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Manchin Statement on Need to Protect Homeowners from Drastic Flood Insurance Increases
U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) today announced he supports the “Homeowner Flood Insurance Affordability Act” to protect homeowners from paying drastically higher flood insurance costs under the revised version of the National Flood Insurance Pr...
West Virginia Joins 41 States, Territories Urging Congress To Extend The Mortgage Forgiveness Tax...
Attorney General Patrick Morrisey today announced that West Virginia has joined 41 other states and territories in sending a letter today urging Congress to extend the Mortgage Forgiveness Tax Relief Act through at least 2014 in order to continue to he...
Rahall Announces Funding for Mingo County Water System Extension Projects
U.S. Rep. Nick Rahall (D-W.Va.), top Democrat on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee with jurisdiction over water infrastructure programs, Friday announced Federal funds for the construction of the Naugatuck to East Kermit waterline e...
Attorney General Morrisey Urges West Virginians To Keep Their Homes Safe While Traveling For...
Attorney General Patrick Morrisey today urged citizens to be diligent in protecting their homes while they are away for the holidays or out on a hunting trip.
REP. RAHALL AND GOV. TOMBLIN ANNOUNCE FEMA TO PROVIDE WAIVER ALLOWING CITY OF LOGAN...
U.S. Rep. Nick Rahall and Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin today announced the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) provided a waiver to allow the City of Logan to use federal funding to acquire and demolish five residential properties on Pine Street in Log...
Manchin, Rockefeller, Rahall Announce USDA Funding Awarded for Housing Programs in Southern West Virginia
WASHINGTON, D.C. - November 19, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- U.S. Senators Joe Manchin and Jay Rockefeller, along with Rep. Nick Rahall (all D-W.Va.), announced Tuesday the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development has awarded funding to re...
Rahall Lauds Entrepreneurship as Keystone to Region’s Economic Growth
CHARLESTON, W.Va. - November 8, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- At a conference of the thirteen states making up the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC), U.S. Rep. Nick Rahall (D-W.Va.) Thursday underscored the value of Federal investments in Appalachia t...
Rahall Introduces Legislation to Halt Flood Insurance Rate Increases
Washington, DC - October 31, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- U.S. Rep. Nick J. Rahall is introducing legislation today that would suspend the flood insurance rate increases that millions of homeowners are now subject to. At the beginning of the month, part...
Attorney General Morrisey Warns Homeowners to Be Cautious of Letters That Urge Them to...
CHARLESTON - October 16, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey is warning West Virginia residents to be cautious of companies offering to sell them a copy of the deed to their home
ROCKEFELLER, MANCHIN, RAHALL ANNOUNCE SIGNIFICANT FUNDING FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND HOMELESSNESS PREVENTION
WASHINGTON, D.C. - September 9, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Senators Jay Rockefeller and Joe Manchin, along with Congressman Nick Rahall, today announced more than $23 million in federal funding from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)...
ROCKEFELLER, MANCHIN, RAHALL ANNOUNCE RENTAL ASSISTANCE FOR VETERANS STRUGGLING WITH HOMELESSNESS
WASHINGTON D.C. - August 27, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Senators Jay Rockefeller and Joe Manchin, along with Congressman Nick Rahall, today announced more than $105,000 in federal funding to Raleigh County to provide rental assistance for homeless vete...
Manchin, Rockefeller, Rahall Announce Rental Assistance For Veterans Struggling with Homelessness
WASHINGTON D.C. - August 23, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Senators Joe Manchin and Jay Rockefeller, along with Congressman Nick Rahall, today announced more than $105,000 in federal funding to Raleigh County to provide rental assistance for homeless vete...
ROCKEFELLER, MANCHIN, RAHALL ANNOUNCE $3.6M TO PREVENT VETERAN HOMELESSNESS IN WV
WASHINGTON, D.C. - July 15, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Senators Jay Rockefeller and Joe Manchin, along with Congressman Nick Rahall (all D-WV), today announced $3,657,708 in federal funding to help prevent and end veteran homelessness in West Virginia.
Rep. McKinley Continues Fight to Provide Safe Housing for Homeless Veterans
WASHINGTON, D.C. - July 10, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today, Rep. David B. McKinley, P.E. (R-WV) testified before the House Veterans’ Affairs Subcommittee on Health on his Safe Housing for Homeless Veterans Act (H.R. 2065).
ROCKEFELLER, RAHALL, MANCHIN ANNOUNCE HUD FUNDING FOR HOUSING COUNSELING
WASHINGTON, D.C. - June 18, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- U.S. Senator Jay Rockefeller, along with Rep. Nick Rahall and Senator Joe Manchin (all D-W.Va.), Tuesday announced that federal funding has been awarded to support housing counseling services to ex...
ROCKEFELLER, MANCHIN ANNOUNCE RENTAL ASSISTANCE FOR VETERANS STRUGGLING WITH HOMELESSNESS
WASHINGTON D.C. - June 6, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Senators Jay Rockefeller and Joe Manchin today announced a federal funding award to the Charleston-Kanawha Housing Authority to provide rental assistance for homeless veterans
More than 2,600 West Virginians to Receive Checks from National Mortgage Settlement
CHARLESTON - June 5, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Many West Virginians who experienced a foreclosure sale between Jan. 1, 2008, and Dec. 31, 2011, may be receiving a check in the mail for approximately $1,480 over the next few weeks from the National Mor...
Rep. McKinley Reintroduces Bipartisan Bill Protecting America’s Veterans
Washington, D.C. - May 22, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today, Reps. David B. McKinley, P.E., (R-WV) and Grace Napolitano (D-CA), reintroduced the Safe Housing for Homeless Veterans Act (H.R. 2065), a bill that would require veterans’ homeless shelters...
Manchin, Rockefeller Announce Funding For Assistance to Prevent Homelessness
WASHINGTON, D.C. - May 9, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Senators Jay Rockefeller and Joe Manchin today announced more than $181,780 in federal funding for local housing agencies to help homeless individuals and families access permanent and transitional h...
Rahall Announces Funding for Homeless Housing Assistance
BECKLEY, W.Va. - May 7, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- U.S. Rep. Nick Rahall (D-W.Va.) Friday announced the Greenbrier County Housing Authority has been awarded more than $155,000 to offer permanent supportive housing for disabled homeless individuals and ...
West Virginia Banks Launch 2013 Mortgage Grants Program
Charleston, W.Va. - April 24, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Federal Home Loan Bank of Pittsburgh (FHLBank) and three West Virginia Banks – CNB Bank Inc., WesBanco Bank and West Union Bank – had some good news today for first-time homebuyers: they ...
ROCKEFELLER, MANCHIN ANNOUNCE FEDERAL FUNDING FOR TWO ORGANIZATIONS IN WV TO PROVIDE AFFORDABLE HOUSING
WASHINGTON, D.C. - March 5, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Senators Jay Rockefeller and Joe Manchin today announced $173,125 in federal funding for two nonprofit organizations in West Virginia to support their efforts to provide affordable housing and hom...
Six Southern WV Localities Selected for Blueprint Communities
Beckley, WV - February 4, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Blueprint Communities initiative, delivered to 10 West Virginia communities by the Federal Home Loan Bank of Pittsburgh (FHLBank) in 2007, is coming back to the Mountain State in 2013.
Texas Law Firm, Murray LLP, Agrees to End its Controversial Services to 5,222 West...
CHARLESTON - November 29, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Attorney General Darrell McGraw announced today that Murray LLP, a Texas law firm, agreed to permanently discontinue offering a service to West Virginia foreclosure victims that a lawsuit filed by Mc...
RAHALL: VETERANS OWED BEST POSSIBLE ASSISTANCE WHEN THEY RETURN HOME
WELCH, W.Va. - November 13, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- In remarks delivered Monday afternoon at the annual Veterans and Businessmen’s luncheon at the National Guard Armory in Welch, U.S. Rep. Nick Rahall (D-W.Va.) called for enhancing critical progra...
RAHALL WARNS AGAINST FEDERAL BUDGET CUTS THAT THREATEN REGION’S ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
JENNIES CREEK, W.Va. - November 9, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- At the opening ceremony to mark the completion of two major water extension projects in the Mingo County Public Service District, U.S. Rep. Nick J. Rahall (D-WV) Thursday underscored the val...
Attorney General McGraw Sues Texas Firm, Murray LLP, to Halt Exploration of Consumers Who...
CHARLES TOWN - November 2, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- In April, 49 state attorneys general finalized an historic $25 billion settlement with the five largest mortgage servicers, intended to end the abuses that drove tens of thousands of consumers into ...
West Virginia Homeowners Helped as a Result of Attorney General Darrell McGraw’s Outreach Effort
CHARLESTON - October 29, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- For Putnam county homeowner Regina Laury, there is no doubt that Attorney General Darrell McGraw’s mortgage assistance outreach program is working. Laury, who filed a complaint with General McGraw a...
ROCKEFELLER, MANCHIN & RAHALL APPLAUD FEMA FOR GRANTING 16 ADDITIONAL WEST VIRGINIA COUNTIES INDIVIDUAL...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - October 24, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Senators Jay Rockefeller and Joe Manchin, along with Congressman Nick Rahall, today applauded the Federal Emergency Management Agency for granting 16 additional West Virginia counties individual...
Attorney General McGraw Darrell McGraw Warns Against Mortgage Settlement Related Scams
Charleston - October 12, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Attorney General Darrell McGraw warns West Virginia borrowers who lost their homes to foreclosure to avoid scammers offering help with the National Mortgage Settlement. McGraw reminds all consumers ne...