The Closing Commando

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I got a call first thing yesterday morning that our closing for House (uh, what is it now) 15 was scheduled for this morning at 10 am! I stood over people at their desks while they called the lender and faxed her what she needed in order to close. I'm about to drive to House 14 to pay Contractor 2 and his guys for the last time. But, just after we got started on that, I got a call from the 4-house-refi lender from over a month ago.

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"No tenants are found, no rental payments are collected, no mortgage payments are made, the house goes into default -- turns out it's not worth anything -- and the borrower is left holding the bag and their credit is destroyed," says Rachel Dollar, a lawyer in Santa Rosa, Calif., who represents lenders in mortgage-fraud cases. But many borrowers simply don't want to be on the hook for more money than their homes are worth.

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