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It's no secret that many of our cities are financially strapped for cash as their expenses continue to outweigh their revenues year after year.However, declaring bankruptcy is not necessarily the answer.

American icon Dick Clark died recently at the age of 82. He is best known for hosting the television show “American Bandstand” as far back as the 1950s to three decades at the helm of “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” all the way up to this past Dec. 31. But what many people don’t know is that Clark also created and hosted several TV game shows and owned a chain of restaurants.

Do relevant regulations permit a bank or AMC to assign an appraisal on a Cairo, Georgia-based property to an appraiser whose office is physically located in Tallahassee, Florida? I suggest three key regulatory issues.

In this blog, I have written on numerous occasions about telemarketing calls I have received which I think are examples of bad marketing. I think I should give some time to those calls that might have a strategy worth exploring.

If you think there couldn't possibly be yet another new requirement facing servicers, think again.

Some friends and I recently decided to do a "staycation" in Scottsdale, Ariz. The experience was horrendous, but they taught me several valuable lessons about our industry.

For those lenders who decide not to pay the penalty under the new healthcare law, and instead provide insurance there are certain practical realities to consider.

This article is the first of a series of articles on how you can develop a warrior mindset to overcome obstacles and challenges in your business. And it all begins with your mindsets, or your habits of thinking.

The problem is that the future is unpredictable: just as we can’t always foresee what will be on the litigation panels or general sessions, neither can we police for all the potential fraud trends on the horizon.

The operators of an allegedly deceptive mortgage modification business will pay more than $750,000 in ill-gotten gains to settle Federal Trade Commission charges. The settlements also permanently ban the 11 defendants from selling any mortgage assistance relief products.