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24 June 2008 | 1 reply
Countrywide's name, meanwhile, will disappear.Kenneth Lewis, Bank of America's chief executive, is no stranger to big mergers, having spent $48 billion for FleetBoston Financial Corp, $34.6 billion for credit card issuer MBNA Corp and $21 billion last October for LaSalle Bank Corp.Yet Countrywide might be his riskiest purchase, given the difficulty of valuing the loans on its books and the uncertain levels of credit and litigation losses the second-largest U.S. bank might ultimately face.
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22 January 2021 | 22 replies
Hi Simon I am a GC and I would first like to say sorry for your experience with this contractor.
24 December 2018 | 14 replies
@Jane Lewis - Yes, it is basically correct.
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4 October 2019 | 9 replies
Originally posted by @Simon Ruiz:Has anyone on here have any success using a 203k Renovation loan in the Southern California Market... to start real estate investing afterwards??
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27 October 2019 | 20 replies
Welcome to BP, @Dusty Lewis!
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3 December 2018 | 4 replies
Lewis thank you.
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23 January 2019 | 6 replies
@Lewis Colon Glad this topic helped!