Home Equity Loan Blog

Stepdaughter's home equity loan suit vs. Peterson settled
Durham Herald Sun, NC - Sep 14, 2005 DURHAM -- A lawsuit involving a $75,000 home equity loan taken out by convicted wife-killer Michael Peterson reportedly has been settled, leaving only a small

Fitch Downgrades 1 Class of First Union Home Equity Loan Trust
Business Wire (press release), CA - Sep 16, 2005 NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 16, 2005--Fitch Ratings has downgraded the following First Union Home Equity Loan Trust, series 1997-2 issue:

First Niagara Financial Group Reports Net Income of $24.2 Million
Yahoo! News (press release) - 19 hours ago by a combination of the flat yield curve, market pressures on loan spreads and commercial real estate and business loans and an 8% increase in home equity loans

Discovery Partners sells division
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Neal St. Anthony: Young lawyer takes aim at equity strippers
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune - Oct 10 6:57 PM
Leah Weaver is a fledgling lawyer with $100,000 in college and law school loans to repay. But she has chosen a $36,000-a-year job in public-interest law even though she could easily make twice much at a law firm.Save to My Web

N.C. Novelist Appeals Conviction
Los Angeles Times - Oct 11 4:07 AM
DURHAM, N.C. -- A novelist sentenced to life in prison for the beating death of his wife has filed an appeal alleging he was wrongfully convicted.Save to My Web

Court Turns Down Nobel Nominee Death Case
Los Angeles Times - Oct 11 9:20 AM
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court refused Tuesday to take up the case of California death row inmate Stanley "Tookie" Williams, a founder of the Crips street gang whose later work for peace won him a Nobel Peace Prize nomination.Save to My Web

HELOC for emergency fund?
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Union Federal Rolls Out New Home Equity Offering to Correspondent Lenders through Guardian Mortgage Documents'
Business Wire via Yahoo! - LAKEWOOD, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. Union Federal has previously offered a HELOC product through its retail and wholesale divisions but not manage production and delivery. The HELOC offering is part of Union Federal's

Fiserv Integrates Credit Processing Services into MortgageServ HELOC Servicing Support
Business Wire - September 20, 2005 10:30 AM US Eastern Timezone Fiserv Integrates Credit Processing Services into MortgageServ HELOC Servicing Support PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 20, 2005--Fiserv Lending Solutions, a business unit of Fiserv, Inc. ( the problem, since access to HELOC funds resides right in the wallets

Ask Dr. Don: Debt restructuring for financial flexibility
Bankrate.com - into that account, getting out of a variable-rate HELOC, in an upward-trending interest rate environment, and giving you