Wyden Urges AG to Investigate Illegal Fees on Struggling Homeowners
Washington, D.C. - March 11, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden today urged the U.S. Attorney General to investigate allegations that a mortgage servicing firm is overcharging struggling...
View ArticleLocal Real Estate Professionals Sentenced for Wire Fraud
PORTLAND, OR - March 18, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Geoffrey Montani, 36, and Kenneth Jones, 50, both of Portland, Oregon, were sentenced to 15 months in prison in separate hearings following their...
View ArticleBonamici Announces Housing Vouchers for Washington County Homeless Veterans
Beaverton, OR - May 7, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR) today announced that the Housing Authority of Washington County is now eligible for 35 HUD-Veterans Affairs...
View ArticleNew Refinance Program for Underwater Homeowners in Multnomah County
Salem - June 13, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Oregon Housing and Community Services Department (OHCS) and Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley announced the launch of the Rebuilding American Homeownership...
View ArticleUSDA ADMINISTRATOR HIGHLIGHTS JUNE HOMEOWNERSHIP MONTH IN OREGON
Portland, Ore. - June 13, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- USDA Rural Development’s Chief of Staff for the Rural Housing Service, Dom McCoy, marked National Homeownership Month by highlighting programs to...
View ArticleTom Kemper new executive director of Housing Works
Redmond, OR - June 25, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Tom Kemper, an attorney and former real estate developer inPortland, recently was appointed executive director of Housing Works, the housing authority...
View ArticleMerkley Introduces Bills to Help Middle Class Families with New Home...
WASHINGTON, DC - July 25, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today, Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley introduced the Rebuilding American Homeownership Act to help middle class families by providing new refinancing...
View ArticleMerkley Announces $1.3 Million Federal Grant for Homeless Veterans in...
Portland, OR - July 29, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley today announced $1.3 million in new funding for Transition Projects Inc., to help homeless veterans and their families...
View ArticleHome Rescue Program Offers up to $30,000 to Homeowners Statewide
Salem, OR - August 27, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Wednesday, August 28th at noon, a new state foreclosure prevention program aimed at helping homeowners struggling to make their payments will be...
View ArticleCentral Oregon Veterans to get more access to affordable housing
Redmond, OR - October 17, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Housing Works, the leading affordable housing provider serving the tri-county Central Oregon region, has secured an additional fifteen (15)...
View ArticleTax credit for the severely disabled or disabled children reinstated
SALEM - March 24, 2014 - (RealEstateRama) -- The 2014 Legislature passed SB 1534 allowing all taxpayers, regardless of income, to claim the severely disabled or disabled child exemption credit
View ArticleNew Refinance Program for Underwater Homeowners in Multnomah County
Salem - June 13, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Oregon Housing and Community Services Department (OHCS) and Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley announced the launch of the Rebuilding American Homeownership...
View ArticleUSDA ADMINISTRATOR HIGHLIGHTS JUNE HOMEOWNERSHIP MONTH IN OREGON
Portland, Ore. - June 13, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- USDA Rural Development’s Chief of Staff for the Rural Housing Service, Dom McCoy, marked National Homeownership Month by highlighting programs to...
View ArticleTom Kemper new executive director of Housing Works
Redmond, OR - June 25, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Tom Kemper, an attorney and former real estate developer inPortland, recently was appointed executive director of Housing Works, the housing authority...
View ArticleMerkley Bill Would Help Homeowners Refinance, Rebuild Equity
Washington, DC - May 28, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley introduced the Rebuilding Equity Act, a bill that will lower costs for some homeowners seeking to refinance through the...
View ArticleMerkley Unveils Bold Plan to Jump-Start Housing Markets
WASHINGTON, DC - July 26, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley today offered a new plan to tackle one of the most persistent challenges to the sputtering economy: the massive number...
View ArticleEnergy Efficiency Upgrades Part of a Winning Formula for Oregon School District
WASHINGTON, D.C. - August 28, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- A while ago, we wrote about the quiet, rural community of Vernonia, Oregon, which had been through its share of hard economic times. After two...
View ArticleNew Legal Assistance Program for Low-Income Households Facing Foreclosure
Salem, OR - November 21, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Low-income homeowners and renters affected by foreclosure now have access to new a statewide service that provides free legal assistance from an...
View ArticlePortland Man Found Guilty of Conspiracy to Manufacture and Distribute...
PORTLAND, OR - December 13, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- On Friday, December 7, 2012, Tu Ngoc Tran, 38, of Portland, Oregon, was found guilty by a federal jury of conspiracy to manufacture or distribute...
View ArticleVeterans Affairs Department Agrees to GI Bill Housing Allowance Fix for OIT...
December 14, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- In a good first step toward fairer housing allowances for veterans going to school on the post-9/11 GI bill, the Department of Veterans Affairs is allowing...
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