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                | How to Determine if it's Time to Refinance 
                  (Palladium Times) read story
 (ARA) - Who 
                  wouldn't enjoy a break on their monthly mortgage payment? On 
                  the other hand, how can you be sure the timing is right to 
                  refinance ? Are the rates and the current mortgage market the 
                  best indicators?
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                | If You Have an Adjustable Rate Mortgage, Why 
                  You Need to Refinance Now (Southwest Daily News) read story
 (ARA) - When 
                  you signed up for that adjustable rate loan a few years back, 
                  it probably seemed like a deal too good to pass up. But fast 
                  forward to the present, and you're probably starting to get a 
                  little nervous.
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                | Choosing an Interest Only Mortgage Option 
                  (Argus Observer) read story
 (ARA) - 
                  There are so many types of mortgage programs available to home 
                  buyers that it can get difficult to keep them all separate. 
                  One of the latest types of programs that many people are 
                  taking advantage of is the Interest Only Mortgage 
option.
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                | MORTGAGES AND MORE: Putting a local 
                  perspective on the subprime mortgage crisis (Asheville 
                  Citizen-Times) read story
 Ever since 
                  we penned our recent column on the crisis in the subprime 
                  mortgage industry, we have been barraged with questions about 
                  possible implications for the real estate market in 
                Asheville.
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                | Subprime Mortgage Bust Forces Families From 
                  Homes (WCBS-TV New York) read story
 Many 
                  families would never have become homeowners if not for a kind 
                  of mortgage business called subprime lending. It long seemed 
                  like a winning proposition for all parties. Now the costs are 
                  becoming apparent — and they are very unsettling.
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                | Borrowers Feel Misled by Home Lenders (AP via 
                  Yahoo! Finance) read story
 A divorce 
                  led Daniel Peart to refinance his four-bedroom home with a 
                  subprime loan. Like many borrowers with spotty credit, the 
                  self-employed handyman said he agreed to a relatively high 
                  interest rate in exchange for two years of low, fixed 
                payments.
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                | Amid the subprime mortgage bust, a family 
                  finds a house of cards (The York Dispatch) read story
 THORNTON, 
                  Colo. -- The lights are still on inside Foreclosure No. 
                  A200642668 -- so while there's time, have a look around. 
                  Here's the living room, still covered in the worn blue shag 
                  Angela Sneary always intended to replace with the sheen of 
                  hardwood.
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                | Tactics to avoid mortgage default (The 
                  Courier News) read story
 Trouble 
                  begins with a slow-motion descent toward your first missed 
                  mortgage payment. It's a queasy feeling thousands of 
                  homeowners know too well as their houses slip away.
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                | Many borrowers felt misled by subprime 
                  industry's hard sell (The San Francisco Examiner) read story
 LOS ANGELES 
                  ( Map , News ) - A divorce led Daniel Peart to refinance his 
                  four-bedroom home with a subprime loan.
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                | Family finds mortgage a house of cards 
                  (Rockford Register Star) read story
 THORNTON, 
                  Colo. —The lights are still on inside Foreclosure No. 
                  A200642668 — so while there's time, have a look 
around.
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