California Mortgage News

On The Move 
William Anfin joined CC Communications as senior developer.Susan Austin joined FWA’s Construction Administration group.

Farmer suicide on rise as India’s rural crisis deepens 
Despite failed crops and mounting debts, the family of Indian cotton farmer Chandrakant Gurenule never believed his suicide threats until he set himself alight and fled their home in flames.

Sudan’s refugees may be its hope 
Eighteen years after civil war pre-empted his childhood, African “Lost Boy” Khor Bher finally found his way back home from Denver to reunite with his mother. A Russian pilot ferried him and Denver volunteer Carol Rinehart to a ravaged village in southern Sudan.

All workers are in sales 
Most of us think about sales as a transaction. You swipe your credit card, you sign a mortgage, you drive away in a new car. But selling is also part of everyone’s lives as consumers, employees, parents and spouses. We sell our ideas and we even sell ourselves, especially when we’re pursuing a job or wooing a romantic partner. The experience of promoting yourself can be eerily similar to peddling

Financial Identity Fraud 
They’re accused of creating a false 1040 income tax form and using the document to try and obtain a mortgage. Here are the suspects being sought. They are 39-year-old Mark Louis Evans and 37-year-old Susan Lynn Peterson. The last known address for both of them was 738 Turner Road in Columbus.

In the home-buying frenzy, renters could reap bargains 
The long-term trend toward ownership is making the ‘bubble’ look fairly solid.

First Trust/FIDAC Mortgage Income Fund Declares Monthly Distribution for May of $0.085 Per Share 
LISLE, Ill.—-April 17, 2006–First Trust/FIDAC Mortgage Income Fund today declared the Fund’s regularly scheduled monthly distribution, payable on May 15, 2006 to shareholders of record as of May 3, 2006.