Archive for August, 2007

Got this in my email box this morning and couldn’t help but giggle. I’ve written about depreciation in the housing market, job layoffs, people being stuck in houses they can’t afford, facing foreclosure, but at the end of the day…
Things could be worse!
If you had purchased $1000 of Nortel stock one year ago, it […]

Just yesterday, we covered an article titled, “Can Ya Spare A Job Brother?” which covered the job losses on a national level, but today, AZFamily is bringing it down to a more local level here in the Valley of the Sun.

Foreclosures, financial troubles and even layoffs; the housing bubble has begun to burst and now […]

Everyone has heard a foreclosure story recently, but the ones that stick out are the ones from people who normally could afford their homes and weren’t buying McMansions with $30,000 salaries.
Case in point, the below three victims this Foreclosure Friday:
A Great Life… And Then, Divorce

Life happened fast for Kerry and his wife.
In just five months […]

Not only here in Arizona, but nationally, we’ve seen mortgage companies and real-estate related companies start to go belly up or start to liquidate their workforce. First Magnus/Great Southwest went bankrupt and lost their banking license, lenders are now being sued for the housing bubble blowup, and even one of the largest lenders, Countrywide, has […]

For a while, most folks felt secure knowing they were over the 620-640 FICO mark with their credit score. This number of course being the rough borderline for subprime credit. And up until now, that was pretty much all you needed.
However, as the housing bubble bursts open, it gets everything wet. We’ve […]

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