Housing loan help attracts new scams - Arizona Business Gazette

Faulty oversight and outright scams helped send the housing market into a tailspin. Efforts to bring the market back are attracting new scams. Loan modifications to fight foreclosures are the backbone of the federal housing plan announced in February ..., more 
and Where pools die, mosquito fish thrive - Baltimore Sun  LAS VEGAS, Nev. - In the arid Southwest, the backyard pool was the equivalent of the white picket fence: a sign the homeowners had achieved middle-class status. But as the foreclosure crisis emptied neighborhoods, the once-gleaming pools - caked with ..., more 
and Lies a new tool in foreclosure - Herald Tribune  Foreclosure lawyers want to take back property as fast as possible, and sometimes they do not let the facts slow them down. In case after case, lawyers representing banks are giving false statements in court about who owns mortgages, or whether the ..., more