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REOCertified® HOW TO RECEIVE REO LISTINGS! Increase your Income! Learning Best Practices for REOs & BPOs!  REOcertified® National Designation is being conducted in Tamarac 8-27, Lantana 8-28, Miami 8-30, @ Gold Coast School locations. Increase you INCOME, learn BPOs & REOs. Join us for this excit...

  REOcertified® and ShortSaleCertified® are being conducted in Dallas (09-10th & 11th) & San Antonio (09-13th & 14th), we conducted this two day event in Dallas earlier this year, and they asked, “When are we coming back”. Join us for this exciting and educational event. Presented by REO Institut...

  OPERATORS OF CALIFORNIA-BASED MORTGAGE MODIFICATION SCAM SENTENCED FOR CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT FRAUD       WASHINGTON, DC - The Office of the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (SIGTARP) and the United States Attorney for the Southern District of California Laura E. Du...

Ratings Agency Rethinks View of Home Prices By Brad Finkelstein  Fitch Ratings has switched to predicting gains in new home prices for 2012 instead of modest declines, due to "overt price increases and mix issues." The average single-family new home price should improve by 4.25% and the median sh...

American Dream of Homeownership – In Trouble By Lew Sichelman     That the American dream of homeownership lives on despite the worst housing recession in eight decades is a popular notion, backed by survey after survey of consumers who still believe that ownership is the path to economic salvati...

  CoreLogic: 23.7% of Mortgages are Underwater, Down from 25.2% By: Esther Cho While negative equity still continues to hinder the housing market’s recovery, CoreLogic reported Thursday that the share of underwater mortgages declined In the first quarter of 2012, the total number of underwater ho...

  FORMER TOP LOAN OFFICER AT FAILED FIRSTCITY BANK   PLEADS GUILTY TO BANK FRAUD   WASHINGTON, DC - The Office of the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (SIGTARP) and United States Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia Sally Quillian Yates today announced that...

  Veros Forecasts Select Struggling Markets to Start Recovering By: Esther Cho Certain regions that once dragged the housing market down are expected to start giving the industry a lift while national home values are expected to start leveling, according to forecasts from Veros Real Estate Soluti...

Lack of Distressed Properties Led to May's Drop in Existing Home Sales By: Esther Cho   The drop in existing home sales reported by the National Association of Realtors (NAR) Thursday likely stemmed from a lack of distressed properties on the market, according to IHS Global Insight. In May, exist...

Check out this link with testimonials for the REO Institute of Colorado's REO Institute® Nationial Designation. Testimonials @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9waRtut46o If you like this post, please like us on activerain, facebook. Thanks, James