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Arizona Supreme Court Rules Metadata Is a Public
Record

post from Commercial Real Estate Appraiser - Appraisal Blog, APPRAISAL/CONSULTING SERVICES: 310.337.1973 on 03 November 2009 06:32:00 PM. © Commercial Real Estate Appraiser - Appraisal Blog, APPRAISAL/CONSULTING SERVICES: 310.337.1973

Arizona Supreme Court Rules Metadata Is a Public Record

Posted Oct 30, 2009, 07:30 am CST
By Debra Cassens Weiss

The Arizona Supreme Court has ruled that the state’s public records law requires disclosure of metadata embedded in the electronic records.

The supreme court ruled in the case of a demoted police officer who wanted access to metadata to see whether notes written by his supervisor were backdated to justify the job action, according to the Associated Press and the Arizona Republic. Metadata can show when an electronic document was created or revised, and how it was altered.

The ruling is believed to be the first state supreme court ruling on public records and metadata, AP says.

Additional coverage:

The American Lawyer: “Ariz. Supreme Court Sees the Metadata”

Ars Technica: “Lobbyists beware: judge rules metadata is public record”

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Who Does Lead Generation Work For Anyway

post from Real Estate Investing For Real | A BiggerPockets Investment Property Blog on 03 November 2009 06:31:32 PM. © Real Estate Investing For Real | A BiggerPockets Investment Property Blog

I’m a marketing director at a real estate firm. If I had to sum up what I do every day in three words it would be, “I generate leads.” It’s both much easier and much harder than you would think. Confused? Let me take you inside and show you why everyone in the real estate [...]

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Why Were Walking Away

post from Real Estate Consumer News on 03 November 2009 06:24:37 PM. © Real Estate Consumer News

I posted yesterday on the Wall Street Journal article Report Sheds Light on Why Homeowners Walk Away. A couple of commenters on the WSJ article said why they were walking away from their mortgage, and I thought their comments were interesting enough to repeat. The first walker says that as a good borrower he is [...]Related posts:

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Contributing Factors of the Recession

post from Housing Assist of America on 03 November 2009 06:17:00 PM. © Housing Assist of America

What Caused This Recession?Of course, the banks contributed by making mortgages far too easy to acquire, and exercising little to no scrutiny over loan applicants, which led to bad mortgages running rampant. It is easy to understand how this could[...]

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Two Great Bounces!

post from Paper Economy - A US Real Estate Bubble Blog on 03 November 2009 05:12:00 PM. © Paper Economy - A US Real Estate Bubble Blog

The following charts provide a simple comparison between the big stock bounce that occurred in the wake of the DOW crash of 1929 and the bounce we are seeing today in the S&P 500 index.

The method of alignment was simple? take the first definitive up trading day off the bottom of the preceding bear market low and set that as the start of the series? then simply re-base both series to a value of 100 so that they can be compared side-by-side.

The lower bar chart plots the cumulative percentage change since the start of each bounce.

The S&P 500 is up over 44% in a little over 160 trading days? an historically aggressive run with an obvious note of mania to it? and wholly comparable to? even far stronger than? the price movement seen in the 1930s-era DOW rally.

At this point for the 30s-era DOW, the bull-run was over as the bear trend resumed in earnest? today though the Bull is seriously on the move? how long will this boom last?

Only time will tell? But for now, let?s continue to keep a watchful eye?

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Equifax Buys Income, Identity Verification Firm
for $72.5M

post from Housing Wire on 03 November 2009 04:20:01 PM. © Housing Wire

Information solution provider Equifax acquired Rapid Reporting, a Fort Worth, Texas-based national provider of third-party income, identity and employment verification services.Equifax pays $72.5m for the company, which will help the firm provide lenders with more services to control fraud.“More than ever, today’s lenders need better tools to determine creditworthiness before qualifying a loan,” said Trey [...]

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Flagstar Posts $298M Loss, Appoints New Execs

post from Housing Wire on 03 November 2009 04:04:34 PM. © Housing Wire

Flagstar Bancorp (FBC: 0.83 0.00%) lost $298.5m, or $0.64 per share, in Q309, compared with losses of $76.6m in Q209 and $62.1m in Q308.For the first nine months of 2009, the Troy, Mich.-based bank lost $442.2m. In an attempt to improve Flagstar?s situation, the bank?s board of directors appointed Salvatore Rinaldi to executive vice president [...]

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Pending Home Sales Rise 6% in September: NAR

Pending home sales based on signed contracts rose for the eighth consecutive month in September, according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR).The association?s pending sales index increased 6.1% from September to August and is 21.2% higher than September 2008. That?s the largest year-over-year increase and the longest streak of consecutive month-over-month increases since NAR [...]

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Singapore REIT Defaults on $88m CMBS Loan

Saizen Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) defaulted on a ¥8bn (US$88.5m) commercial mortgage-backed securitization (CMBS) loan this week, the Singapore-based firm?s manager announced.YK Shintoku, one of Saizen REIT?s nine tokumei kumiai (TK), or silent partnership operators, held the now-defaulted CMBS loan. While based in Singapore, Saizen REIT?s investments are comprised solely of regional residential properties [...]

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Titanium Solutions Jumps Into REO Space

Titanium Holdings appointed Cary Sternberg as president of its newly formed real estate-owned (REO) subsidiary Excellen REO.The full service REO asset management company offers services to mortgage companies across the nation. Sternberg will manage the strategic direction of the company.In November, Sternberg will begin hiring asset managers to start servicing in January 2010. The new [...]

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