Limiting abuse and opportunism by mortgage servicers

Housing Policy Debate

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 753-784

  Eggert, Kurt ^a  

^a CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mortgage servicers; Securitization; Subprime and predatory lending

Indexed keywords

EID: 26044460834     PISSN: 10511482     EISSN: 10511482     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10511482.2004.9521519     Document Type: Article

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