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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

• Efforts are under way in Washington to curb the housing slump crisis.

  Tuesday Jul 8 | via WJRT 

  Efforts are under way in Washington to curb the housing slump crisis. The Federal Reserve Board announced it will vote Monday on a new set of rules designed to protect future home buyers from dubious mortgage ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Home Listing, Flushing, MI, Swartz Creek, MI, Genesee County, MI

• Judge adjusts bond for psychologist accused in stabbing

  Wednesday Jun 25 | via ABC12.com 

  A judge has adjusted the bond for a Genesee County psychologist accused of stabbing his mortgage broker on Christmas Eve.

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  Related Topix: Genesee County, MI, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Grand Blanc, MI

• FBI has indicted a former Grand Blanc Township man

  Thursday Jun 19 | via ABC12.com 

  The FBI has indicted a former Grand Blanc Township man. Kurt Heintz is accused of a mortgage fraud scheme totaling about $20 million.

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  Related Topix: Genesee County, MI, Grand Blanc, MI, US News, US Federal Bureau of Investigation, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Flint, Mich., housing market feels auto industry's pain

  Jun 16, 2008 | via USA Today 

  Flint, the birthplace of General Motors, is a shadow of its former self as a vibrant industrial town.

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  Related Topix: Genesee County, MI, Flint, MI, Flint Metro, Detroit Metro, Housing

• Post a comment

  Jun 14, 2008 | via Flint Township/Swartz Creek Advance 

  Mt. Morris Township fire Lt. Wes Prescott leads training at Station No. 2 as Josh Hogeland uses the 'Jaws of Life' on Wednesday May 15, 2008.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Mount Morris, MI, Foreclosures, Genesee County, MI

Regional Headlines

• Inflation takes hold in Europe

  9 hrs ago | via Detroit News 

  It took a few months. But the economic woes touched off by soaring oil prices and the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States are finally engulfing Europe.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Banking, Bank of America, Financial Services, Charlotte (University of North Carolina System), University of North Carolina System, Michigan

• University comes to Michigan's rescue

  Thursday | via Holland Sentinel 

  As job losses, foreclosures and other woes continue to batter Michigan, an unlikely savior has emerged from the halls of academia.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Michigan, Michigan Government, Ann Arbor (University of Michigan System)

• Big players in real estate now on the same team

  Thursday | via LivingstonDaily 

  Two of the biggest names in real estate in Livingston County have combined and created a new force in the market.

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  Related Topix: Livingston County, MI, Howell, MI, Real Estate, Brighton, MI, Michigan

• Announces Disaster Assistance for Michigan Storm Victims

  Tuesday Jul 15 | via HUD 

  U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Steve Preston today announced HUD will speed federal disaster assistance to 11 storm-ravaged counties in Michigan and provide support to homeowners and low-income ...

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

• An unconstitutional amendment

  Sunday Jul 13 | via LivingstonDaily 

  What happens when a constitutional amendment is so complicated that the amendment itself becomes unconstitutional? We might be about to find out.

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  Related Topix: Personal Finance, Mortgage, Michigan, Michigan Government, Opinion

National Headlines

• Robert Shiller on Bubble Thinking

  11 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'

  16 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

• Failures of big banks fan fears of Staten Islanders

  20 min ago | via Pennlive.com 

  Fannie Mae headquarters in Washington, D.C. The collapse of a major national bank and growing talk of government bailouts of other financial institutions on the brink have Staten Islanders wondering if their ...

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  Related Topix: Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Deposit, NY

• Suburbs, A Dream Too Real To Live?

  21 min ago | via The Ledger 

  Published: Saturday, July 19, 2008 at 6:01 a.m. Last Modified: Saturday, July 19, 2008 at 7:20 a.m. As the housing market implodes and financial institutions struggle, a difficult but necessary societal ...

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  Related Topix: Medicine, Alcoholism, Health, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Another sign

  21 min ago | via Brains and Eggs 

  "A taxpayer voting Barack Obama is like a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders." A number of drivers on Twin City Highway Thursday might have seen this message on the sign in front of Bob Costilow Realtors.

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  Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, African-American, Mandeville, LA, Home, Home Selling, Home Listing