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Definición de términos de bienes raíces
Hoja informativa que presenta terminología de bienes raíces que le será útil si piensa comprar una casa. -
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Real Estate Terms You Should Know
A fact sheet that lists real estate terms that are helpful to know if you own or are thinking of buying you own home. -
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Questions and Answers About Home Equity Loan Fraud
A manual for community and consumer advocates working to educate senior, low income and minority home owners about the dangers of home equity loan fraud. Topics covered include home improvements, hiring a contractor, warning signs… -
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No pierda su casa (2006)
Un folleto que explica cómo un "préstamo sobre el valor líquido de la vivienda" le permite obtener dinero contra el valor líquido de su casa. Pero si no puede pagar los pagos del préstamo, puede… -
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Don’t Lose Your Home (2006)
A brochure that explains how a "home equity loan" allows you to borrow money against your home's equity. However, your home secures the loan; if you are unable to make the home equity loan payments,… -
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Before You Buy a Home (2006)
Checklist of items for homebuyers who have already found a home they wish to buy. Topics include checking neighborhoods, verifying building permits, using a home inspector, and considering all costs of homeownership. -
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Recursos de Asistencia en Caso de Desastres
Este folleto gratuito ha sido diseñado para ayudarle a usted a asistir a los propietarios de vivienda de su comunidad a acceder a beneficios y protecciones para que puedan evitar perder sus casas por incumplimiento… -
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Disaster Relief Resources
This free fact sheet is designed to help you assist homeowners in your community to access benefits and protections to help them save their homes from default and foreclosure. The resources listed in this fact… -
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Disaster Relief Resources (Vietnamese)
Bản cẩm nang miễn phí này giúp quý vị giúp người chủ gia cư trong cộng đồng của quý vị tìm được những lợi ích và sự bảo bệ giúp bảo toàn căn nhà tránh… -
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Temas De La Vida Real
La compra de una vivienda es un camino principal para alcanzar la seguridad financiera y ayuda a que las comunidades permanezcan estables. Esta publicación, disponible en español e inglés en el popular formato de historieta,… -
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True Life Stories
Homeownership is a primary path to achieving financial security, and homeownership helps communities remain stable. This publication, available in Spanish and English in the popular "novella" (comic book) style, addresses some of the key mortgage,… -
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Mortgage brokers’ sleight of hand
*The following op-ed, Mortgage brokers’ sleight of hand, written by Harvard Law School Professor Elizabeth Warren, was published in the Boston Globe on October 2, 2007. In the past five years, if you called a… -
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Spreading the [housing] misery
The nation’s foreclosure crisis is metastasizing, and communities are in harm’s way as property values and tax bases decline and crime increases. In the third quarter, there were 635,000 foreclosure filings, a 30 percent increase… -
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How not to prevent foreclosures
With foreclosures surging, the last thing the nation needs is another government-hosted meeting where mortgage lenders pledge once again to do their utmost to help distressed borrowers stay in their homes — and then go… -
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Wrong relief
Democrats and Republicans in the Senate have joined hands and are marching to rescue the U.S. housing market. Far be it from us to rain on this bipartisan parade, which would marshal such measures as… -
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Foreclosure politics
With foreclosures running at about 20,000 per week, at least 100,000 more families are likely to lose their homes before Congress passes a relief bill. And even then, the measure may fail to stanch the… -
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Cal-Neva Conference
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Show us the hope
Falling house prices are driving the collapse of the financial system. But the bailout bill, even the “sweetened” version that was approved by the Senate Wednesday night, does little to avert the defaults and foreclosures… -
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If the bailout doesn’t pass…
What if, after the House vote today, Americans learn that 3,000 banks will fail? That’s what happened during the last U.S. financial crisis—and today’s credit crisis is much greater than the thrift and banking debacle… -
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Buy a beach house when going bankrupt
Say an absentee landlord owns the house next to yours. Neither of you keep up your mortgage payments. If you both declare bankruptcy, chances are better that he would keep his place than you yours.… -
Vietnamese:
Keeping Your Home - Protect your investment (Vietnamese)
Những người có kế hoạch, ngân sách và dành dụm để thành công làm chủ một căn nhà sẽ có nhiều cơ hội tốt hơn để giữ được mái nhà của họ và gây dựng… -
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Successful Homeownership - Seminar Lesson Plan & Class Activities (English)
This PDF packet provides guidance for teachers and team leaders. The 20-page packet contains a detailed curriculum, classroom activities and take home worksheets. -
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Successful Homeownership - Class Activities (Spanish)
Este archivo en PDF contiene traducciones en español de las actividades para hacer en clase y los ejercicios para hacer en casa tomados del plan de enseñanza en inglés… -
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Cómo proteger su casa de una ejecución hipotecaria (2009)
La ejecución hipotecaria es el proceso legal que el prestamista hipotecario utiliza para quitarle su casa cuando usted se atrasa con las cuotas de su préstamo. Si usted corre el riesgo de una ejecución hipotecaria,… -
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Saving your home from foreclosure (2009) (Chinese)
當你付不起房屋抵押貸款時﹐貸款公司就會以法律行動將你的房子查封拍賣。如果在面臨這種情況時你瞭解有關個人的選擇權而且採取適當的行動﹐也許能夠保住家園﹐或者至少減輕一些房子被查封拍賣所造成的財務損失。
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