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If you are tracking mortgage interest rates here is a useful trick that could help. It is not widely known among the public, but mortgage interest rates tend to track to the yield on the 10-year treasury note. When the yield on the 10-year T-Note goes up mortgage interest rates tend to go up, and vice versa. So if you are wondering about mortgage interest rate trends a quick and easy way to gauge things is to look at the trends on the 10-year treasury notes. See here for an example of the last three months of that 10-year T-Note. Mortgage interest rates on 30 year fixed loans tend to be between 1.5% and 2.25% higher than the yield on this 10-year note. (Although that can vary depending on other market factors). Still in terms of macro trends on rates this is a useful tool.

As of this week yields on the 10-year note have been dropping for more than a month so interest rates have generally followed suit.

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About one-fifth of the nation’s counties are scheduled to see lower loan limits on FHA mortgages beginning Oct. 1, according to an analysis the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

That’s when a temporary increase in FHA loan limits, enacted by Congress three years ago, is due to expire. About 670 of the nation’s more than 3,300 counties and county equivalents will be affected by the change, many of them in some of the nation’s most populated areas.   In some areas, the impact will be severe. Many counties will see a decline of more than $100,000 in the maximum loan amount available through an FHA mortgage to homebuyers there.  

East, west coasts most affected

  Much of the impact will be concentrated along the nation’s east and west coasts, with most California counties seeing loan limit reductions in excess of $100,000, and big drops also seen along the Northeast coast from Washington, D.C. to Maine, an Full article…

If you are a normal person you would like to save money when buying anything and even more so on a large purchase like real estate, buying East TX property under foreclosure can save you thousands of dollars or be your worst nightmare.

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When the economy took a dive for the worse, the foreclosed housing market really shot up. This has led to many opportunities for families to upgrade the size of their home, or simply invest in property. It can lead to saving enough money that you can upgrade the size of your home. The benefits can lead to numerous opportunities, so it is worth investigating. If it sounds great to you, then keep reading to learn more about purchasing a foreclosed home.

Foreclosures tend to be listed in the newspaper, online and in bulletin print outs. You can get this information through a trusted real estate agent, who will generally be happy to help you. They can show you the property and answer your questions. If you would rather find the homes on your own time, then do a research on the internet. You could also call the local banks to get an updated release of foreclosed homes.

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Foreclosure defense attorneys have described that process servers occasionally file false attestation in support of personal service in foreclosure matters.  Some homeowners are defending themselves expressing that mortgage lenders did not serve them properly.

Opposite to the maintain testimony of process server Robin Lucas-Peters in one South Florida foreclosure case, the homeowner was not assisted at all.  Died on August 4, 2010 “personal service” upon him on April 21, 2011 was simply not possible. 

“It’s equivalent to perjury,” said Andrew Dinnerstein, the attorney representing the family of the deceased.  “The system is

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