Article: Home Refinancing Scam ? Thieves Use Identity Theft To Steal Your Equity
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Home Refinancing Scam ? Thieves Use Identity Theft To Steal Your Equity
Since the demise of the stock market in 2000, the real estate market has been booming. Investors who are justifiably cautious about investing in stocks have been investing in homes. This has driven the prices of homes in the United States to record levels. Long-time homeowners are discovering that they have a tremendous amount of equity in their homes as the values rise, sometimes in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. The past five years have been good to homeowners and lenders. Unfortunately, the past five years have also been good to equity thieves, who are using identity theft to steal the equity from homes, often without the homeowner?s knowledge.
As the median value of a home in the United States is currently a little more than $200,000, there is plenty of incentive ...
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