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    In the U.S., the rate of home foreclosure is gradually increasing each year, which means that there are fewer homeowners. Even though it is the duty of the banks ' to make sure that prospective clients can purchase the ideal home and pay off their mortgages, it is the role of potential homeowners’ to conduct research on a range of homes that are within their price range that will not result in foreclosure. The increase of home foreclosures places the economy under a great strain in order to maintain

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    It is not surprising that after having lost their homes either in foreclosure or short sale, “foreclosure victims” were hesitant to purchase new homes. Losing a home, a place of stability, safety, and family, is just as mentally taxing as economically. However, as the world economy is recovering from the 2008 financial crisis, so are the victims of the housing market crash are slowly opening up to taking up mortgages and becoming home-owners once again. As the economy slowly improves, in the fourth

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    The Foreclosure Crisis

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    The “Foreclosure Crisis” cannot be solved it can only be slowed by programs and policies offered as management tools to curtail the volume of home owners going into foreclosure proceedings. This “Foreclosure Crisis” should be addressed from the perspective of both the home buyer/owner and the lender. Both sides of this coin are required to create a balance of suggestions, policies and modifications towards the lending practices of mortgage companies and the reiteration of the home buyer’s positive

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    There are many reasons a person can end up in foreclosure. Many people were victims of predatory lenders, whom they trusted to have their best interests at heart. These lenders misled homebuyers and helped them achieve loans for purchases that were beyond their budget. While there are some who may put blame on the individual for buying out of their budget, they should realize most people did not purchase mansions, they simply sought out a home in a good school district; a home that allowed their

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    perfect vision as a foreclosure epidemic struck the country, leaving millions of Americans without a home and in financial straits in the aftermath of the 2010 Foreclosure Crisis. However, as time passes, moving Americans away from the economic devastation of the crisis, foreclosure victims are increasingly qualified to take advantage of the growing number of options for potential homeowners to purchase their own homes. Loans that had at one point been impossible for foreclosure victims to receive

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    The foreclosure crisis has hit America exceptionally hard these past few years especially in California where the housing market is at its worst. California is also the worst because it is home to a lot of the most expensive properties. People are walking away from their homes because they cannot afford the mortgages or loans that they took out on their homes. The lenders are also to blame for this because they did not thoroughly look at them borrower’s credit and income to ensure that they would

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    Some measures that have already been taken in the foreclosure dilemma include a tax credit for first time buyers. This tax credit creates an incentive for younger people to purchase properties. In order to help this crisis, incentives need to be created to allow people to purchase and maintain payments on their property. Lenders also need to be given an incentive to take a loss and sell some properties. Creating incentives will allow the housing market to recover. If the current tax credit

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    The current foreclosure crisis is affecting everyone in this nation. If people are not experiencing the crisis firsthand, they hear about it through family, friends, and their other social networks. Nonetheless, it is impossible to escape because the media is constantly showing coverage about it. People are becoming more aware and seeing how expansive the impact is through television, internet, print, and radio. Americans are quickly realizing the impact the foreclosure crisis is having on the

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    Essay on The Foreclosure Crisis

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    Foreclosure is one over arching problem facing the United States of America today with no one perfect solution. Each person in the US suffering from foreclosure has a unique circumstance and situation that has led them to the economic turmoil they face, and that uniqueness therefore requires any solution to the overall issue of foreclosure to be versatile to a plethora of situations. There is not one faultless way to resolve the crisis, but with a combination of different measures, the foreclosure

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    Although, I have not had to face the foreclosure crisis, I see it all around me since I am in Texas and we see it a lot. In my opinion, we can solve the foreclosure crisis with the participation of the lender and the banks to assist the homeowners in helping them to get back on track and hopefully be able to remain in their home and not have the home go into foreclosure. Most of the time when the home goes into foreclosure it seems to be a lot of heartache on most families and not to mention the

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