Law Makes Debt Relief Harder for Homeowners
2173
Legislation pending in Congress could spur still more people to choose Chapter 13 to save their homes.
435777
Across the country, local governments are feeling a financial strain driven largely by the nationâs real estate downturn and some are considering higher taxes.
523363
Mortgage losses and legal fees weigh down the institutional money manager.
81074
U.S. bankruptcy filings have fallen to a 10-year low after a tough new federal law made it more difficult for Americans to seek protection from creditors.
109718
Like California a generation ago, the Sunshine State is moving toward providing relief for overburdened homeowners
584346
With prices falling, home sellers might have to accept lower prices than they had hoped for, while buyers might find it tougher to qualify for a mortgage.
604806
Homebuilder teeters on the edge of bankruptcy as bondholders circle like vultures awaiting its default.
82593
The Bush Administration's mortgage rate freeze sounds like a life raft for strapped homeowners, but it may do more harm than good
85446
The homeowners who signed these mortgages must be held accountable somehow ("State to refinance troubled mortgages," July 11). Yes, the mortgage companies may have taken advantage, but if the homeowners had hired an attorney or did their homework, there wouldn't be a problem. This is like rewarding stupidity.
662894
People who seek bankruptcy lose many of their assets to creditors, but not their Social Security benefits, their company pensions or their 401(k) plans, which are all shielded by law.
501540
Bankruptcy courts would be allowed to alter mortgages written by "predatory lenders" in moves that could save 600,000 Americans from foreclosure, according to the author of a bill introduced in the U.S. Representatives on Friday.
319506
As the U.S. mortgage crisis forces more properties into foreclosure, even renters are feeling the pain.
756109
Brooklynâs Foreclosure Prevention Project has been so inundated with calls from those in trouble with mortgage bills that it had to stop taking them.
587907
Consumers who cut it close by paying bills from their checking accounts a couple of days before depositing funds will be out of luck under a new law that takes effect Oct. 28.
668751
A decade of low-interest lending allowed U.S. consumers to run up debt. But with rates rising, they can no longer count on borrowing their way out of trouble
21006
The nation's housing industry is in a free fall from the subprime mortgage crisis. The budget of the Department of Housing and Urban Development could be facing big cuts. And the agency is still struggling to respond to a slew of natural disasters, including Hurricane Katrina.
359500
The schemes take various forms and often involve promises to distressed homeowners of cash upfront.