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MSM seems to be doing a better job of finding human faces to illustrate the personal cost of the financial crisis. Here's a poignant one from The Mercury News. Consider adding your own.[q url="http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_10701409?nclick_check=1"]MANTECA — Dave Cantrell considered loading the U-Haul in the middle of the night and leaving while his neighbors were asleep.

MSM seems to be doing a better job of finding human faces to illustrate the personal cost of the financial crisis. Here's a poignant one from The Mercury News. Consider adding your own."MANTECA — Dave Cantrell... read more

SUNNYVALE, Calif. — According to the Remodelormove.com fall 2008 Remodeling Sentiment Report, an online publication of ABCD Publishing LLC, the amount of equity homeowners have is influencing their remodeling plans.

The Year of Foreclosure Prevention Flops Looking back over the last year, I can’t help but notice the ridiculous amount of clever names used by our government and other consumer advocates in relation to homeowner foreclosure assistance and relief.

Earthquake insurance is a form of property insurance that pays the policyholder in the event of an earthquake that causes damage to the property. Most ordinary homeowners insurance policies do not cover earthquake damage.

When some of the biggest investment firms declared bankruptcy last month, it resulted into widespread panic in the entire financial industry. In order to prevent the nation from falling into a recession, the... read more

It is time for another installment of E-Mail Funnies! You know, those ‘occasionally’ (very ‘occasionally’) gut-busting funny letters you see forwarded to 10.3 million email addresses and complete with 47 sets of headers by the time it gets into your mailbox. Sometimes they are made all the more funny simply by being completely true.

Despite a decline in the number of mortgage loan defaults issued to California homeowners, the number of scheduled foreclosure auction sales continued to rise in July. (BAC) Source:Foreclosures: auction sales increase; notices of default dip (Sacramento Business Journal)

Ed McMahon, Johnny Carson’s sidekick on “The Tonight Show” for three decades, may lose his home to foreclosure. Ed’s home has been up for sale for two years. A default notice for $643,596 was filed against the 85-year- old McMahon by ReconTrust Co., a unit of Countrywide Financial Corp., the biggest U.S.

Welcome to the final post in the series discussing the consequences of rent control. Thank you to the subscribers who have patiently awaited each new post. I hope everyone found it enlightening. If you haven’t read the entire series, you can catch up with these links: Part One: Microeconomics Lesson