Foreclosure.com today announced the winners of its 2011 scholarship program, which rewards five current college students with a total of $9,000 to put toward their higher educations.

More than 10,000 current college students nationwide answered the call during the 2011 Foreclosure.com Scholarship Program, submitting essays of 800 to 1,000 words or more that answered the following question:

“You have acquired $150,000 in cash to be used specifically for a distressed real estate purchase such as foreclosures. Outline a detailed strategy that ensures the maximum return on investment, whether it is in terms of financial profit or personal satisfaction … or both.”

Cindy Clinton, a freshman at Parsons – The New School located in New York, N.Y., however, was voted to the head of the class by our panel of third-party judges, winning the $5,000 top prize.

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Foreclosure.com today reminded college students nationwide who are enrolled in undergraduate programs that the deadline to submit essays for its 2011 scholarship program is approaching quickly on Dec. 1, 2011.

Foreclosure.com encourages all students (high school students, graduate students and law students are excluded), regardless of major, to apply for the scholarships, which total $9,000 and are divided among five qualified, winning entrants.

The 2011 Foreclosure.com Scholarship Program essay topic is as follows:

“You have acquired $150,000 in cash to be used specifically for a distressed real estate purchase. Outline a detailed strategy that ensures the maximum return on investment, whether it is in terms of financial profit or personal satisfaction … or both.”

Entries are required to be original and be at least 800 words in length and no more than 2,000. Qualified students must visit the Foreclosure.com scholarship page, fill out the entry form and agree to the scholarship rules to enter the contest.

For complete scholarship details and to enter today visit Foreclosure.com (http://www.foreclosure.com/scholarship) prior to the deadline on Dec. 1, 2011.

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America’s number one source for the most up-to-date distressed real estate information to provide national foreclosure listings to the industry’s leading interactive social and business networking site.

Foreclosure.com today announced that it will power the foreclosure channel on RealtyJoin.com, an online networking resource that helps real estate investors, service providers and other professionals find relevant opportunities and connect with the people they need.

Real estate professionals and other website visitors can easily access the listings free for a limited time at http://www.realtyjoin.com/foreclosure-listing/.

“It’s no secret that foreclosures represent tremendous investment opportunities for homebuyers and investors to make – or save – large sums of money,” said Stephen Chip, director of business development, Foreclosure.com. “First-time homebuyers, experienced investors and even agents, among others, want to search for the best foreclosure deals in their areas quickly and efficiently. And they can now do that seamlessly at RealtyJoin.com as a result of this partnership.”

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Foreclosure.com today revealed a comprehensive menu of money-making affiliate tools and widgets that enable real estate agents and other website owners to integrate its dynamic nationwide foreclosure and investment property listings database into their websites.

Foreclosure.com, which partners with many of the largest names in the online real estate world, as well as individual Realtors® and small- to mid-sized online destinations, provides affiliates with small slices of customized code that they can add to their websites, which pulls content from its database of more than 2 million distressed real estate listings.

“Overnight, a local real estate agent can enhance his or her website with millions of monetized listings,” said Stephen Chip, Foreclosure.com Director of Business Development. “We provide our affiliates with an awesome selection of one-of-a-kind solutions that leverage our unrivaled data.”

Our creative suites of affiliate tools and solutions include, but are not limited to:

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Popular program returns after wildly successful campaigns in 2009 and 2010 awarded $18,000 in educational grants to financially-assist 10 students

Foreclosure.com today announced that it will once again reward five college students with scholarships who can best provide a solution(s) to its latest essay topic for 2011.

The subject of the Foreclosure.com Scholarship Program 2011 is as follows:

“You’ve acquired $150,000 in cash to be used specifically for a distressed real estate purchase. Outline a detailed strategy that ensures the maximum return on investment, whether it’s in terms of financial profit or personal satisfaction … or both.”

Foreclosure.com, which received thousands of entries from students during its scholarship programs in 2009 and 2010, will accept written essays/plans (800-word minimum, 2,000-word maximum) through its website (http://www.foreclosure.com/scholarship) from Jan. 1, 2011, to Dec. 1, 2011, which is nine months longer than the previous two programs.

Five winners will be selected at the conclusion of the contest and will share $9,000 in allotted scholarship funds. The top prize is a $5,000 scholarship and four $1,000 grants will be awarded to the runners up.

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