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• Wachovia Changes The Lending Game

  Wednesday Jul 2 | via Realty Trac 

  With assets of more than $800 billion, Wachovia is the nation's fourth-largest banking institution .

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Local Headlines

• There's help available to avoid foreclusure

  1 hr ago | via Daily World 

  Have you recently missed making your mortgage payment, paid it late or couldn't pay the whole thing? If so, unless you get your financial house in order, you could risk losing your house.

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  Related Topix: Grays Harbor County, WA, Aberdeen, WA, Foreclosures, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Bad loans hurt Venture's earnings

  Apr 30, 2008 | via The Olympian 

  An increase in funds needed to cover potentially bad real estate loans cut into Venture Financial Group Inc.'s first-quarter earnings, the company announced Wednesday.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Grays Harbor County, WA, Lewis County, WA

• Washington editors: Killer storms top story for 2007

  Dec 29, 2007 | via Tri-cityherald.com 

  A series of massive December storms that killed at least six, left thousands flooded out of their homes and covered the state's largest highway with 10 feet of water was named the top story of the year by ...

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  Related Topix: Carnation, WA, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Port Townsend, WA

• Younger children are especially vulnerable in fires this time of year

  Dec 23, 2007 | via Daily World 

  The holiday season is always filled with traditions. But, there's one holiday "tradition" we'd all like to avoid this year on the Harbor: The increase in house fires.

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  Related Topix: Aberdeen, WA, Home Listing, Home, Kids

• Million-dollar property becomes storm casualty

  Dec 15, 2007 | via The Olympian 

  Before he put his $1 million, 2,600-square-foot waterfront "dream house" on the market last summer, Bob Hyde spent $250,000 on new hardwood floors, kitchen tile, a new balcony and a paint job.

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  Related Topix: Weather, Home Listing, Home, FEMA, US News

Regional Headlines

• Bush claims privilege to withhold CIA leak records

  Thursday Jul 17 | via Tri-cityherald.com 

  President Bush gestures in the briefing room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, July 15, 2008, where he called on Congress to move quickly to put into force legislation designed to prop up mortgage ...

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Financial Services, Personal Finance, Fannie Mae, George Bush, Washington, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election

• Top Story: Plame Games Continue: Bush Claims Executive Privilege On CIA Leak

  Thursday Jul 17 | via ABC News 

  The Associated Press 47 comments President Bush gestures in the briefing room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, July 15,... President Bush gestures in the briefing room of the White House in ...

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Financial Services, Personal Finance, Fannie Mae, Washington, George Bush, US News, State of the Union

• Law skewed in favor of builders

  Tuesday Jul 15 | via Seattle Post-Intelligencer 

  For the past two years, I've offered a bill in the state Senate that attempts to level the playing field between home buyers and builders.

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  Related Topix: Home Buying, Home, Thurston County, WA, Olympia Metro, Olympia, WA, Washington, Opinion

• Washington's population is growing, but slower than before

  Friday Jul 4 | via Seattle Times 

  The state's population continues to grow, but that growth appears to be slowing because of faltering economies across the nation, according to the state's Office of Financial Management.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Home, Mortgage, Washington

• Population grows, pace slowing

  Thursday Jul 3 | via Seattle Times 

  The state's population continues to grow, but appears to be slowing down because of a faltering economy, according to the state's Office of Financial Management.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Washington

National Headlines

• Angelo's Ashes Burned Us

  3 min ago | via New York Post 

  On July 24, 2007, then-Countrywide Financial CEO Angelo Mozilo jumped onto a conference call announcing the second-quarter results of his company, the largest mortgage provider in the US with a 15 percent ...

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  Related Topix: Financial Services, Countrywide Financial, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• More homeowners rent in sagging market

  3 hrs ago | via St. Cloud Times Online 

  MINNEAPOLIS - Sean Kirschner tried for a year to sell his three-bedroom home in Montrose but got only five showings even with a price reduction.

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  Related Topix: Minneapolis Metro, Home, Mortgage

• Power to end crisis in hands of lenders

  3 hrs ago | via Press & Argus 

  Mortgage companies were greedy and made mortgages that should not have been made.

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• Truth Needed To Stabilize Markets

  3 hrs ago | via Hartford Courant 

  It's not over. Despite mid-week relief for financial stocks, Oppenheimer & Co. analyst Meredith Whitney says the financial markets won't be able to stabilize until there is more truth-telling. Rather than ...

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  Related Topix: Financial Markets, Housing, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Ansonia, CT

• Plastic Problems

  3 hrs ago | via Hartford Courant 

  Where will the money come from? Gas and food prices are rising, mortgage interest rates are adjusting higher, loans are harder to find and unemployment is ticking up.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage