgage service companies over foreclosure abuses, fraud and unacceptable mortgage practices.

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settlement grant would level abandoned homes
Marion Star
Lengieza said he has a deadline of June 30 to apply for Moving Ohio Forward monies, which are the result of a multi-state settlement with five mortgage service companies over foreclosure abuses, fraud and unacceptable mortgage practices.



Former Dublin Man Sentenced in Mortgage Fraud Case
LoanSafe
(Source: Kathy Lynn Gray The Columbus Dispatch, Ohi (MCT) ? A former Dublin man who flipped high-end properties in central Ohio and lived the high life with $3.4 million in kickbacks was sentenced today to 4 1/2 years in prison.

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Certification battle in Ohio MERS class action heats up
Lexology (registration)
The plaintiff argues that the case, which the plaintiff is attempting to bring on behalf of all 88 Ohio counties for relief relating to the allegedly unlawful failure of MERS and its member institutions to record millions of mortgages and mortgage ...



Ashland County Receives Grant To Demolish Vacant Properties
WMFD.com
Ashland County will receive $270126 from the Moving Ohio Forward Demolition Grant Program for the demolition of more than 25 vacant properties. The program is through the Ohio Attorney General's Office. Commissioner Kim Edwards said the commissioners ...

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