From Foreclosure to the Cleaners
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When Idriis Bilaal, 77, got a foreclosure notice about a year ago, all he could think about was how he could save the home where he had been born, a run-down red-brick rowhouse in Northeast Washington.
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Business & money: Specialist teams to tackle illegal lending.
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When the housing market was booming, many rushed in to the residential real estate business. Now a growing number of agents are looking for other employment.
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Lenders hunting for delinquent homeowners are resorting to creative methods to track them down.
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It started with subprime mortgages. Now owners of McMansions are defaulting, and the effects of the housing bust are beginning to ripple through the economy.
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Troubled homeowners can get online advice to spot fraudulent rescuers.
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As mortgage defaults rise, more houses are being put up for auction -- and more people are seeing a chance to make big bucks. But there are risks
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Not everyone has suffered from the current housing slump. Exceptions include entrepreneurs with deep experience in real estate and those who have carved out a special niche.
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Whether you're a home seller, owner or buyer, by this point you've got to be feeling a little rattled. The bad news about the housing market seems never ending: Foreclosures have more than doubled over the past year.
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By Julie Fishman-Lapin, The Stamford Advocate, Conn.  Feb. 2--Growing up in Florida, Rodney Adkins often spent free time dismantling his family's television or radio, or even his mother's vacuum cleaner.
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THOUSANDS OF homeowners with poor credit are facing foreclosure because they can no longer afford to pay their high-interest loans. In the crack-up of the so-called subprime mortgage industry, these borrowers are the most visible participants. But they aren't the only ones who seemed not to understand what they were getting themselves into.
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From floating houses to city seals on the loose, Floridians salvage stories from debris.
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One of the pioneers of offshoring tries to cash in.
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The bloodbath in the residential mortgage market is attracting some creatures of a darker disposition.
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Corporate housing can be a boon for developers during a buildingâs transition from rental to condominium or for condominium investors facing a sluggish market.
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Cleanliness has long been next to godliness for the hygiene-conscious Japanese, but fortune-tellers are now advising those who want to succeed in life to start by scrubbing the smallest room.
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Foreclosures were once the turf of the  most aggressive investors, but these days ordinary home buyers  can hunt for fire-sale house prices on a wealth of Internet  sites.