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The number of homes facing foreclosure jumped 57% in January compared to a year ago, with lenders increasingly forced to take possession of homes they couldn’t unload at auctions, a mortgage research firm said Monday.

Nationwide, some 233,001 homes received at least one notice from lenders last month related to overdue payments, compared with 148,425 a year earlier, according to Irvine, Calif.-based RealtyTrac Inc. Nearly half of the total involved first-time default notices.

The worsening situation came despite ongoing efforts by lenders to help borrowers manage their payments by modifying loan terms, working out long-term repayment plans and other actions.

“You have more people going into default and a higher percentage of the properties going back to the banks,” said Rick Sharga, RealtyTrac’s vice president of marketing.

I  signed up with Realtytrac for 7 day free membership that allows you to search for foreclosures in your area. Doesn’t cost you anything for 7 day but you can get an idea. Home Bargains! Sign up for your Free 7-day trial at
RealtyTrac.

Here is a site where you can find a lawyer that speaks your native language(da! oui!) an search by law practice area - lawfirmsofnewyork.com. This website seems to be for New York area only.

I just checked foreclosures in Queens, Brooklyn and Long Island and its insane!  We’ve been looking for a house for past 3 years and I am hoping to find a home next year before summer. Sick and tired of helping my landloard. I was suprised on how many houses are there - Suffolk - Nothport, Nassau - Port Washington ,Great Neck, Sea Cliff! I just signed up with Realtytrac for 7 day free membership that allows you to search for foreclosures in your area. Doesn’t cost you anything for 7 day but you can get an idea. Home Bargains! Sign up for your Free 7-day trial at
RealtyTrac.

Banks are posting billions in losses, Feds lowered the rate - but who cares, nobody is buying anyway. Our country is using foreign money not to go into government foreclosure and keep economy somewhat a float(would’ve been a recession 5 years back). Prices and affordability went so out of hand so it sounds more like they try to sell us Bentley as an everyday car with ridiculous 10% discount!!  The word foreclosure returns 3,880,000 searches in google.  Wanna buy your neighbor’s castle(which was probably financed with ARM!) check out wiseforeclosures.com for listings in your area.

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Holidays are coming!

It is time to say thank you in a form of nice gift that will be remembered not a DVD of “Office Space” :-).

Yeah it happens. You know .. you get your boyfriend’s name on your shoulder or tribal tattoo from spring break.. and then you become a mom or get a new boyfriend or husband and that tattoo is no longer appropriate. You wish you could peeled it off…

Now you can remove it with laser tattoo removal - check out this website to find a specialist - forgetink.com

DomainFlipper has another great article on how a simple mistake in web design / SEO forced the company to use a sponsored search and pay for it. read it here http://domainflipper.blogspot.com/2007/10/big-web-design-mistake-learn-lesson.html

I’ve seeen alot of people using jump blank pages (ones that redirect user to Flash or another web page) . People don’t understand what gets picked by search engine I guess.

I was always against the idea of middle man. WTF? Talent representative, recruiter and all this bullshit!

 You love writing music so why do you need a freakin agent and sign contract for 3 years with this agent?

They tell you what to write and what sells and you have to take this BS?!

From creative artist you turn into a whore!

 Well not anymore - thanks to an example of NIN!

Of late, Reznor has openly embraced file-sharing as a means to obtain his band’s music, telling fans in Australia to “steal it. Steal away. Give it to your friends.” In May, he sounded off on music pricing and packaging after he discovered “Year Zero” was selling for nearly U.S. $30 in Australia.

I hope that’s where the music industry is heading - free of agents!!!

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Is Domain flipping the next thing since Real Estate flipping just died?!

interesting article!My friend asked me to register a domain name for her and I was surprised how many good names(.coms)  are taken but not really developed into web sites - just sitting there parked(or not even parked - this part I don’t understand if you have a domain why not put it up-there to get a word & traffic  out) waiting to be sold.  Read full article here

Second Life Competitor - Google’s turn to show it’s own 3D Virtual World

Seems like Google has their own version of Second Life…
I am not surprised. I liked the concept of Second Life but could not really enjoy it. Graphics are from 10 years back and very confusing to navigate for a newbie.
Google has pretty much all the components for it - Google Earth, SketchUp and Orkut to tie it all into virtual social networking. Orkut was launched in South America and hopefully will make it here by then. See full article on TechCrunch