Q: If the borrower has a prepayment penalty, can they still apply for new financing to stave off foreclosure without having to pay the prepayment penalty in full? My prepayment penalty expires November 2008 and the rate is adjusting upward every ...
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R Miller from Halifax, Canada writes: I have to applaud Dr. Ouellet's brave decision to allow competition into Canada's entirely overburdened, publically funded health-care system... Hopefully, this decision will solve some access problems... Dr ...
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Eight months after her condominium association filed to foreclose on her home, Sharon Williams found a way out. "I just kept working at it," said Williams, a Jamaican immigrant who worked for 10 years to save enough to make a down payment on a ...
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DEAR BRUCE: My mother is nearly 67 years old. She and my dad divorced 10 years ago, after 35 years of marriage. As she didn't work outside of the home for most of the marriage, she now collects a small Social Security payment each month. She also ...
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Buddy Yates sits at a dining room table awash in paperwork. The bills, late notices and letters represent his nearly yearlong quest to keep his family in the three-bedroom North Las Vegas tract home he bought two years ago. In December, when he could ...
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WASHINGTON -- The 110th Congress, whose term officially ends in January, hasn't passed any spending bills or attacked high gasoline prices. But it has used its powers to celebrate watermelons and to decree the origins of the word "baseball." Barring ...
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As Barack Obama and John McCain prepare to make their big announcements, common sense tells me I should be focusing on the veepstakes right now. Yet, while I can’t wait to hear about their exciting choices, I find myself more focused on whether my ...
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