Coraopolis, Pa., Mortgage Settlement Firm Experiences Robust Business after Spinoff - 2004-02-14
After devoting a decade helping to build Lender's Service into one of the biggest players in the mortgage processing industry, Fran Azur left the company in 1993 to feed his independent spirit and launch something new.

It didn't take long for Azur's company, ATM Corp. of America, to become a giant in its own right. The Coraopolis-based concern, located not far from Lender's Moon offices, employs 650 and bills more than $50 million a year in mortgage settlement services.
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Family loans a good way to shun estate tax - 2004-02-14
You may be thinking, "Hey, the estate tax is withering away. ... And even if it doesn't shrink completely, I'm not worth enough to care."

Currently, the rate, fixed for the life of the loan, would be 1.62 percent on a loan of three years or less, 3.44 percent on one of three to nine years, and 4.94 percent on one with a term over nine years. You can't beat those rates at a bank or mortgage company.
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