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President Barack Obama on Wednesday, Feb 17th unveiled the next step in his multi-pronged efforts to lift the United States out of recession, pledging up to $275 billion to help stem a wave of home foreclosures that sparked the U.S. financial meltdown. $200 billion to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and $ 75 billion to help 5 million borrowers refinance. At the end of last year, just over 9 percent of all home loans in the United States were in arrears or already in foreclosure, the Mortgage Bankers Association has said. A total of 8.1 million U.S. homes, or 16 percent of all households with mortgages, could fall into foreclosure by 2012, according to a report by Credit Suisse. Are steps taken by the Federal Government going to help, hurt or have no effect? With this information are you more likely to buy or sell real estate in 2009?

There have been a few articles written recently debating the accuracy of certain company’s foreclosure data. Mainly regarding the prices associated with foreclosure and pre-foreclosure listings.  FSBO.com has been partnered with Foreclosure.com for more than 5 years, and could not be happier with the reliable data that they provide our customers and the speed at which they respond to any customer service issues we send their way.  Please take a minute to read each of the two articles below

Foreclosure.com Article:  “Free foreclosure listings: What is right and wrong”

Inman News Article:  “When prices are too good to be true”

Both articles received blog comments from industry professionals, Realtor’s, and CEO’s of similar Foreclosure websites.  I am curious to hear what actual consumers think about all of this.  Do you feel tricked, or mislead by sites such as the ones mentioned in the articles?