crippled starting tomorrow afternoon. of course, we ll keep you posted, bring you the very latest from the fox news extreme weather center. gretchen: all right. thank you. steve: the boston blizzard. gretchen: i was going to go skiing on saturday. maybe have to wait until sunday. steve: you can go skiing at your house. gretchen: well, yes. if i fix the hole in my roof. anyway, time to check back in with real estate expert bob massi. i need you, bob. he s at rebuilding your dreams seminar in fort myers flax fellow, one of the hardest hit cities affected by the housing crisis. what s going on down there now? at the royal palm yacht club where it s 81 degrees, i hate to tell you that. we have questions from our audience. i asked my hairdresser to come and ask a couple of questions. [ laughter ] see what i m talking about. gretchen: very cute. first question is, who does your hair? you do. [ laughter ] that s mr. bud. second question, if i inherit a property that s unde
i negotiate with the lender prior to probate? the problem is until you re appointed a personal representative of the estate, until you re appointed an executor of the estate, you have no standing, bud, to talk to anybody about that property. so you usually will be appointed, for example, special administrator gives you authority to talk about the property and ultimately you have to negotiate a new loan for that property. the question is, why would you want something under water? that s the deal. i got scissors for you, we ll talk later. take care. okay. let s talk to susan. come on over here. thank you for being here. hi, bob. the lenders have their back room deals that they ve made with the government. the government has made these back room deals and we re kept in the dark as homeowners. is there any type of advocacy group that we can bond together and have a fair shot in this war? one of the things we try to do rebuilding your dreams is sort of put this force together and educ
tire, whatever they said real quick. but everyone has an excuse but rarely do people put all the excuses together. steve: until today. gretchen: each week we get hundreds of real estate questions from you asking how we can help you rebuild our dreams. this week our real estate expert bob hitting the road to try to answer. he is in fort myers, florida, where he s holding a free seminar. good morning to you, bob. what do you have for us today? i m in fort myers. terrific cloud. they have been wonderful down here. love fox & friends. love fox news. we re going to be talking about how we got here, where we re going, what the future is from lending to the real estate industry. the future of real estate in america. how the present situation is going to get worse and maybe better at times. we ll cover all those issues, take questions from the audience. the next three hours to try
to inform everybody viewing this as to what is going on. steve: bob, huge crowd behind you. all good-looking people. this place is spectacular. this yacht club has been wonderful. the people are great. the hospitality is great. really we re very, very fortunate for being here. we thank the people for coming out so early. we have a lot to cover but we have a lot to talk about that help us understand this disaster of the past few years. gretchen: bob will answer all your questions every hour. the seminar goes from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. eastern. we ll be back in touch with you in about 27 minutes, bob. we could learn more today about what took so long for help to arrive in benghazi, libya. outgoing secretary of defense leon panetta expected to testify at 10
it goes until 9:00 o clock eastern time. bob will be back with you shortly. thank you. thank you. gretchen: let s get to your headlines. we re hearing that a nato helicopter has crashed in afghanistan. officials are not revealing where it went down. a taliban spokesman claims it crashed in the kapisa province. nato says all crew members survived. no word what caused the crash. we could learn more about what took so long for help to arrival in benghazi on the day of the terrorist attack that left four americans dead. leon panetta and general martin dempsey affect to do testify this morning on capitol hill. last we re panetta said the u.s. didn t have enough time to respond. the man accused of trying to blow up the federal reserve in new york city expected to plead guilty today to terror charges. officials say he tried to blow up a van with 1,000 pounds of explosives outside of that building, but luckily the explosives were fake. part of an f.b.i. sting. he is charged with attemp