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New GSE Policy Offers Relief to Underwater Borrowers
February 1, 2013
Charles Wisniowski
Underwater homeowners who have remained current on their payments will be able to relinquish their houses and cancel their debt under the terms of a new GSE policy change to take effect in March.
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