The U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, in partnership with the Loan Modification Scam Prevention Network, launched PreventLoanScams.org, a new Web site to prevent loan modification scams.

The Loan Modification Scam Prevention Network developed the Web site to provide homeowners with a single destination to report alleged scammers. Complaints filed online are added to a national complaint database and forwarded to the appropriate law enforcement agencies for review. The Network estimates that the Web site will assist approximately 50,000 homeowners affected by scams. Additionally, HUD has directed its local fair housing and housing counseling grantees to begin reporting alleged loan modification scams via the Web site.

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All WINForms® users must upgrade to zipForm® 6 by March 31.  Beginning April 1, access to WINForms® will be terminated.  All users, including those who already upgraded, must renew their user licenses by March 31 to continue receiving access to this valuable resource.  Users who do not renew their license by March 31 will be unable to use the software until they have successfully renewed their user license.

Important facts about zipForm® 6:

• Upgrading from WINForms® to zipForm® 6 is not automatic; users will need to manually upgrade to zipForm® 6.
• Transactions in WINForms® accounts will not be lost when upgrading to zipForm® 6.  All files will be seamlessly migrated to the new zipForm® 6 account.
• On April 1, all C.A.R. members will be required to use the zipForm® 6 program.
• Upgrading is easy.  C.A.R. has provided an abundance of helpful information to assist users.

zipForm® 6 is available in two versions: zipForm® 6 Professional (formerly WINForms Online®) and zipForm® 6 Standard (formerly WINForms Desktop®).  zipForm® 6 Professional enables users to automatically import existing transactions and work online from any computer, and zipForm® 6 Standard allows users to import all previously saved transactions from WINForms® Desktop. Members can upgrade to both zipForm® 6 Professional and zipForm® 6 Standard for free. In addition, the new File Manager enables users to sync all files between their computer and online storage instantly, ensuring users always have the most-recent contracts.

For more information on how to upgrade, click here. C.A.R. also offers a series of free webinars.  For a complete zipForm® 6 webinar schedule, visit http://www.car.org/education/webinars/.

As of April 1st, 2010 LPS Real Estate Group will end Paragon support for Microsoft Internet Explorer ® Version 6 and the Windows 2000 ® Operating System. We recommend the use of Internet Explorer Version 7 or 8 to access the Paragon MLS system. For more information from Microsoft regarding the end-of-support for Windows 2000 and to upgrade to Internet Explorer 8, please visit the following links:

Internet Explorer 6: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ie6/default.mspx

Windows 2000: http://support.microsoft.com/ph/1131#tab0

Sincerely

John Thummel

Senior Systems Support Manager – Team Lead MLS Customer Care

Lender Processing Services Real Estate Group

CCAR has implemented an engaging new way to view open homes on the HOT platform. Click here to see the cooliris gallery of currently published open homes: http://homesopentoday.com/search/cooliris. And now you can take advantage by framing the ‘whitelabel’ version on your website! Simply frame or link to this page from your website: http://wl.homesopentoday.com/search/cooliris