Did Cuyahoga County’s foreclosure situation bottom out in 2007? After suffering more than 25,000 sheriff’s sales since 2000 — nearly 7,000 last year alone — is there any relief in sight for this community in 2008?
Sure doesn’t look like it.
Total foreclosure cases filed in the first four months of 2007:Â 5,012.
Total in the first four [...]
Here’s more information about the Erie County Common Pleas Court’s new policy of staying foreclosure cases for a 120 day “cooling off period”.
Ohio Consumers’ Counsel press release on the version of Senate Bill 221 that was passed by the Ohio House yesterday.
Here’s the bill (84 pages).
154 sheriff’s deeds were filed with the Cuyahoga County Recorder’s Office last week (April 14 through April 18).
Here’s who filed five or more:
US Bank (25)
Wells Fargo (25)
Bank of New York (21)
Department of HUD (15)
Federal National Mortgage Assn (12)
Deutsche Bank (10)
HSBC Bank (8)
Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp (5)
(Previous week.)
In the email, courtesy of Jeff Small… a new report released today by the Attorney General’s office. From the press release:
Borrowers Still Without Help, Foreclosure Report Reveals
COLUMBUS – Thousands of desperate Ohio homeowners are trapped in a mortgage crisis and are not getting enough help from loan servicers or the federal government, according to [...]
Via Cleveland Real Estate News (thanks, Carole), today’s US News and World Report has an interview with Ohio AG Marc Dann on the state’s foreclosure strategies — specifically the “Save The Dream” campaign to recruit 1,400 lawyers for pro bono assistance to foreclosure defendants.
This post and comments at BFD got me wondering: How’s that brave new world of competitive IPTV and sizzling broadband that Ohioans were promised last summer — when the General Assembly overwhelmingly approved and the Governor happily signed SB 117, AT&T’s “cable franchise reform” bill — coming along?
From Darren Hamm at Neighborhood Housing Services:
FYI- Judge Roger E. Binette of the Erie County Common Pleas Court has placed all foreclosure suits on a 120-day “stay†beginning April 15. He was quoted as stating “my court will set foreclosure cases for a Settlement/Case Management Conference (“CMCâ€). At the CMC, the financial institution or note [...]
181 sheriff’s deeds were filed with the Cuyahoga County Recorder’s Office last week (April 7 through April 11).
Here’s who filed five or more:
Deutsche Bank (25)
Federal National Mortgage Assn (25)
US Bank (17)
Wells Fargo (15)
Department of HUD (10)
Bank of New York (8)
Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp (7)
HSBC Bank (7)
(Previous week.)
This week’s Scene has a short piece [...]
More email: Alan Forman sends a link to this NPR “On the Media” interview with Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive, who’s helped hook up the residents of the Valencia Gardens low income housing estate in San Francisco’s Mission District to 100 mbps Internet service via a city-owned fiber link.
There is, of course, a [...]