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• Beyond the Foreclosure Blame Game

  Wednesday Jun 18 | via Realty Trac 

  Real estate investors are becoming a convenient scapegoat for many looking to assign blame for the recent surge in foreclosures and faltering real estate market.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Real Estate, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

Local Headlines

• Habitat for Humanity plans big for Act! Speak! Build! Week

  Mar 31, 2008 | via The Daily Vidette 

  Issue date: 4/1/08 Section: Features Children of the recipient family, Kobe, 7 years old, and Trinity, 3 years old, help Kurt and Sarina Peavler break the ground at the dedication ceremony on Saturday morning.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, McLean County, IL

• February home sales up in McLean County compared to last year

  Mar 25, 2008 | via Http 

  By Colleen Reynolds More homes were sold last month in Bloomington-Normal than last February, and average prices are up by as much as $17,000 for the first two months of the year from a year ago.

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  Related Topix: Housing, McLean County, IL

• Survey shows how B-N stacks up in cost of living

  Feb 21, 2008 | via Pantagraph 

  By Michelle Koetters mkoetters@pantagraph.com BLOOMINGTON -- At work, at home and around the community, consumers everywhere talk about the cost of gas, groceries and heat.

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  Related Topix: Community Bank of Northern Virginia, Banking, Financial Services, McLean County, IL, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Bloomington, IL

Regional Headlines

• Briefcase

  20 hrs ago | via Lincoln-Way Sun 

  Rhonda Altman of Shorewood recently joined Realty Executives Success as a Realtor.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Illinois

• Big Government: It's always about coercion

  Yesterday | via PittsburghLIVE.com 

  As the nation braces for a long and grueling presidential contest, what are the chances that either candidate -- Democrat Sen.

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  Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, John McCain, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Illinois, Illinois Government, 2008 Presidential Election

• Obama's Excellent Deal

  Wednesday Jul 2 | via Little Green Footballs 

  Some interesting news at the Washington Post, about a wonderful deal that Barack Obama received on his home loan: Obama Got Discount on Home Loan .

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  Related Topix: US News, US Politics, Barack Obama, US Senate, Democrat, Barack Obama, Illinois, Illinois Government, Banking, Financial Services, Northern Trust, Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Mortgage

• Community organizer

  Friday Jul 4 | via The Belmont Club 

  Binyamin Appelbaum of the Boston Globe describes how Chicago proved that it is actually possible to build a perpetual motion - ahem - perpetual money machine.

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  Related Topix: Illinois, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Home, Mortgage, Barack Obama, US Senate, Democrat

• Illinois Style: Artist's home is art

  Friday Jul 4 | via Chicago Tribune 

  During the mid-1970s, Harold Gregor and his friends were consumed with the notion of moving to New York City and becoming part of the art scene, but when talk turned to action, the friends moved and Gregor ...

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  Related Topix: Illinois, Real Estate, Home Listing, Home

National Headlines

• Sister-Owned Welch Builders Thrives Despite Tough Market

  5 min ago | via The Daily News 

  IN THE BLOOD: Dawn Kinard, who co-founded Welch Builders LLC with her sister, Danya Welch, stands beneath a portrait of her father, Jackie Welch, owner of Welch Realty.

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  Related Topix: Germantown, TN, Real Estate, Shelby County, TN, Collierville, TN, Opinion

• Pawning Jewels Or TV's For Gas $$$

  5 min ago | via WBAL-AM Baltimore 

  This Liberty Loan and Jewelry employee holds up a ring and a necklace recently sold at the shop.

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  Related Topix: Baltimore Metro, Gwynn-Oak, MD, Mortgage, Home

• American dream goes global

  9 min ago | via Boston.com 

  She was raised in a little wooden house with a thatched roof in the Dominican Republic, a nation she left behind 17 years ago to clean offices in Boston's skyscrapers and dorm rooms at Harvard University.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Foreclosures, World News, Dominican Republic, Central America, Boston, MA

• Beware of reverse mortage scams

  11 min ago | via Jacksonville Daily News 

  Columnist's Note: This letter has been edited for length. Dear Troubleshooter: I read your column all the time and find it most informative.

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  Related Topix: Family, Elderly, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Others' economic woes bring business to bankruptcy attorney

  14 min ago | via The Business Journal of Phoenix 

  High foreclosure rates and the increasing number of individual and small-business bankruptcies are keeping attorney Dan Gukeisen’s services in demand.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures