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DAIRY PRODUCERS TURN TO GOFUNDME CAMPAIGNS TO SAVE THEIR FARMS Sep. 25, 2018 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports: Hurting but proud, Theresa Depies never imagined starting a GoFundMe campaign to help save her dairy farm. Yet hundreds of donations later, and blended with other help, she had raised $165,510 to keep Springbrook Organic Dairy from closing less than a week before a foreclosure auction.
Little more than two months before Hurricane Harvey slammed the Gulf Coast of Texas, Alberto CastaA eda let his home's flood insurance lapse. He had never filed a claim on the policy in 10 years and he needed the extra cash to expand his restaurant business.
For nearly a decade, a top housing regulator has restricted Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from trying to influence the raging debate over whether they should live or die. But despite those limits, a top Fannie Mae executive has done just that over the past few months, quietly meeting with people inside and outside President Donald Trump's administration, according to people familiar with the matter.
In the classic movie film, "Gone with the Wind," the owner of the Tara plantation admonished his daughter for remarking that she didn't care about her home. In a sharp rebuke, Gerald O-Hara declared that "land was the only thing worth living for, worth fighting fora worth dying for."
For the third time in less than two years, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that a chapter 7 debtor who does not reaffirm secured debt or redeem the property must surrender the property. In re Woide , No.
This month marks the tenth anniversary of the $29 billion US government-backed bailout of Bear Stearns. The collapse of this giant investment bank in March 2008, under the weight of its bad mortgage-linked bets, marked the beginning of the global financial crisis.
Five months after Hurricane Harvey damaged thousands of houses in Te... . Jacob Lerma looks up at the mold growing on the ceiling of his home, which was damaged by floodwaters from Hurricane Harvey, Monday, Jan. 22, 2018, in Friendswood, Texas.
Black Knight's First Look at September 2017 Mortgage Data: Hurricanes Irma and Harvey Drive Surge in Past-Due Mortgages Nationally, the number of non-current mortgages jumped by 214,000 , driven primarily by fallout from Hurricanes Harvey and Irma FEMA-declared hurricane disaster areas accounted for the bulk of the increases; non-current inventory rose by 84,000 in Irma disaster areas and 52,000 in those related to Harvey Prior to the hurricanes, Texas and Florida ranked 20th and 22nd among states by non-current mortgage rates; after the storms, they now rank 3rd and 5th respectively Primarily as a result of hurricane impact, September saw the first annual rise in mortgage delinquencies since July 2010 Monthly foreclosure starts were at their lowest in more than 17 years, with starts down as much as 90 percent in areas covered by post-hurricane foreclosure action moratoria JACKSONVILLE, ... (more)
Backers of the treaty argue that without renegotiation of NAFTA, the forecast growth of U.S. liquefied gas to Mexico would be compromised. Mexico isn't buying our gas because of NAFTA, but due to the proximity and reliability of our gas supply.
A high-pressure city gas line recently discovered underneath a new home has the city considering a change to its inspection process to avoid another dangerous situation. A high-pressure city gas line recently discovered underneath a new home has the city considering a change to its inspection process to avoid another dangerous situation.
In the 53 metro areas surveyed, total sales were up 4.5 percent over January 2016, which was previously the January with the most sales. The median sales price of $208,500 was up 4.3 percent and marked the 10th consecutive month of year-over-year price increases.
"The Lego Batman Movie" executive producer was confirmed in the United States Senate 53-47, with Democrat Joe Manchin crossing party lines to vote with Republicans In a mostly party line vote, former Goldman Sachs executive Steven Mnuchin has been confirmed in the United States Senate as the Trump administration's new Treasury Secretary. Mnuchin was confirmed by a vote of 53-47, with nearly every Democrat voting against him.
Supporters of Puzder are launching a campaign ... . FILE - In this Jan. 19, 2017 file photo, Treasury Secretary-designate Steven Mnuchin testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Finance Committee.
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Sen. Orrin Hatch says no, that the man nominated by President Donald Trump to be treasury secretary told the truth when he asserted that his former company, OneWest, had not engaged in the practice of “robo-signing” mortgage documents. That's despite dozens of court cases uncovered by The Dispatch that showed OneWest officials' robo-signatures, along with sworn testimony from one of his vice presidents describing how she did it.
As a member of the professional tax community, my interest in the goings on over at the Treasury Department is a bit more keen than that of most Americans. And as an American expatriate, I am impacted financially in ways which leave my stateside countrymen and -women largely unscathed .
The vote will now take place on Tuesday morning, when the committee already was scheduled to convene for a vote on the nomination of Tom Price to be the next secretary of Health and Human Services.  Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said the vote was postponed so members could attend a candelight vigil planned for tonight to protest President Donald Trump's executive order banning refugees and foreign nationals from seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the United States. The delay comes one day after The Dispatch published a story reporting that despite his denials, OneWest, the company he once served as chief executive officer, repeatedly used "robo-signing."
In U.S. ex rel. Advocates for Basic Legal Equality, Inc. v. U.S. Bank , 816 F.3d 428 , the Sixth Circuit affirmed the dismissal of a False Claims Act suit against U.S. Bank based on the FCA's public disclosure bar.
Steven Mnuchin, President-elect Donald Trump's pick for Treasury secretary, faced tough questioning at his confirmation hearing Thursday, as members of the Senate Finance Committee grilled him on his role in IndyMac, the failed bank that was seized by the U.S. government, and his stance on sanctions. "In the press, it has been said that I ran a foreclosure machine," Mnuchin said at the start of his hearing.
Donald Trump 's pick to lead the Treasury Department, Stephen Mnuchin , built his reputation and his fortune as a savvy Wall Street investor. But one of those investments has put him in the crosshairs of Democrats as he heads into his confirmation hearing Thursday: sub-prime mortgage lender IndyMac bank.