Foreclosure Seminars and Free Help
$13.6 million Coming to Boston in Foreclosure Aid
Boston will get $13.6 million in the second round of Neighborhood Stabilization Program funding to assist the city’s foreclosure prevention and reclamation efforts. The grant will allow the Department of Neighborhood Development to support redevelopment of up to 275 foreclosed homes in Dorchester, East Boston, Roxbury, Hyde Park and Mattapan. Buyers of foreclosed properties in [...]
Massachusetts Foreclosures Invalid?
Richard D. Vetstein, today, he explains a legal case regarding foreclosure: In late March of this year in the case of U.S. Bank v. Ibanez, Massachusetts Land Court Judge Keith C. Long issued one of the most controversial rulings in recent years which has called into question hundreds if not thousands of foreclosure titles across [...]
Boston Massachusetts Launches Foreclosure Prevention Program
The City of Boston will spend roughly $18 million to help homeowners avoid foreclosure and bring new buyers into the market in a program announced Wednesday by Mayor Thomas M. Menino. The program, called the Homeownership Stabilization Campaign, is a 12-month initiative to aid neighborhoods hardest hit by the foreclosure crisis. The two-part program will [...]
Marshfield Massachusetts Foreclosure Seminar Wrapup
Though he came too late to see any of the speakers’ presentations, much of Monday’s foreclosure prevention seminar at Marshfield Town Hall was familiar to Marshfield resident Jim Nielsen. And not only because he had been to a similar seminar months earlier. Many of the issues and obstacles discussed by the nights’ presenters were familiar [...]
Massachusetts Foreclosure Prevention Seminar in Marshfield
State Rep. Jim Cantwell, as well as foreclosure prevention counselors from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development will host a free program to assist residents who are being threatened with foreclosure at 6 p.m., on Monday, July 27, at Marshfield Town Hall, 870 Moraine St. The “Foreclosure Prevention Seminar,” the second program in a [...]
Facing Foreclosure in Massachusetts? You Have Options!
We are facing an unprecedented rise in foreclosures in the United States that threatens our financial security and the stability of our communities. Today, every homeowner is acutely aware of the rapid decline in property values. The real estate euphoria that took place during the “boom” years at the beginning of this decade has vanished. [...]
Don’t Be a Foreclosure Scam Victim
It is bad enough to be the target of a foreclosure from a legitimate lender. How much worse to be the target of a scam seeking to steal what little you have while posing as your rescuer. So be warned: Foreclosure rescue scams are on the rise, taking thousands of dollars from desperate mortgage [...]
200,000 Facing Foreclosure in Massachusetts to be Helped
WBUR reports Hundreds of thousands of Massachusetts homeowners might be able to stay in their homes or pay less for their mortgages under a packaged outlined today by President Barack Obama. The president wants $75 billion to go to homeowners who are behind on their mortgages. But his plan would also lower payments for people [...]
“How to Purchase a Foreclosed Property” Seminar in Boston
The City of Boston is hosting a seminar entitled “How to Purchase a Foreclosed Property” on Tuesday February 3, 2009 beginning at 6pm at the Boston Home Center. This seminar will be the first of many seminars offered by the City on this topic. Further details are listed below. When Tuesday, February 3, 2009, 6 – 8pm [...]