While the cost of the existing bailouts is staggering, I suspect we will see more bailouts, more stimulus programs, more jobs programs, and generally more government spending to come.

My current program allows for more options, and one of them is simply negotiating the deal and collecting a fee.

I'm in the process right now, actually. very difficult because they've been citing the current lease when the terms serve them, and ignoring it when they don't.Quick synopsis - doing a lead paint removal program with HUD that imposes rent restrictions so I have to cut their rent by $200/month.

In other words, get the government out of our lives and let us sink or swim on our own!

I really wonder if banks are going to hold off on foreclosing, and then just sell the bad note to the government.

The crowd has died down and the programs are not put together very well.

If you are real estate agent broker or company we have incentive programs for referrals.

Everyone wants a government solution.

"It's kind of compounding the problem, I think." . . .The government's TARP purchases of preferred shares gave some banks a thicker capital cushion -- if only fleetingly -- which regulators hoped they would use to make more loans.

I don't think (as much as i would like it to) that the government would ever let the standuard of living fall like it did in the 30's.