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		<title>Foreclosure Lawyers Could have Been Woefully Inexperienced</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nearly half of the lawyers working in Florida’s largest “foreclosure firms” have been practicing law for less than three years, making the entire foreclosure process – already highly suspect thanks to the robo-signing fiasco back in October – even more susceptible to lawsuits and counter-claims from borrowers who do not believe that their foreclosures were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maybe MLS Listings Need a &#8220;Friends Only&#8221; Tag</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A real estate company in Cheyenne, Wyoming is reporting that its property listings have been “hacked” by overseas con artists who are claiming to be landlords for those properties[1]. Assist2Sell has reported the issue, and one employee reports that “people have been falling for it like crazy.” The scam, which is a variation on an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://investoracademy.reinews.org/228/maybe-mls-listings-need-a-friends-only-tag/</link>
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		<title>Mother-Daughter Con Team Cost 24 Homeowners about $4.4 Million</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It never hurts to ask to see some legitimate proof of professional certification, and when someone offers to take over your payments and then brings in their daughter to help you draw up the paperwork, it might pay to check their credentials. A mother-daughter team of con artists in California spent nearly two years talking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://investoracademy.reinews.org/225/mother-daughter-con-team-cost-24-homeowners-about-4-4-million/</link>
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		<title>Freddie Mac Requests Additional $100 Million</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to $2.5 billion in losses in the third quarter of 2010, Freddie Mac will need an additional $100 million in taxpayer support, the GSE reported yesterday – and that is an improvement[1]. In the second quarter of 2010, Freddie reported a net loss of $6.0 billion. Freddie Mac is hoping that the U.S. Treasury [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://investoracademy.reinews.org/223/freddie-mac-requests-additional-100-million/</link>
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		<title>Speed Dating for Real Estate Investors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever felt like you could never network fast enough at a big event or that you were simply throwing your cards at people without adequate introduction? If so, then a Midwest real estate investing trend could be the answer for you. A REIA in the Kansas City area has established a special form [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://investoracademy.reinews.org/221/speed-dating-for-real-estate-investors/</link>
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		<title>Home Prices May Already Have Hit Bottom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The “leading economists” who participate in the National Association of Business Economics (NABE)’s October 2010 Outlook survey assess the housing market recovery as “tepid overall” but believe that “home prices have hit bottom,” claims the NABE report, released yesterday[1]. These analysts are professionals with firms like Moody’s and Fannie Mae. While the figures and estimates [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://investoracademy.reinews.org/219/home-prices-may-already-have-hit-bottom/</link>
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		<title>Real Estate Scam of the Day: Look Out for “Lawyers” Touting Fake Properties</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A woman in Quincy, New York has recently been indicted for pretending to be a lawyer, obtaining equity lines of credit and mortgages through false information and even taking out loans on properties that did not exist. The woman, along with three other people, allegedly made more than $2.8 million in about two years by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://investoracademy.reinews.org/215/real-estate-scam-of-the-day-look-out-for-lawyers-touting-fake-properties/</link>
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		<title>Real Estate Scam of the Day: Former NHL Player Sues Minneapolis Developer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If Ned Abdul, a Minneapolis real estate developer and landlord, thought he had put his troubled past and possible fraud behind him earlier this year, he was wrong. Abdul, who is already in hot water thanks to possibly skimming cash from a nightclub and event center and fraudulent billing of tenants, now faces charges from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://investoracademy.reinews.org/210/real-estate-scam-of-the-day-former-nhl-player-sues-minneapolis-developer/</link>
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		<title>National Association of Realtors Takes Major Lenders to Task</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Leadership from the National Association of Realtors (NAR) met with representatives from Bank of America and Wells Fargo to discuss difficulties related to getting “deals to the closing table” earlier this week. The trade group has similar meetings scheduled with Chase Home Mortgage and CitiMortgage later this year[1]. While according to NAR, both lenders understand [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://investoracademy.reinews.org/207/national-association-of-realtors-takes-major-lenders-to-task/</link>
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		<title>Scam of the Day: Orange County Attorney Indicted for Purchasing Homes at Inflated Prices</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A California lawyer and his friends worked together with 30 sellers to net over $2 million sales on 30 homes in Orange and Riverside counties in California. On the loan applications for the mortgages on the properties, the lawyer and his cohorts created “straw buyer” persona that appeared to be living in the properties. Once [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://investoracademy.reinews.org/205/scam-of-the-day-orange-county-attorney-indicted-for-purchasing-homes-at-inflated-prices/</link>
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