Louisville Mortgage News

Louisville Homeless Man Gets Refurbished House (The Kentucky Post)
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Standing on the refinished pine floor of his new home, Charles Elaster - homeless for the past 1 1/2 years - closed his eyes and took a deep breath.

Ohio's top stories: recession, Obama and Dann (The Columbus Dispatch)
Economic issues touched all Ohioans in 2008, from lost jobs to cuts in government services to mortgage foreclosures, and accounted for three of the top five news stories in the state.

Strange Days XV: Where the weird turn pro (Greensboro News & Record)
Welcome to the 15th annual edition of Strange Days, the News & Record's roundup of the idiotic, the ironic and the just plain weird. You're probably about as sick of this year's election as we are, so this version is relatively politics free. Relatively, because otherwise, the only big thing we're left to talk about is the economy, which, well -- not funny. Still, even in hard times people ...

Npower fined after reporters’ exposé (Times Online)
The energy giant Npower has been fined £1.8m after a Sunday Times investigation revealed that sales staff were routinely lying to customers in an effort to persuade them to sign up with the company.

Nov. figures are down 35% from a year ago (Louisville Courier-Journal)
Home sales in Louisville plunged 35 percent in November from a year ago, according to the Greater Louisville Association of Realtors.

Existing home sales sink in South (AP via Yahoo! News)
Existing home sales in Southern states sank nearly 24 percent in November compared to the same month last year, while the median sales price fell nearly 11 percent to $154,500, the National Association of Realtors reported Tuesday.

FPU offered at FBC (Winston County Journal)
Financial Peace University (FPU), the 13-week program taught by Dave Ramsey, has helped more than 650,000 families positively change their financial future.

Existing home sales sink in South (San Francisco Chronicle)
Existing home sales in Southern states sank nearly 24 percent in November compared to the same month last year, while the median sales price fell nearly 11 percent to $154,500, the National Association of Realtors reported Tuesday. The marked drop in sales in...

Man with no home gets one (Louisville Courier-Journal)
Standing on the refinished pine floor of his new home, Charles Elaster -- homeless for the past 1 ½ years -- closed his eyes and took a deep breath. "Home," he said. "This is good."