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Get the latest on CUSOs, including a new effort to help the credit challenged get mortgage loans. Pages 22-26.

LOS ANGELES - All indicators show college tuition costs will continue to rise, but members of credit unions who are college students or are parents with children in college have another option to finding the money to pay for higher education. The solution is Trojan Financial Services dba Education Loan...

HERNDON, Va. - CU Realty of VA, MD, DC LLC (CUR LLC), a chapter of parent company CU Realty of Tempe, Ariz., a licensed real estate company, has opened a new full-service real estate CUSO. The new CU Realty program was launched locally in January, and initial results of the...

SAN ANTONIO, Texas - Think there's not a demand for manufactured housing? With the cost of site-built homes skyrocketing nationwide, the popularity of lower-priced manufactured housing is growing, and a wholly-owned CUSO of San Antonio FCU - CU Factory Built Lending LP - is helping members buy those types of...

The Manufactured Housing Institute reports that for the month of December 2004, new HUD Code shipments of manufactured homes were up 11.3% compared to December 2003. Shipments of all HUD code homes for December were higher than a year ago in eight of nine regions and in 20 states. Shipments...

EAGAN, Minn. - Sub-prime mortgage lending is an area credit unions typically have shied away from because of the risk. But some credit union partners of Member Gateways have found a way to minimize the risk and offer their credit union impaired members a mortgage loan by partnering with a...