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Mortgage Fraud

Jun 25, 2010
The US Attorney has recently indicted 123 Nevadans for mortgage fraud. That's nearly 10% of the 1,200 people indicted nationwide in the "Stolen Dreams" investigation. But there are plenty of other fraudsters in the real estate industry. We'll look at one house-flipping scam in Florida as well as talk with local experts who are working on mortgage and housing fraud.
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Short Sales and the Foreclosure Crisis

Apr 13, 2010
The various efforts to fix the real estate market have become an alphabet-soup of federal aid and programs. Just this week, the Obama administration announced new incentives to speed up so-called short sales - the selling of houses in depressed markets at the current price rather than waiting for home prices to improve. So who's eligible for the new program? Who's eligible for other programs? And how do they all work? And the big question - will any of it work to fix up the real estate market. We talk with local HUD chief Ken Lobene, a short-sale realtor and a legal aid attorney who's worked on foreclosure issues.
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The Street Where We Live

Jan 05, 2010
Neal Williams, local business owner Richard Cherchio, neighborhood activist Chris Leinberger, Visiting Fellow, Brookings Inst Lisa Morris, Deputy Dir of Neighborhood Svcs, City of LV ..
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Representative Marci Kaptur

Oct 29, 2009
The Ohio Congresswoman has been a trenchant critic of the financial system and she still insists that there has not been a full investigation of the mortgage crisis and its causes. We talk with her and find out what she wants to happen as Nevada continues to languish with the highest foreclosure rate in the nation.
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Renters' Rights

Oct 21, 2009
Some people have left their apartments or houses, gone to work and returned to find stickers on the windows and doors warning them to stay out. Others receive visits from seemingly official types who say they have 72 hours to vacate.
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NACA's Saving the Dream Tour

Oct 12, 2009
The Neighborhood Assistance Corporation was working all weekend on mortgage modifications. The event attracted homeowners from around the Southwest.
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Mortgage Modification

Oct 08, 2009
The Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America is finally bringing its "Save the Dream" tour to Las Vegas. We talk with NACA CEO Bruce Marks and then take a look at mortgage modification and what's worked and what hasn't with people who are working on modifying failed mortgages.
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Report by Adam Burke

Oct 01, 2009
Listen to producer Adam Burke's profile of Neal and Michelle Williams, who have been struggling in northwest Las Vegas to save their neighborhood.
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Hope at Home: Saving the Hood

Oct 01, 2009
In our continuing series "Hope at Home: Facing the Foreclosure Crisis," we look this week at what some neighborhoods are doing to prevent blight and decay as "For Sale" and "Foreclosure" signs proliferate in many areas of the valley. A neighborhood preservation expert from the city of North Las Vegas and the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department talk about what residents can do to protect their neighborhoods.
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Bobbi Giguere versus Wells Fargo

Sep 24, 2009
Producer Adam Burke shares his interview with a Phoenix woman who tells us about the day she got to interrogate a Wells Fargo executive about her foreclosure.
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Hope at Home: Talking with the Bank

Sep 24, 2009
In our continuing series, Hope at Home: Facing the Foreclosure Crisis, we look at a few of things that homeowners facing foreclosure can do to speak with their banks. We're joined by a woman who had the rare chance to interrogate a bank executive in court as well as a local bank representative.
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Homebuyer's Guilt

Sep 10, 2009
in our latest in our series, "Hope at Home: Facing the Mortgage Crisis," survivors of a disaster often feel guilty that they have survived. That feeling is striking buyers who are finding great deals in the wreckage of the Las Vegas housing market.
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Building Wealth in a Recession

Aug 27, 2009
Home ownership was once the great builder of wealth for most Americans. But where should we turn now that homes are so far under water? Las Vegas Valley home prices seem destined to stay flat even as housing elsewhere in the country expands.
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Hope at Home: What's Next

Aug 20, 2009
This week's continuing series, "Hope at Home: Facing the Foreclosure Crisis," we ask what's next. The Las Vegas economy has been in a recession for the past 18 months and some are saying it's time to "reboot" the valley's economy.
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Falling Home Prices

Aug 13, 2009
Then we talk with an economist whose work contradicts a lot of the conventional wisdom about the mortgage crisis. The teaser rates weren't much of a tease, the foreclosure crisis has been caused by falling home prices, not an inability to pay.
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Rethinking the Mortgage Crisis

Aug 13, 2009
There is a way to sell your house, even in this market. Guarantee the price won't fall.
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Business Schools and the Crash

Jul 27, 2009
The mortgage mess and the foreclosure crisis were created by some of the best and the brightest, who came from top business schools. Those graduate schools think of themselves as incubators of the next generation of financial and economic wisdom but Journalist Philip Delves Broughton found that two years at Harvard Business School was really a Faustian bargain - exactly the kind of deal that would create the overconfidence that nearly destroyed the financial system.
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Mortgage Licensing

Jul 16, 2009
The Nevada Legislature mandated licenses for foreclosure consultants and mortgage modification experts. The rules were finalized earlier this month and we talk with the top official in charge of the new licensing program to see what it takes to get a license and what borrowers should know about the new system.
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Mortgage Mediation

Jul 02, 2009
Nevada's new law on compulsory mediation came into effect July 1. Homeowners can now require banks to attend a mediation meeting if they receive a foreclosure notice.
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Mortgage Modification

Jul 02, 2009

The Obama Administration has a modified refinancing program. It will allow loans up to 125 percent of a home's value.

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Seniors and the Mortgage Crisis

Jun 25, 2009
Phyllis Hargrove, Operations Specialist for Nevada HUD Barry Gold, Director of Government Relations and Advocacy, AARP Nevada Steven Silberberg, Elder Law Attorney Most people assume that seniors don't need to worry about the foreclosure because they don't have mortgages. That's not necessarily true.
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Rethinking the American Dream

Jun 22, 2009
Author and Bloomberg News columnist John Wasik argues that the mortgage crisis is the least of our housing problems. The drive to build bigger and bigger homes across suburban America is unsustainable and we need to rethink the meaning of the American Dream if we are to keep it alive.
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Foreclosure and Public Health

Jun 16, 2009
The foreclosure crisis has meant that many of the 27,000 swimming pools across the valley have been abandoned. They soon become stagnant algae ponds that provide breeding grounds for mosquitos.
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The Next Wave: Who is at Risk?

May 08, 2009
Lesah Rosario, Mortgage Consultant, Neighborhood Assitance Corp of America Gail Burks, Pres and CEO, NV Fair Housing Ctr Kenneth LoBene, Dir, HUD John Restrepo, Principal, Restrepo Consulting Group Neil Schwartz, Broker/Salesperson, Coldwell Banker Premier Realty Spencer Judd, Mortgage and Real Estate Attorney, Albright, Stoddard, Warnick and Albright Law Firm Joe Ohayon, VP of Client and Community Relations, Wells Fargo Michael Courey, Mgr, Chase Home Ownership Ctr in Las Vegas Tracy Wallace, recently unemployed Ryan Kidd, recently unemployed Joe Ealy, maintenance worker, CCSD Christa Fells-Robinson Therese Gibson ..
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The Neighborhood Stabilization Program

May 07, 2009
Karen Somers, Neighborhood Outreach Mgr, City of NLV Daniel Kuntz, Affordable Housing Mgr, City of HN Tim Whitright, Neighborhood Dev Mgr, City of LV ..
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