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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

• Events of interest, in and around Rome

  May 23, 2008 | via Rome News - Tribune 

  SATURDAY Project WINGS, Wildlife Incentives for Nongame and Game Species, grant applications will be accepted May 15 through July 15.

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  Related Topix: Summerville, GA, Real Estate, Shannon, GA, Rome, GA, Floyd County, GA

• upon Closer Inspection

  Apr 18, 2008 | via Atlanta Journal-Constitution 

  After the north Atlanta ranch house listed by Realtor Joanne Mason went under contract, an inspector examined the property on the prospective buyers' behalf.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Atlanta Metro, Shannon, GA

• DLS Financial has local look, focus

  Mar 31, 2008 | via Rome News - Tribune 

  Firm keeps money at home in new building that ties into Broad Jeanne Dillard , Ernie Smith, Helen Hicks, Jerry Dempsey and Beverly Schrum in the conference room of DLS Financial.

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  Related Topix: Home Listing, Home, Real Estate, Floyd County, GA, Rome, GA

• Inside Roman Life

  Dec 28, 2007 | via Rome News - Tribune 

  Garden Club news and New Releases announced by the Rome-Floyd County library. 12/30/07 Email this story to a friend Club News Mountain View Garden Club The December 2007 Mountain View Garden Club meeting was ...

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  Related Topix: Floyd County, GA, Rome, GA, Home Listing, Home, Home Gardening, Life, Holidays, Christmas

• Miller to lead Keller Williams Realty Select Professionals in Rome

  Dec 14, 2007 | via Rome News - Tribune 

  Led by team leader and qualifying broker Steve Miller, the newest Keller Williams Realty market center will offer Rome area buyers and sellers more than 110 combined years of agent and staff experience.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Rome, GA, Real Estate, Floyd County, GA

Regional Headlines

• RealtyTrac: Georgia 8th in Q2 foreclosure rate, metro Atlanta 20th

  Monday Jul 21 | via Atlanta Business Chronicle 

  Georgia improved to the eighth-highest foreclosure rate in the second quarter, while metro Atlanta had the 20th-highest, according to RealtyTrac 's Second Quarter 2008 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report published ...

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  Related Topix: Georgia, Foreclosures

• TV Makeover Home In Foreclosure

  Thursday Jul 24 | via CBS 46 

  Every week the ABC reality show "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" gives families the chance of a lifetime to have their home completely redone and paid for by somebody else.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Reality TV, Entertainment, Television, Home Listing, Home, Georgia

• President Bush drops opposition to housing bill

  Wednesday Jul 23 | via The Atlanta Journal-Constitution 

  President Bush dropped his opposition Wednesday to a broad housing package aimed at bolstering the sagging economy, despite his objections to including $3.9 billion for neighborhoods hit hardest by ...

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  Related Topix: Georgia, George Bush, Foreclosures, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election

• Keep the down payment assistance program

  Tuesday Jul 22 | via Atlanta Journal-Constitution 

  Who's to blame for the subprime mortgage crisis sweeping the nation? Wall Street bankers who've overleveraged their books by billions of dollars? Or first-time home buyers who received gifts of a few thousand ...

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  Related Topix: Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Georgia

• Lesbian candidate advances to Georgia House runoff

  Friday Jul 18 | via Southern Voice 

  Keisha Waites made it to an Aug. 5 runoff after taking second in a crowded field for House District 61 while Kevin Clark lost his bid for state Senate District 2. Keisha Waites is one step closer to making ...

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  Related Topix: East Point, GA, Mortgage, Atlanta Metro, Georgia

National Headlines

• Affordable oasis near the sea

  2 min ago | via San Francisco Chronicle 

  Turning south onto Highway 1 from Skyline Boulevard, the road climbs to the top of a hill and then - like a rollercoaster after clanking its way slowly to its summit - plunges into Pacifica.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage

• U.S. Congress approves wide-ranging housing rescue bill,

  3 min ago | via VietNamNet 

  The U.S. Congress approved on Saturday a wide-ranging housing rescue bill that will offer up to 300 billion U.S. dollars in assistance to troubled mortgage giants and homeowners.

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  Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Christopher Dodd, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, George Bush, 2008 Presidential Election

• Reverse mortgage leaves borrower stunned and stuck

  4 min ago | via Las Vegas Review Journal 

  Realtor Dave Berard, left, explains the terms of a reverse mortgage to William Lancaster in Lancaster's east Las Vegas home on July 17.

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  Related Topix: Social Security, Personal Finance, Las Vegas, NV, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage

• Economy Class

  4 min ago | via Journal Gazette 

  Forget leading economic indicators, corporate quarterly earnings, record-low home equity, record-high mortgage defaults and all the rest of it.

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  Related Topix: Financial Markets, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Stuck in the middle: Renters swept up in wave of foreclosures

  4 min ago | via New Haven Register 

  Aurea Ortiz, a renter on Sedgewick Street in Bridgeport, is in danger of being evicted from her home because the building is being foreclosed.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Bridgeport, CT, Bridgeport Metro, New Haven Metro, New Haven Metro, New Haven, CT