The Real Estate Sage » scam insurance http://realestatesage.net Real Estate, Mortage, News, Tips, Trends... We got It Here Tue, 10 Aug 2010 05:00:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Challenging Times http://realestatesage.net/information/challenging-times/ http://realestatesage.net/information/challenging-times/#comments Tue, 30 Dec 2008 21:27:30 +0000 editor http://realestatesage.net/?p=114 forecastThe need for proper monitoring and management in the housing sector has been highlighted by the recent sub-prime market collapse that caused more to lose homes in a financially troubled economy. Predicting the end of such housing market slumps is more of an art but should be based on factual details to prevent a recurrence of such disasters.
The fact that the housing market boomed because of unsubstantiated market practices that offered more houses for people who didn’t have the collateral needed for proper coverage of their homes caused all the troubles that led to the collapse. People lost houses so fast they barely had no time to react when mortgages were unpaid and the inevitable came, foreclosure. Help was offered but not in time and the problem ballooned with the fact that jobs were lost at the same time. Our hope is that such problems could be avoided in the coming times so it does not happen again.

]]> http://realestatesage.net/information/challenging-times/feed/ 0 Don’t be scammed. Know how the ball is being rolled. http://realestatesage.net/tips/dont-be-scammed-know-how-the-ball-is-being-rolled/ http://realestatesage.net/tips/dont-be-scammed-know-how-the-ball-is-being-rolled/#comments Mon, 31 Mar 2008 02:11:52 +0000 editor http://realestatesage.net/tips/dont-be-scammed-know-how-the-ball-is-being-rolled/ scam.jpg

Scammers are everywhere. If you think you’re invulnerable to it, then think about how many times you have opened an email and got thrilled with the contents of the letter. Think.

Almost all of us, at some point in our lives, got disillusioned by these. It happened once, and so, it can happen again. An interesting study by Consumerreports.org states that, chances are, a knowledgeable man in the field of finance is more likely to be scammed rather than an old woman who knows nothing at all about money matters. Scammers know how things work. They have the same wavelength as these financial gurus have, so they know how to pull their legs through money talk. On the other hand, innocent individuals tend to be a little precautious about things.

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