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Economic Stimulus Help Seniors with Reverse Mortgages

Depending on your political persuasion, you may be expecting this Bill to be one of the best things to come along since sliced bread or one of the worst possible disasters since the dropping of the atomic bomb.
Americans are split deeply about this legislation and as one might expect, much of the split does run [...]

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Housing Bill: Seniors and Reverse Mortgages

On 7/30/2008 President Bush signed HR 3221 into law which has many significant effects on homeowners. The Bill, in its final form, covered a number of subjects that Congress had been trying to resolve from the modernization of FHA, to foreclosure assistance for homeowners, to the shoring up for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
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Reverse Mortgage Basics For Seniors

Reverse mortgages are used to assist seniors who want to supplement their income with mortgage payments, but instead of paying the bank, those who take out the loan actually get paid. I spoke with someone the other day who had a completely mistaken concept of what these are used for and had the mistaken idea [...]

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