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• Do New Mortgage Rules Make Borrowers Safer?

  Wednesday Jul 16 | via Realty Trac 

  You could hardly miss the headlines this week: More than 1,000 news outlets covered new rules from the Federal Reserve designed to "protect" America's mortgage borrowers.

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  Related Topix: Home, Foreclosures, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

Local Headlines

• Crash forces closure of Highway 30 near Tama

  Wednesday Jul 23 | via Quad-City Times 

  TAMA, Iowa - Several people have been injured in a crash of a bus and car on Highway 30.

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  Related Topix: Tama, IA, Cedar Rapids, IA, Cedar Rapids Metro, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Man charged with trying to hire killer for ex-wife

  Tuesday Jul 22 | via Quad-City Times 

  CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - A Hiawatha man has been charged with trying to hire someone to kill his ex-wife. Court records unsealed in U.S. District Court on Tuesday show that Daniel Dostart contacted a man in Idaho ...

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  Related Topix: Cedar Rapids, IA, Cedar Rapids Metro, Personal Finance, Mortgage

• Tax abatements not likely for flooded properties

  Thursday Jul 17 | via The Gazette 

  Tammy O'Connor of Cedar Rapids holds her hands over her face in stress after looking at the damage the flood caused to her and her husband's business, Wildside Tattoo, and the rental properties they own behind ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Johnson County, IA, Cedar Rapids, IA, Cedar Rapids Metro, Natural Disasters

• Cedar Rapids adds $3 million to business recovery fund

  Wednesday Jul 16 | via The Gazette 

  Federal grants from Uncle Sam aren't going to do it all. With that in mind, the City Council agreed tonight to contribute $3 million in city tax dollars to a local Job & Small Business Recovery Fund to help ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Cedar Rapids, IA, Cedar Rapids Metro, Small Business

• Floodwaters destroy home of former TRF residents

  Tuesday Jul 15 | via Thief River Falls Times & Northern Watch 

  Angela Friend never made it to Goodwill. Good thing she didn't. She needed the old sets of dishes and pans once her home was destroyed.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Natural Disasters, Flood

Regional Headlines

• Congressional housing action could aid Iowans

  Friday | via Waterloo Courier 

  A housing bill being considered in Congress could lend a hand to Iowans struggling to make mortgage payments, Sen.

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  Related Topix: US News, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Tom Harkin, US Politics, US Senate, Democrat, Iowa

• Winnebago Withstands Tough Economic Road

  Monday Jul 21 | via RV Business 

  Each morning, Winnebago Industries Inc. Chairman Bob Olson reviews key company, motorhome industry and U.S. economic statistics with his top managers.

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  Related Topix: Iowa, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Winnebago

• Leach proves prophetic about mortgage crisis

  Saturday Jul 19 | via Des Moines Register 

  From his office at Harvard, Jim Leach walked me through Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

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  Related Topix: Iowa, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• East-side residents fight mortgage crisis

  Thursday Jul 17 | via Http 

  Overgrown lawns, broken windows and tell-tale lock boxes are becoming more common sights in east Des Moines, where the number of vacated homes continues to increase as part of the nationwide mortgage crisis.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home, Iowa, Foreclosures

• Mortgage lending and housing market changes in Iowa

  Wednesday Jul 16 | via KWWL-TV Waterloo 

  For buyers and sellers, national economic and housing trends still apply in Iowa, just on a smaller scale.

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  Related Topix: Iowa, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage

National Headlines

• Congress passes mortgage aid bill

  5 min ago | via North County Journal 

  It took fears of a market collapse to push President George W. Bush and Congress to compromise on election-year mortgage help for struggling homeowners.

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  Related Topix: George Bush, Housing, Foreclosures, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Lawsuit dropped over SoCal congresswoman's home

  7 min ago | via Fox News 

  A man who paid $388,000 for a congresswoman's home dropped a lawsuit that claimed she got special treatment when a bank rescinded the foreclosure, it was reported Saturday.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Financial Services, Banking, Washington Mutual, Home, Mortgage, Housing

• Raise a glass of best Chateau Sucker

  7 min ago | via Irish Independent 

  Frankly, I've been getting tired of all the bad news. Every day brings new reports of job losses, price increases, industrial collapse, increasing debt, stock exchange plunges, pension erosion and general ...

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  Related Topix: Housing, Train Disaster, Opinion

• US shuts down two more banks

  9 min ago | via Times of Oman 

  WASHINGTON: The US Treasury has shut down two affiliated western banks as the impact of the US real estate crash rolls through the country's financial institutions.

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  Related Topix: Reno, NV, Financial Services, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• A healthy market

  3 hrs ago | via The Daily Advertiser 

  The home buying boom in Lafayette is leveling off, and with national stories of lending disasters and foreclosures tempering the market, local builders are trying to assure potential buyers.

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  Related Topix: Home Buying, Home, Baton Rouge, LA, Mortgage, Foreclosures, Lafayette, LA