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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

• Tax abatements not likely for flooded properties

  Thursday | via The Gazette 

  Tammy O'Connor of Cedar Rapids holds her hands over her face in stress after looking at the damage the flood caused to her and her husband's business, Wildside Tattoo, and the rental properties they own behind ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Johnson County, IA, Cedar Rapids, IA, Cedar Rapids Metro, Natural Disasters

• Cedar Rapids adds $3 million to business recovery fund

  Wednesday | via The Gazette 

  Federal grants from Uncle Sam aren't going to do it all. With that in mind, the City Council agreed tonight to contribute $3 million in city tax dollars to a local Job & Small Business Recovery Fund to help ...

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• Floodwaters destroy home of former TRF residents

  Tuesday Jul 15 | via Thief River Falls Times & Northern Watch 

  Angela Friend never made it to Goodwill. Good thing she didn't. She needed the old sets of dishes and pans once her home was destroyed.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Natural Disasters, Flood

• Faces of the flood

  Monday Jul 14 | via The Gazette 

  Sue and Roger Jensen had lived at 819 G Avenue NW for 16 months. They were renting the house from friends Steve and Jody Bursovsky after moving back to Cedar Rapids from Dallas.

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  Related Topix: Home, Home Renting, Home Gardening, Cedar Rapids, IA, Cedar Rapids Metro

• City, Port Authority go after brokers

  Monday Jul 14 | via St. Paul Pioneer Press 

  After losing a combined $1.5 million in mortgage-backed securities investments last year, the city of St.

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Regional Headlines

• Leach proves prophetic about mortgage crisis

  5 hrs ago | via Des Moines Register 

  From his office at Harvard, Jim Leach walked me through Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

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  Related Topix: Iowa, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• East-side residents fight mortgage crisis

  Thursday | via Http 

  Overgrown lawns, broken windows and tell-tale lock boxes are becoming more common sights in east Des Moines, where the number of vacated homes continues to increase as part of the nationwide mortgage crisis.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home, Iowa, Foreclosures

• Mortgage lending and housing market changes in Iowa

  Wednesday Jul 16 | via KWWL-TV Waterloo 

  For buyers and sellers, national economic and housing trends still apply in Iowa, just on a smaller scale.

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• Guest column: Free-market focus of GOP slows response to credit crisis

  Wednesday Jul 16 | via Des Moines Register 

  Iowa native son Herbert Hoover was, by all accounts, a caring and compassionate individual.

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• For Fannie and Freddie, a Feathered Nest

  Monday Jul 14 | via Air America Radio 

  International Herald Tribune By Julie Creswell As the administration of President George W. Bush scrambles to address the sudden decline of the two largest mortgage finance companies in the United States, some ...

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National Headlines

• Freddie Mac readies its stock plan

  8 min ago | via The Herald 

  Freddie Mac, the troubled mortgage-finance giant, on Friday took a major step with the Securities and Exchange Commission toward selling billions of dollars of stock.

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• Welcoming foreclosure

  1 min ago | via Dispatch.com 

  Ralph Stover has good credit and a steady job. But he took out a risky interest-only first mortgage and a second mortgage to buy a new 1,900-square-foot condominium in 2003 with no money down.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage

• Seven Days, Seven Projects for a Kitchen that Sells

  26 min ago | via Tideland News 

  In today's market, selling a home involves much more than posting a "for-sale" sign in the yard.

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• Affordable Bathroom Updates

  27 min ago | via Tideland News 

  With the slowdown in the real estate market, more people are looking for ways to add value to their homes and make them stand out from the rest.

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• Honor Your Word, or This Banker May Call Mom

  27 min ago | via HendersonvilleNews.com 

  Mary Milton, left, of Trapp, Md., treats herself to complimentary popcorn at Easton Bank and Trust in Easton, Md.

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