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

Local Headlines

• Ohio firm plans to reopen Falls SGL Carbon plant

  Friday Jul 11 | via Buffalo News 

  An Ohio company plans to reopen the old SGL Carbon plant in Niagara Falls and create at least 50 new jobs, its owners told the Niagara County Industrial Development Agency Wednesday.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Ashland, OH

• Franbilt plant bought by lone bidder at auction

  Thursday Jul 3 | via Buffalo News 

  A Cheektowaga businessman bought the vacant Franbilt metal fabricating plant at a foreclosure auction here Wednesday, while a Canadian businessman made him a lease offer.

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  Related Topix: Welland, ON, Canada, Ontario, Foreclosures, Lockport, NY

• Mortgage snarls Lockport property

  Wednesday Jul 2 | via Buffalo News 

  A local property owner, who city officials said in April was being given time to fix up houses because of a good track record, was summoned Tuesday to Housing Court for failure to fix up a house on South ...

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  Related Topix: Lockport, NY, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Foreclosures, Niagara County, NY

• Housing Court: City is seeking lender information

  Wednesday Jul 2 | via Union-Sun & Journal 

  A fresh batch of housing cases involving financially strapped property owners has emerged in Lockport City Court.

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

• North Tonawanda: City to seek funds from foreclosed apartments

  Tuesday Jul 1 | via Tonawanda News 

  A meeting Monday brought together local officials and managers of North Tonawanda's two low-income housing developments, now in foreclosure.

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  Related Topix: Niagara County, NY, North Tonawanda, NY, Foreclosures

Regional Headlines

• Bad economy means good business for repo men

  Yesterday | via Thehour.com 

  BRIDGEPORTAssociated PressThis is what it looks like when a gilded age turns to brass: the boats, motor homes and expensive cars bought during the good times are turned over to the repo men in favor of paying ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, New York Government, New York, Connecticut, Connecticut Government, Foreclosures

• Buffalo area tops for job growth

  Yesterday | via Buffalo News 

  Where was the New York State metro area with the hottest job growth in June? Would you believe Buffalo Niagara? While the region's job market was more tepid than scorching hot, the area still managed to add ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, New York, State University of New York System, Buffalo, NY, Buffalo Metro, Buffalo (State University of New York System), Allegany County, NY

• Politics is Everyone's Business

  Yesterday | via Rome Observer 

  The empire strikes back Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos is flanked by Deputy Majority Leader Thomas Libous, R-52 Binghamton and Senator Joseph Griffo, R-47. Griffo invited his fellow Republicans to tour the ...

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  Related Topix: State University of New York System, Binghamton (State University of New York System), Home, Mortgage, New York, Oneida County, NY, Madison County, NY

• Your News Dissector Goes To Washington: NACA Helping Home Owners Big Time

  Yesterday | via News Dissector's Weblog 

  I arrived in our super hot Capital City to attend NACA's anti-foreclosure event at the Capital Hilton.

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  Related Topix: Washington Post, Publishing, World News, Ethiopia, Africa, New York, Foreclosures

• Economic role reversal

  Yesterday | via The Telegraph 

  German broker Dirk Mueller at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. Washington, July 17: The global slowdown stemming in part from the deepening US financial crisis is hitting the world's richest nations the hardest ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Housing, New York, York (Pennsylvania State University System)

National Headlines

• Lawmaker: Extend mortgage protection for vets

  4 min ago | via MilitaryCity.com 

  Two projects aimee at protecting veterans with adjustable rate mortgages and adjustable hybrid rate mortgages could be extended past the end of this year if Rep.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Life, Veteran Affairs, US Politics, Ginny Brown-Waite, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Foreclosures

• Debt consolidation loans to manage debts easily and intelligently

  2 hrs ago | via The Capital Letter 

  The main reason for such a situation is the high credit card bills, loans, and mortgages, etc.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage

• Adverse Credit Remortgage - Refinance Easily

  3 hrs ago | via The Capital Letter 

  This is done mainly to get a new mortgage for a lower rate of interest from a different lender for a better rate.

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

• Robert Shiller on Bubble Thinking

  13 min ago | via Bubble Meter 

  Many culprits have been fingered for the housing crisis we're in today: unscrupulous mortgage lenders, dishonest borrowers, underregulated financial institutions.

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  Related Topix: UC San Francisco, University of California System, Housing, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• House prices 'will keep falling'

  18 min ago | via BBC 

  House prices in the UK and the US are likely to fall for another two years, the chairman of one of the world's most powerful banks has warned.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home