Unable to sell his parents’ ocean-front timeshare for the past year, David Suder became so fed up he offered to give it away. They paid $8,000 for the Orange County, Calif. unit a decade ago, but since there are no willing buyers, and his 81-year-old mother, now a widow, …
Chicago-area real estate mavens Baird & Warner listed the three-level Highland Park, Ill., residence on Wednesday, so I'm trying to move fast.
President Obama on Friday proposed to sweeten a deal from Washington to entice banks to modify payments, lower loan principal, and expand eligibility in order to help more of the 11 million American families sinking under their mortgages.
Among the tactics: Challenging the bank's actions, waiting to file paperwork right up until the deadline, requesting the lender dig up original paperwork or, in some extreme cases, declaring bankruptcy. Nationwide, the average time it takes to process a foreclosure -- from the …
Marine Scott Wood died four weeks ago after suffering injuries during combat in Iraq. Before his burial, his wife dressed him in two uniforms. On the outside, Scott wore his military dress blues. Underneath, he wore the blue No.
A mother living in Detroit has traded in her four-bedroom home for a 2006 minivan.
Billionaire Warren Buffett urged lawmakers to raise taxes on the country's super-rich to help cut the budget deficit, saying such a move will not hurt investments. "My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress.
A Texas man took advantage of a little-known provision in state law and now has a whole neighborhood mad at him. Kenneth Robinson, who many are looking at as either a hero or squatter, recently landed an abandoned home worth $300,000 for $16.00.
An Ohio man says he bulldozed his $350,000 home to keep a bank from foreclosing on it.
The 17-room house next door to his home in a ritzy neighborhood on the city's south side is on the market. It doesn't have a price tag yet, but the listing agent expects the "Obama factor" to play a role.
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