Given a Shovel, Digging Deeper Into Debt - Herald Tribune
The collection agencies call at least 20 times a day. For a little quiet, Diane McLeod stashes her phone in the dishwasher. Todd Heisler/The New York Times Diane McLeod, now awaiting eviction from the house she hoped to own forever, owes interest

I can’t afford the surcharge on my relationship - Globe and Mail
‘Absence makes the heart grow fungus,” Stephen Page of the Barenaked Ladies once sang. The singer, who was arrested on drug possession charges this week, allegedly after a dispute with his long-distance girlfriend, should have heeded his own advice

Flagstar Bancorp, Inc. Q2 2008 Earnings Call Transcript - Seekingalpha.com
Mark Hammond - Vice Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer Paul Borja - Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President Welcome to Flagstar s second quarter earnings conference call. My name is Mark Hammond and I am the

Welcoming foreclosure - Columbus Dispatch
Ralph Stover has good credit and a steady job. But he took out a risky interest-only first mortgage and a second mortgage to buy a new 1,900-square-foot condominium in 2003 with no money down.

Healing through art, artist’s paintings help families cope with loss - Carroll County Online
“Let’s go see the boys,” Westerville, Ohio, artist Anita Miller says as she heads down the unfinished wooden stairs to her studio. There are “the boys”: Eight life-size oil paintings, images she hopes capture the spirit and personalities of Lima

Novato the mortage meltdown epicenter of Marin - Marin Independent Journal
Special to the IJ/Douglas Zimmerman Jim Stafford (left) of Provident Real Estate shows a real estate-owned property to Steven Leonard last week at Novato s Parkhaven complex. Five of eight Parkhaven sales this year were distressed properties. KIDS