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Strategies & Market Trends : The Residential Real Estate Crash Index

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To: saveslivesbyday who wrote (123818)5/18/2008 5:35:16 PM
From: Jim McMannisRead Replies (1) of 306849
 
$1M mortgage mess: No English? No income? No problem!
How a single mother in public housing got a million in mortgages

bostonherald.com

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During the frenzied days of no-down-payment loans and cursory credit checks in the early 2000s, two out-of-state lenders gave more than $1 million in mortgages to a Dorchester woman who lives in public housing and barely speaks English, the Herald has learned.

The loans, originated by New Jersey-based Equity One Inc. and the now-defunct Meritage Mortgage Corp., foreclosed last year, making 243-245 Washington St. and 16 Dacia St. among the 233 foreclosures to hit Dorchester in 2007, city and land records show
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