Blog Archive: August 2009

Welcome to Ilyce Glink's blog! Here you'll find Ilyce's latest insights on personal finance advice, real estate advice and consumer issues. Come back often for timely and interesting posts on a wide variety of topics.

Taylor Bean and Whitaker Mortgage Company Hotline Information for Borrowers

Added August 10, 2009 by Ilyce R. Glink

NEW UPDATE 9/10/09: Today's update is an edited, condensed transcript of my conversation with BOA spokesperson Rick Simon. Cenlar is a legitimate loan servicing company and Roundpoint is NOT A SCAM. The situation is confusing, but not fake. 9/01/09 Yesterday, we reported that Bank of America taking…

Topics: real estate advice, personal finance advice, mortgage, mortgage lenders, mortgage broker, mortgage fraud, consumer advice, taylor bean and whitaker mortgage company

Ilyce Glink Show Notes - August 9, 2009

Added August 9, 2009 by Ilyce R. Glink

Ilyce Glink Show Note updates: We're talking about how the end of the recession may not make life on Main Street feel like life on Wall Street. There is a new $2 billion Ponzi scheme. Ben Stein, takes a job as pitchman for one of those yucky "free credit score" websites and gets fired from the New…

Topics: real estate advice, foreclosure, save money

Today on the Clark Howard Show - Friday August 7, 2009

Added August 7, 2009 by Ilyce R. Glink

Today on the Clark Howard show, we discussed the new unemployment numbers. Ilyce talked about her upcoming How to Profit From Foreclosures event, on October 24th, and mentioned that Clark Howard listeners would get a special 2 for 1 offer on the Early Bird Special. Details of the offer are below. We…

Topics: foreclosure, unemployment, FHA 203k Loans, house raffle

Home Equity Disappearing on Today's Clark Howard Show - August 6, 2009

Added August 6, 2009 by Ilyce R. Glink

Filling in for Clark Howard, Ilyce talked about the Deutsche Bank study that says 48 percent of homeowners could be underwater with their mortgage (owe more than the house is worth) by 2011, up from 26 percent now. But another study says home prices rose 5 percent in the last quarter. We'll discuss…

Topics: mortgage, home equity loan, foreclosure, mortgage lenders