With the Obama administration and private lenders actively considering mortgage-principal-reduction programs to help financially distressed homeowners, the Internal Revenue Service has issued an advisory to taxpayers who receive — or seek to receive — such assistance if it’s offered. Editor’s Note: The only thing I would add to this, for the moment, is that any […]

Tags: cancellations, damages, distressed homeowners, forgiveness of debt, Form 1099-C, Form 982, income tax, IRS, Obama, Ocwen, principal reduction, principal residence, real estate taxes, Ron Faris, subprime loans
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It is hard to compute the total damage to everyone, but it seems pretty clear at this point that EVERYONE is effected. Every government agency involved with real estate taxes, and government service funded by real estate taxes, every homeowner who sees his home equity decline, every neighborhood that turns into a “deferred maintenance” junkyard […]

Tags: appraised value, borrower, government services, home equity, organized crime, real estate distress, real estate taxes, vandalism
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