appraisals

    By Zac Bissonnette

    | 12:00PM 1/15/2009
    Carol and Gregory Clark of Washington have filed a lawsuit against Countrywide Financial accusing the company of rigging the appraisal process "in a scheme to boost profits at the expense of homeowners and independent appraisers." soKe.flace('walletpop-countrywide', '618', '600');...

    By David Reed

    | 3:00PM 4/15/2008
    Mortgage expert David Reed invites Walletpop readers to ask him questions about real estate financing. leave your questions in the comment section of this post. In the olden days, say before electricity maybe, mortgage applications required all sorts of documentation before the loan request was...

    By Zac Bissonnette

    | 5:45PM 4/07/2008
    I recently wrote about sellers in a declining real estate market who can't bring themselves to lower the prices on their homes. The result is a decline in the number of homes being sold and a glut of overpriced real estate languishing on the market.In an email, WalletPop reader Elfi Starrett, a...