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i like that one too, except some bailouts can benefit the labor of the company and still screw over the investors and top brass, so i like the Swedish solution better than the great depression solution

One answer is most likely. Sadly, you are to small to matter. Most sites like this and most realtors work with big cities. Small town america does not exist.  Townships, Unincorporated areas do not have enough market volume to catch the eye of the big dogs.     Did you try looking by county instead of by town? You might find something that way.

Pyramid schemes and other scams, are designed with one thing in mind. to purposefully prey on others. There should be some type of regulation to those. The problems with all those fancy mortgage options is not that they were designed to prey on others per se, it was that people got greedy. Yes they had teaser rates but even with the tease rates they did not buy what would be affordable to them when the rate expired, they bought what would...

should these mortgage products be banned? The only "mortgage products" that should ever be banned are government-subsidies on mortgages. maybe, but is it legislating "good sense" to outlaw pyramid schemes; Nigerian and other scams? No, that's legislating fraud.  I wish more people could tell the difference.

You can claim the home and select different comps.   The details are in one of their videos, although at the moment the title escapes my brain.

Yes, very definitely . There have been several foreclosures in the neighborhood, primarily due to purchases being made by buyers who were not qualified for the loans. Some real estate agents and loan officers did their clients a disservice by stretching them beyond their means, then when the market began to fall it left them with properties with the value below what their loan balance was. So the only way out was to foreclose. The market is...

Do a search for recently sold in you zip code. Put in the parameters of your home, bd/ba, sq ft. etc. and see what comes up

Dear Sir/Madam, I checked about 50 recently sold home prices in 07920 area and found your estimated prices are always 10% higher than sold prices. Are you doing this on purpose? Thanks flywill

According to a June 2009 report by the Federal Housing Finance Agency, the typical housing downturn, from peak to valley, lasts 3¾ years historically speaking. However, the same report found that the typical housing upswing, from valley to peak, lasts 6½ years. Doug's Take: I found this very interesting and reflected on our latest downturn.  In Sacramento County, we statistically peaked in August 2005 @ a...