“Housing Angels,” an Arizona-based operation, appear to be onto something smart.

The program connects distressed homeowners with cash-laden investors (referred to as “Angels”), facilitating short sales to avoid foreclosure situations. But the sale is only temporary.

That’s because the “Angels” then rent the properties back to the original owners at reduced price. And when the homeowners are back on their feet financially, they have the opportunity to buy back their homes for much less than what they originally owed.

It’s a “win-win” solution that AZFamily.com illustrates in the following example:

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Big Brother really is watching. And his name is Mark Zuckerberg Facebook.

If you think you can just go off the grid and escape your mortgage obligations, or at least make such an effort to the delay the inevitable, then you better completely disconnect.

No longer are phone calls, emails and random site visits the only means that lenders will leverage to track down homeowners in default. It seems that several governments are going digital, sending foreclosure notices to not-so-hard-to-find people on the world’s leading social network.

The Economic Times reports that a lawyer from Australia led the charge about two years ago. And now courts in New Zealand, Canada and the United Kingdom are following suit (pun intended).

Check out an example of how it works:

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The airwaves and Internet are abuzz with Apple’s announcements today at the annual Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, California.

Company CEO Steve Jobs touched on several issues, but none more intriguing than Apple’s cloud-based computing service, iCloud, which essentially stores all your digital information from several sources in one convenient, accessible and secure location.

Cloud technology is not new, but it is emerging. That means you can expect to hear about it more often, especially after today, if you haven’t already. It’s only a matter of time before you are introduced to it firsthand, whether it’s by your own doing or through business with others.

We decided, therefore, to take a look at cloud computing and how it can positively influence your homebuying experience moving forward through the lens of a real estate agent.

Check it out:

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Losing a home to foreclosure can be devastating.

Heaping helpings of financial stress and truckloads of uncertainty about what the future holds can break people down and even tear apart families.

U.S. News and World Report today provides seven helpful tips to help distressed homeowners cope under these emotionally-charged circumstances.

Check them out:

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