Freddie Mac warns of bogus landlords renting out foreclosed homes

Freddie Mac warns of bogus landlords renting out foreclosed homes
The fraud promoters sometimes change the locks on the front door, remove the lockbox installed by the real estate agent marketing the house for Freddie Mac and tell prospects: Oh, and don't worry about that real estate sign in the front yard offering …
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Fortunes based on casinos, real estate, energy help fuel contributions to
Huge-dollar donors are often invited to state dinners at the White House and other events with the president. They also may be questioned to weigh in on public policy, especially if it affects their own financial interests. And the ranks of ambassadors …
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Sternlicht Hedges Bets as Buying Tops Renting: Mortgages

Sternlicht Hedges Bets as Buying Tops Renting: Mortgages
Barry Sternlicht, the Starwood Capital Group LLC founder who got his start buying distressed apartments in the early 1990s during the savings-and-loan crisis, is hedging his bets on apartments as a recovering homebuying market limits rent and occupancy …
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China Bankrolling Chavez's Re-Election Bid With Oil Loans
In a sign of how China wins twice from lending to Venezuela, much of the construction is being done by Chinese companies. Flores's apartment is one of 5,360 units being built on a plot of land two miles outside the state capital in Barinas by Citic …
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Mesa forgives interest on loan for senior apartment complex
21, 2012 09:08 AM The Republic | azcentral.com. Mesa is forgiving nearly half a million dollars worth of interest on an ancient loan that helped establish one of Arizona's premier senior apartment complexes. The City Council made that unanimous choice …
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