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Almost everybody knows about Countrywide Financial - the trouble lender that took a loan of more then 4 billions USD, and finally became a reason for a mortgage crisis. Exactly the Bank of America invested the money in stock capital of Countrywide Financial.
Finally in summer 2008 BofA became an official owner of this huge bank and turned into the most powerful mortgage lender in the USA. Both sides had their own advantages in this purchase operation - on one hand Countrywide was saved from financial fail, on the other hand Bank of America got more power as a financial institution.

Nowadays you can find Countrywide bank foreclosures or BofA REO on many internet portals. Many sites give access to foreclosure listings as paid serivice, but you can easily find wellknown web resources where bank foreclosures is in free access including bank owned homes, government foreclosures, HUD houses for sale, tax foreclousres, FHA foreclosures, VA foreclosures, and other types of foreclosure properties. You can visit some of them:
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Take into account, that this operation let the BofA have its own part in 25% of mortgage home loans in the America. The situation described is just one example out of thousands of cases, when bank gets huge advantages after dealing with trouble lenders. These loans are also known as subprime loans, of course this situation attracted a lot of attention, all owners of trouble loans were experiencing a number of investigations. The main source of financial resources for loans is the money saved on deposit accounts by clients. But Countrywide Financial works according the different scheme, it borrows money on the Wall Street, so it gets amount of money enough to invest it in mortgages, and finally sell these loans on secondary market.

These transactions are repeated again and again, which gives the possibility the parts get their profit. This scenario worked without problems until we faced the mortgage crisis. Countrywide Financial got under the control of Bank of America, more over the BofA obtained over 5800 branches located in 31 different states in US.

Also Bank of America controls 700 loan offices and 200 banking centres located all over the United States of America.
Taking into consideration that a lot of borrowers loose their homes at the end, this investment is very profitable operation for Countrywide Financial executives.
The next step of BofA will give a possibility around 260 thousand borrowers with bed debts keep their houses. It will happen owing to modifying more then 40 billion US dollars of mortgages. All this is supposed to happen during the following two years. A big number of clients with problem loans leads to increase of Countrywide foreclosures number.

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