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            <author>elsa@RakeTeam.com (Elsa Rake)</author>
            <title>Beware The Shadow</title>
            <description> <![CDATA[ 
For months, we&rsquo;ve been expecting the next wave of foreclosures to hit the market.&nbsp; With a record number of homeowners defaulting on their mortgage payments, it&rsquo;s bound to happen sooner or later.&nbsp; According to yesterday&rsquo;s headlines from Housing Watch, we&rsquo;ve got a &ldquo;shadow inventory&rdquo; of almost 1.8 million homes that are on the brink of foreclosure.&nbsp; Of the 1.6 trillion in existing mortgages packaged into mortgage backed securities by Wall Street, ... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:28:25 -0600</pubDate>
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            <author>elsa@RakeTeam.com (Elsa Rake)</author>
            <title>Burn Your Mortgage?</title>
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Recently, I came across an article on AOL&rsquo;s Real Estate page&nbsp;highlighting an article&nbsp;in the blog DailyKos.&nbsp; For those not familiar with the &lsquo;Kos, it is devoted&nbsp;mainly to political and social commentary, along liberal lines.&nbsp; In the article AOL cited, the &lsquo;Kos urged those homeowners struggling with their mortgage to, walk away from their unpaid mortgages.&nbsp; In their words:

&ldquo;The real risk to the banks and investors is that the people in those ... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 06:12:44 -0600</pubDate>
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            <author>elsa@RakeTeam.com (Elsa Rake)</author>
            <title>Can You Separate Fact From Fiction?</title>
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As I was skimming&nbsp;this morning&rsquo;s New York Times headlines, when a piece on &ldquo;Mega Content&rdquo; sites caught my eye.&nbsp; The article&rsquo;s emphasis centered on the the quality, or lack thereof, of&nbsp;&rdquo;Content Sites&rdquo; like Answers.com&nbsp; The bottom line is, that while these sites are rich with content, and are quickly attracting viewers, maybe we need to consider what&nbsp;the quality of the material found there is?&nbsp; In other words, there&rsquo;s mounds ... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:07:17 -0600</pubDate>
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