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Mercury cutting California auto and home insurance rates
Mercury cutting California auto and home insurance rates. The cuts were announced at a news conference by Mercury and California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner, who already approved the auto rate reductions ...Mercury wants rate cuts Sacramento BeeMercury Provides California Policyholders $61 Million Rate Reduction
Your questions for U.S. Rep. Laura Richardson
I'm overdue for a session of "Ask the blogger," so here goes. Today, something completely different: Instead of your questions for me, I'd like to hear your questions for U.S. Rep. Laura Richardson, the triple-default Democrat from Long Beach. I sent her office a list of questions in late May (you can see my questions by clicking at the bottom of this post) and haven't heard back, so I'm giving up and turning to you: submit your best (serious) questions for U.S. Rep. Laura Richardson, I'll sort through them and send them along to her congressional office. Fire away.Photo Credit:
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Foreclosure auction ads are deceptive, suit alleges
A lawsuit to watch, from Inman News: "A lawsuit filed in California Superior Court challenges real estate auction practices, charging that some auction companies engage in deceptive advertising and violate provisions of federal law related to real estate closing services." More: "'Many modern real estate auctions are nothing more than a bait-and-switch scheme to lure hopeful buyers to submit offers that can later be accepted or rejected by the lenders/sellers, despite the general public's perception that once the auctioneer declares, 'Sold,' the property is in fact sold,' the lawsuit charges. ... Filed June 12 on behalf of three individuals who attended
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