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  • There Is Help For Homeowners
    By: Lisa Loyd | - With so many people facing the terrible tragedy that is foreclosure, there are many programs popping up all over the place, promising to be the help that the homeowners have been wishing for all along. The problem with this is that not all of these programs can actually give help for homeowners. Foreclosure help is real but not every company out there claiming to be the one true source for such help is going to be the right answer.

    Whether you require assistance for yourself or for ...

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  • How I Saved A Widow's Home
    By: William Dorich | - Job loss, Foreclosure, Depression... or just bad timing, let's face it, these are difficult times. This article is intended to share my 17 years of real estate experience and to help enlighten my readers on how to save your home, protect your credit and fend off the fraudulent foreclosure scam artists. Currently there are 6,600 foreclosures per day in the United States. Over 3 million homeowners are in foreclosure with 4 million more headed in that direction, so listen up!. A 'Default Notice' f ...
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  • Avoiding Mortgage Rescue Scams
    By: Jim Olenbush | - One of the unfortunate realities of our current economic condition is the fact that it lends itself well to con artists who are looking to take advantage of innocent people who are in desperate times. The reality is that con artists prey upon people who have fallen upon hard times, such as those who are having difficulty keeping up with their mortgage payments. As a result, the number of mortgage scams has seen a significant rise over the past several months. Therefore, in order to keep yourself ...
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  • Qualify For Home Loan Modification And Say Goodbye To Financial Burden
    By: Bruce E. Nelson | -

    Home loan modification is the best option for the homeowners that are struggling through the repayment burden of their home mortgage loan. In this crucial period of financial crisis where people are finding it difficult to cope up with their daily requirements and meet the basic demands of their families, the burden of non-repayment and threat of foreclosure has left them sleepless and extremely stressed. But now its time to look around as the present government has worked out a fe ...

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  • Loan Modification Help - Choose The Right Company
    By: Bruce E. Nelson | -

    Loan modification is actually a permanent and affordable change made in the borrower's existing home loan so that he is able to pay off his loan comfortably. If you want to know how to qualify or get along with the process, you can take assistance from various companies or attorneys that are there for loan modification help for consumers. In order to verify whether you are eligible or not, you will be asked some questions regarding your income and expenditure and will be asked to s ...

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  • Mortgage Frauds Rampant In Florida
    By: Rob Thomson | - When the financial bubble burst, many peoples lives went spinning out of control. Unfamiliar with the fallout they would be facing, homeowners were scrambling for information. Unfortunately, the unscrupulous scammers were just starting to gear up their machines to reel in the catch.

    The FBI defines mortgage fraud as "any material misstatement, misrepresentation or omission relied upon by an underwriter or lender to fund, purchase or insure a loan", and there is a plethora of ...

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  • How To Avoid Mortgage Fraud
    By: Ki Gray | - News articles throughout the U.S. headline stories about indictments for mortgage fraud. Although you may think you could never be scammed, you should think again.

    Above-average, intelligent, middle-class professionals have been duped as well as the average Joe. Almost no one is beyond the long arm of a mortgage scammer's reach. You can, however, become better educated in the antics of fraudsters in order to thwart the most common scams used.

    Today, the most comm ...

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  • Should You Consider A Fixed Rate Reverse Mortgage?
    By: loa123 | - Buying a home is stressful under the best of circumstances, but for someone with less than perfect credit, it can seem impossible. Fortunately, there are lenders that are willing to take a chance on someone with less than perfect credit. Finding the perfect lender is more important than ever when your credit contains black marks, but there are ways to make yourself more attractive to lenders.

    By following these guidelines, you can show lenders that you are a trustworthy and reliabl ...

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  • Securing A Mortgage With Bad Credit
    By: loa123 | - Buying a home is stressful under the best of circumstances, but for someone with less than perfect credit, it can seem impossible. Fortunately, there are lenders that are willing to take a chance on someone with less than perfect credit. Finding the perfect lender is more important than ever when your credit contains black marks, but there are ways to make yourself more attractive to lenders.

    By following these guidelines, you can show lenders that you are a trustworthy and reliabl ...

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  • Is Self-help A Scam?
    By: Willie Horton | - I recently read an article on the BBC's International News website - Self Help Makes You Feel Worse. The article cited new Canadian university research and stated that people with "low self-esteem actually felt worse" as a result of what the article's author obviously considered to be practicing self-help. The article went on to explain that the University of New Brunswick and the University of Waterloo had measured research participants' moods after they had repeated "I am a lovable person". ...
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  • Online Mortgage Companies: Providing Affordable Home Loans
    By: Rachel@Jackson | - When the housing market crashed, people all over the United States were thrown into a state of crisis, many of them at risk of losing their homes, and many more thrown into foreclosure proceedings. For those of us who had their homes financed heavily, the crisis was indeed something terrible to deal with. Good has come of this tragic bubble burst, however, in the form of home prices that we have not seen for perhaps a decade.
    People who were not homeowners when the financial bubble starte ...

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  • Paying Your Mortgage Off By Earning Additional Income
    By: Michael Anthony | - If earning additional income online was so easy that you could be paying your mortgage off just by using that extra income, everyone would be doing it right? Wrong. You have probably heard claims of just how easy it is to earn additional income online and make easy money by never leaving your house. But odds are (and rightfully so) you ignored those claims and advertisements thinking they were just too good to be true (because many of them are!). But just think for a second how great it would be ...
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  • 10 Tips For Mortgage And Foreclosure Help
    By: Adam Whazzer | - Mortgage and foreclosure help is available and theres practically nothing more aggravating and more heart breaking than the thought of losing your home since you can no longer keep up with your mortgage payments. One out of seven of homeowners in the United States are living with this agony,the sad part is many already think its too late and end up losing their home since the did not get the mortgage help that could have stopped the foreclosure.

    Most of the time however that ...

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  • Surviving The Mortgage Crisis
    By: David Nalin | - Believed by many to be the root cause of the current economic downturn, the sub-prime mortgage crisis is of concern to many people, not only those who actually took out sub-prime mortgages but also people whose financial securities were affected by the hit the banks took when the sub-prime mortgage bubble burst. In response to all the problems cause by the crisis several government programs have been started to help people to stay in their homes and deal with deflated housing prices that domin ...
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  • Is Foreclosure Real Estate A Scam?
    By: Joseph Smith | -

    The excellent news is that foreclosure properties are a completely legal and legitimate way to buy real estate. In fact, some of the most successful investors in the world regularly invest in foreclosed properties, because they know that these properties are an amazing purchase and an outstanding value. Many millionaires have made their fortunes with foreclosure real estate. Even average people have saved substantially on a home purchase by buying foreclosures.

    Foreclosure ...

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  • Loan Modification - Can I Qualify?
    By: Rey Berona | - What is a Loan Modification? That is where you and your lender agree to modify one or more of the terms of your home loan. The goal of a Loan Modification is to help you keep your home and to give you a real, meaningful, sustainable, and long-term adjustment to your current home loan that works for your financial situation.

    Do any of these situations apply to you?

    * Are you behind on your Mortgage?

    * Going Through a Financial Hardship?

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  • Mortgage Modification News And Alerts
    By: pompapah | - *The Buzz:

    Hard times always bring out the scammers, and today is no exception. According to the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), a multi-agency crackdown has targeted real estate scams and frauds, as well as bolstered state and federal action and efforts to protect homeowners. An online survey by the FTC found 71 distinct companies running suspicious ads, and a US Treasury committee found nearly 180,000 fraudulent mortgage reports. The FBI is currently investi ...

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  • Before Applying For A Loan Modification
    By: Shellaine Enfesta | - Some homewoners now are looking at modifying their loans. Locking into a fixed-rate mortgage can insure your payments stay the same. Are the rates and the current mortgage market the best indicators? You can use the value in your home for fiscal gain. On the other hand, how can you be sure that the timing is right to refinance?

    Banks will not modify your mortgage if you do not have a valid reason. your mortgage must have been initiated before January 1, 2009; Your total mortgage m ...

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  • Which Loan Modification Company Is Right For Me?
    By: Bridget Toomey | - With foreclosures on the rise month after month, a lot of families who are struggling to keep up with their mortgage fear that their house will be next to receive a notice from the bank. By now, almost all families and homeowners know that getting a home loan modification is one of the best and most secure options for saving their home. But the bigger question that has been worrying homeowners of late is that of choosing the right loan modification company to modify their existing mortgage.

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  • Patriotic Refinancing : A Cure To The Financial Crisis?
    By: Jill Black | - Offering a silver lining to the cloudy economy, President Obama encouraged Americans to take advantage of the lowest mortgage rates on record by refinancing their homes. According to the Associated Press, Obama said in a recent press conference, "The main message we want to send today is there are 7 to 9 million people across the country who right now could be taking advantage of lower mortgage rates."

    With Americans who had recently refinanced their homes by his side, Obama enc ...

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  • Different Types Of Mortgage Frauds
    By: William | - Any type of trickery or deception (fake information, double-dealing, maneuvering) employed while requesting for a loan, goes down as mortgage fraud and is liable to be punished by law. Lately, these mortgage frauds have been so frequent that many experts now blame mortgage frauds (along with the negligence on part of lenders) for an increased number of foreclosures, which consequently led to present economic crisis. Many investigations and research studies have confirmed the fact that a huge num ...
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  • Beware Of Scam Artists In A Foreclosure
    By: William Dorich | - In every disaster there are those who look for opportunities to take advantage of the vulnerable and the mortgage crisis is no exception, don't be victimized twice.

    When you are facing foreclosure and looking for help to avoid losing your home, you need to be careful. There are many corrupt individuals just waiting to pounce upon you and take advantage of your misfortune. They advertise themselves as so called foreclosure rescuers or experts. Before you realize it, they will acq ...

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  • Mortgage Payment Plan
    By: sakvoyaj | - New and revolutionary mortgage payment discoveries explain how Consumers in Canada, the United States, the UK, Australia and the Commonwealth, give away huge amounts of money, freely every week or month with each mortgage payment. In fact this is true around the world for almost all Borrowers. We pay our mortgages and loans on terms dictated by the Lender without the expertise of a new wave of professionals who specialize in turning debt and mortgage payments to the financial advantage of the Co ...
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  • What Mortgage Modification Company Is The Best?
    By: Lindsy Emery | - Before wondering what mortgage modification company is the best, think about either doing it yourself or receiving consultation from a mortgage modification specialist under the FHA. Among the few legitimate companies out there, there are hundreds of scammers posing as modification companies looking to trick you out of your hard earned money.

    Relying on a FHA representative or on your own means is, in general, safer than choosing a company. But if you choose to do it yourself ther ...

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  • California Mortgage Borrowers: Beware Of Mortgage Modification And Foreclosure Scams
    By: Richard Heineman | - With nearly a quarter of a million California properties sold at trustee sale auction in 2008, California has one of the highest rates of mortgage loan default in the country. That's why California mortgage borrowers are such a big target for mortgage modification scams.

    What warning signs should you be on the lookout for?

    1. If someone guarantees they can stop your house from going into foreclosure no matter what, it's most likely a scam. No legitimate company or i ...

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  • Mortgage Modification Advice - 3 Essential Tips For Mortgage Modification
    By: Lindsy Emery | - There are many companies that come out of the wood work every time a time of disaster or peril approaches the masses. Even though scam companies pop up everywhere doe not necessarily mean there are not companies that will do the same job properly for less and often times more money.

    With the mortgage modification process many companies are willing to charge $3000 for services, but with little guarantee or assurance that the job will be done quickly and to its fullest extent. Many ...

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  • Many Are Qualified For Mortgage Loan Modification Assistance And Don't Even Know
    By: Walter Sigmore | - Most Americans are going through hard financial times, and homeowners are going through the worst financial hardship of all. Millions of homeowners are on the brink of foreclosure because they are unable to afford their monthly mortgage payments. More and more homeowners have to turn to their lenders for mortgage loan modification assistance in order to stay in their homes.

    Mortgage modification assistance is a reduction of monthly mortgage payments as dictated by the lender. The m ...

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  • How To Avoid Second Mortgage Home Loan Scams
    By: justinnarin | - Second mortgage home loan scams are especially prevalent during housing booms when equity is growing at a record pace and homeowners regularly refinance or take out home equity loans or home equity lines of credit. Although most reputable lenders return to reasonable loans when a housing boom ends, predatory lenders are still out there. If youre looking for a second mortgage, watch out for these scams.

    Popular Second Mortgage Home Loan Scams
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  • Senior Adults Value Professional Designations
    By: Lyn Link | - As a professional that has gone the extra mile to gain a professional designation, it is important to understand that senior clients will most likely not know what all those letters after your name mean.

    After all, a count of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) professional designation database indicates 89 different designations. These are just the number of designations for financial professionals, and according to FINRA, are not inclusive of all financially-rel ...

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  • Home Ownership Leaves Millions Broke. Discover How To Avoid The Scam Behind The Raw Deal
    By: Tom Graneau | - The push for home ownership in the U.S. is an obsession. More than the need to own a house and having more privacy and comfort, Americans are preoccupied with the idea of buying a house for wealth accumulation.

    This intense desire is a direct outcome of false advertising. Both the housing and mortgage industries have teamed up with our government to convince Americans that the way to financial prosperity is through home ownership.

    The well-orchestrated strategy has ...

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  • Mortgage Servicing Disclosures: Know Your Rights
    By: Thomas Shawn | - The volatile state of the mortgage market has led to many unexpected problems for homeowners. One problem that often arises is confusion when a homeowner's mortgage is sold. Although transfers are common, there are scams related to mortgage transfers that can catch even the most astute home owner off guard. So, what do you need to know if your home mortgage is transferred? Fortunately, the homeowner has many rights spelled out by the federal government that will protect them from problems when a ...
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  • Avoiding Home Loan Scams-00-698
    By: dr.anies | - With the thousands of people, each looking for the perfect home loan to fit each of their individual and financial needs, it might not be surprising how fraudsters have found their way and infiltrated the mortgage market. Nowadays, there are a number of mortgage scams and the number of people getting victimized has increased.

    Who are susceptible to home loan scams? Mortgage scam experts often effectively target those who are desperate to excite a mortgage by all means or those wh ...

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  • What Is Loan Modification And How It Can Help Homeowners
    By: yanni Raz | - We're all experiencing hard times. The economy went down the drain and most of us can't afford to pay our bills nor our homes. Credit card companies tightening up their regulations and so mortgage companies, so we can't fix an adjustable interest rate to get a more affordable mortgage payment. Also some of us are loosing their jobs on top of it, so how we can change it?

    First of all I personally think that we can change it by being strong and patient. Of course bein ...

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  • The Things You Need To Know About Aged Mortgage Data And Mortgage Lists
    By: Vikram Kumar | - One of the current strategies of lenders and mortgage is to obtain aged mortgage data. Aged mortgage data is a lead, which other brokers have not followed up on. Since this type of leads is old, its cost is relatively lower compared to fresh mortgage leads. You might think that aged leads do not work anymore since the individuals within the mortgage industry are always on the lookout for real time mortgage data. The truth is that newly detected leads do not work all the time because there are so ...
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  • Advantages And Disadvantages Of Applying For An Online Mortgage Loan
    By: F.J.Yanie | - Advantages and disadvantages of applying for an online mortgage loan

    The internet has made it possible for you to look for online mortgage loans while sitting in the comfort of your home. There are many sites like www.vuemortgageloan.com that offer you a variety of mortgage loans to choose from, to suit your budget and requirements.

    However there are both good and bad points of online mortgage loans. Of course, the greatest advantage it offers is that the process of ...

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  • House Buyers Encouraged To Take On Huge Loans By Corrupt Mortgage Brokers
    By: Phil Benson | - Thousands of homeowners face having their houses repossessed as the result of a home loan scam that could result in the rogue mortgage brokers behind it, being named and shamed.

    City watchdogs have exposed the bogus advisors who encouraged people wanting to buy a house to take out huge loans they could not afford. The Financial Services Authority (FSA) opened an investigation they called one of the biggest crackdowns in history after discovering a systematic abuse involving ...

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  • Reverse Mortgage Companies
    By: Miodrag Trajkovic | - A flexible term that allows senior citizen homeowners to raise funds that can be used for college schooling or traveling is offered by reverse mortgage companies. The reverse mortgage system is a perfect solution that increases retirement income without the hassles of taxes and credit problems for the borrowers.

    Reverse mortgage companies offers loan to homeowners that are senior citizens with homes fully paid or have a very minimal balance during the time of the application. The ...

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  • Mortgage Scam - Home Mortgage Fraud
    By: TheWicker | - Each mortgage scam contains some type of misstatement, misrepresentation, or omission relied upon by an underwriter or lender to fund, purchase or insure a loan. Mortgage scam is easily practiced particularly where mortgage industry professionals are involved. The true level of mortgage scam is largely unknown because a significant portion of the mortgage industry is void of any mandatory fraud reporting and in addition, mortgage fraud in the secondary market is often under reported. Based on va ...
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  • How To Identify A Mortgage Refinancing Loan Scam
    By: Moses Wright | - The current real estate sector is seeing an upswing and this in turn has effects on other sectors. The market for loans is expanding rapidly in order to take advantage of the situation. With the current development, different strategies have been developed to take advantage of opportunities.

    In order to cope with the changing trends, the mortgage refinancing companies penetrate the market by all means. Mortgage refinancing scams also develop in parallel to the above strategies. ...

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  • Mortgage Default Assistance - Announces More Loan Modifications To Stop Foreclosure
    By: Jayden Adams | - Mortgage Default Assistance works for homeowners who are determined to stop foreclosure on their homes, by working out a plan with the different parties involved, such as the lender and attorneys.

    Mortgage Default Assistance lives by the philosophy that people are basically good, but sometimes need a little help. Their motto is, we provide certainty during uncertain times. The reason for this is that when you are going through a foreclosure, getting an actual person to hel ...

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  • Your First Mortgage - Know The Facts For Buying Your First Home
    By: Grant Eckert | - Buying a first home can be scary while obtaining a first mortgage can be even scarier. During the decision making process on the way to owning a home, one has to consider the price of the home as well as the possible monthly costs of mortgage payments. These concerns are only scraping the surface of what has to be considered when getting a first mortgage. Getting a mortgage is not a task anyone should dive into uninformed.

    A good strategy to begin with is to ask the financial advi ...

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  • The Newest, Latest, Greatest, Fastest, Cheapest, Most Revolutionary Mortgage
    By: Ed Lathrop | - There's a new kind of mortgage, and it's taking the refinance world by storm. The promoters of this new kind of loan claim that you can pay it off in full in eight years without changing your budget at all! This sounds like it would be ideal for any homeowner. Let's take a look at this mortgage and see if we can figure out if it is really all its cracked up to be.

    This new kind of mortgage is commonly referred to by many different names, but because its purpose is to accelerat ...

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  • Less Than 1% Of Identity Thieves Are ProsecutedÃ"'¦what Are The Chances Of Beating A Ring Of Scam
    By: Dale Rogers | - As Brian Hansen demonstrated with one of the tracked cards, the card was gone in seconds and major purchases were being made all over the world within minutes. Cards became maxed out quickly. Billing cycles being what they are, by the time a cardholder's statement rolls in it's too late. Since no card was stolen, the arm wrestling begins with the card issuer of the liability on the charges. As the story unfolds Brian Hansen traces the femme fatal to Nigerian Internet Cafes where the countries ...
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  • How Safe Is An Online Mortgage?
    By: Gerald Mason | - These days there is very little that you can't do on the internet.

    Many people are beginning to use the internet for financial transactions that have traditionally only been conducted in person.

    You can open a checking account online, invest in stocks online, apply for credit cards online, and even get approved for an auto loan online.

    A question does arise though:

    How safe is it to apply for an online mortgage?

    Can you t ...

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  • The Biweekly Mortgage Scam
    By: Ed Lathrop | - One of the popular ways to save money on mortgages is to use what is known as the biweekly mortgage payment plan. With the biweekly mortgage payment plan the borrower makes payments on his mortgage every two weeks, instead of once a month. The biweekly payment is one-half of the monthly payment. So, if you converted from a monthly plan to the biweekly plan and you had been paying $2,000 a month for your principal and interest, you would now be paying $1,000 every two weeks. There is no doubt ...
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  • How To Avoid Mortgage Scams
    By: Home Loan Center Editorial Staff | - With record numbers of individuals seeking home loans these days, it's no surprise that scam artists have developed new ways to separate borrowers from their money. Mortgage scams are on the rise and typically target people who are overextended, have bad credit, or are in need of financial relief. These scams can cost a lot in fact, they can result in the loss of your home. Guard yourself against con artists with a little background on common mortgage scams:

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