Renters don't buy into condo plan - 2004-01-30
Guadalupe Ortiz says she doesn't require a mortgage lender to tell her that she and her husband wouldn't qualify for a loan to purchase their apartment, which might soon be converted to a condominium.

Like many of the tenants at the 188-unit Southgate Village Apartments in South San Diego, Ortiz and her family live month-to-month, have no credit and work mostly low-paying jobs.
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Akron-area firms erroneously on mortgage broker registration revocation list - 2004-01-30
The Ohio Department of Commerce's Division of Financial Institutions said made an error in placing an Atlanta-based company on its list of 14 mortgage-broker companies that may see their registrations be revoked or not renewed.

Alta Financial Corp., which does business as Alta Financial Corp. of Ohio and has a Wooster branch, should not have been on the list, department spokesman Dennis Ginty said.
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