Has there been an announcement that I've missed?

I answered how I do this in the posting directly above this posting on this thread.ORGANIZING FOR SUCCESSThe Sales team of my real estate business is pretty excited by my announcement that from now on we will also provide financing (through our rehab lending business) for our wholesale properties.Tomorrow, we're doing our Lender Meetup online.

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There is one coming up that, in Chicago, is organized by a lady who announced on BP that she just quit her job to focus on real estate investing full time.

But for the lender, the process was very easy, but its the same as conventional loan long :) Its to my understanding the program is being discontinued as of Oct 7th, you have to have bid accepted BY Oct 7th to get in on the 10%:http://www.homebridgefunding.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/Announcement-2014-59.pdf

This week, as seen on the BiggerPockets News Page, FannieMae and FreddieMac (the large government entities that back a majority of U.S. mortgages) announced that they will halt the foreclosure process for the mortgages they currently own, as well as halting the eviction process for tenants who live in the properties they have taken back.

However, they announced that they are moving basically all of their white collar positions out of state.

Intel just announced 12k global layoffs, but other companies are "quietly" doing as large or larger layoffs. 

. , that's just this forum, which is for Official Announcements or Questions about BiggerPockets.

When they are ready, we will make a big announcement.