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Get your mortgage paid for by turning your house into a billboard - ABC

| InternAdmin
Braniacs From Mars

Advertising firm promises to pay the mortgage for every month that the house is painted

Obama cites conservative values to pitch progressive plan - TheDC

| Neil Munro
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Announced new govt-imposed program to require banks to offer mortgage-refinancing at lower rates

Obama offers cheap election-year mortgages - TheDC

| Neil Munro
Housing Starts

‘No more red tape. No more runaround from the banks’

Fannie Mae loss widens, asks taxpayers for $7.8B - AP

| InternAdmin
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$169 billion in taxpayer funds already spent on Fannie and Freddie bailouts

Boehner doubtful Obama's latest mortgage plan will work [VIDEO] - TheDC

| Nicholas Ballasy

‘The administration’s tried three or four different plans over the last couple of years. Frankly, none of them have worked’

Mortgage the future - NYPOST.com

| Kells Hetherington
Home Sales

If the country’s major banks don’t reach an agreement with the 50 state attorneys general and federal regulators in the next few weeks, a global agreement to settle the widespread foreclosure fiasco is likely going to be sunk for good

TheDC Morning: Soda tax will not make fatties less fat - TheDC

| Mike Riggs

Read TheDC Morning: An unvarnished e-mail summary of what’s really happening in political news

States, mortgage lenders in talks over fund for borrowers - WaPo

| Vince Coglianese

State attorneys general and the country’s biggest lenders are negotiating to create a nationwide fund

23.2% of U.S. mortgage holders are underwater - WSJ

| Steven Nelson (admin)

Additionally, there are roughly 13.9 million homes now with negative equity

New possible legal precedent for foreclosures - WaPo

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Some judges chastise banks over foreclosure paperwork

Bank of America finds foreclosure document errors - NYT

| Chad Brady (admin)

Bank of America has confirmed that it has discovered errors, including incorrect data and misspelled names, in the foreclosure paperwork it has reviewed

Nicolas Cage owes Nevada bank over $2.5 million - Radar Online

| Julia McClatchy (admin)

Actor Nicolas Cage has been ordered by the District Court in Clark County, Nevada to pay $2,511,605.74 to Nevada State Bank in costs relating to his foreclosed property in Nevada

Obama has no plan for part two of mortgage meltdown - TheDC

| Mike Riggs

Administration ‘committed to forcing banks to change the way they do business…’ later

Fed leans on banks to buy back bad mortgages - NYT

| interns

If the banks are indeed forced to spend tens of billions to buy back securities, they could turn once again to the federal government for help

Families don't need government adding to their financial burdens

| David Lukas

Families have to stand up to Washington before it buries them in a mountain of debt.

It's time to foreclose on big government

| Hon. Ernest Istook

The paperwork — the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution — has already been signed.

US mortgage rates hit record lows this week - Reuters

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The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage has now been under 5 percent for 23 weeks in row

One nation, under fraud - TheDC

| interns

The shocking story of rampant bank fraud that could cost you your home, whether you have a mortgage or not

Attorneys general in 50 states join foreclosure probe - BusinessWeek

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Bank of America extended a freeze on foreclosures to all 50 states as concern spread among officials that homes were being seized based on faulty data

Foreclosures complicated by mortgage rodeo - USA Today

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Homeowners are fighting foreclosure by challenging the legal powers of MERS, a company set up by the mortgage industry that is behind scores of foreclosures