As real estate markets continue to decline around the country, many homeowners are wondering what they can do to protect themselves and the investment they have made in their home. There are actually many different steps you can take to help stop foreclosure and make sure you stay ahead of the softening real estate market.

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Greater than 30% of homeowners before the housing slump are foreclosure casualties now and experts predict that that figure will worsen beyond 50% over the next two years. Apart from those which were uncontested, many affected homeowners had fought and lost. If only they had the benefit of the rescue programs that are in place nowadays, a great many of them would have come through.

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It’s been long couple of years in real estate, the last two. Although fears of a systemic crash have somewhat abated, we?re far from out of the woods. The Housing Rescue Bill (July 2008) must have generated at least some degree of guarded optimism. Already, National Association of Realtors reported pending home sales nationally rose 5.3 percent from May to June (Aug 7 2008, St. Louis Business Journal).

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