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View items...Homeowner Activists and Attorneys Vindicated After
There's a huge buzz out there among homeowner activists who are feeling vindicated for the hard work they've done over the past couple of years and in many cases even longer. The recent news inundating the headlines of blatant fraud on the part of lenders and servicers has of...
Read moreHow Much is a Dead Peasant Worth?
This post can also be seen at Huffington Post I saw Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story earlier this week and it took me from pissed off to infuriated in the first 30 minutes. After seeing the report on "Dead Peasant Policies" the word "peasant" has been rattling around ...
Read moreIt's all about content
Content can be broken down into a few areas. There are blogs, books, articles, e-books, white papers, etc. Not everyone can generate content, but anyone who has a website needs it. Below are just a few of the area covered. You'll find some samples at the bottom of this post. ...
Read moreMassachusetts Passes Cornerstone Homeowner and Ten
Massachusetts is once again leading the pack in protecting consumers by passing legislation to protect families from getting thrown out of their homes. "An Act to Stabilize Neighborhoods" has been two years in the making and was sponsored by Senator Susan C. Tucker. Tucke...
Read moreWhen Will They Call?
There are no two things more humiliating than interviewing for a job and dating. It’s not easy to be on your game, at your best, and on your best behavior for something that inevitably, at the end of it all, will strip you of your dignity and self respect. The night bef...
Read moreHostgator Sells E-mail
Because of the websites I've built and domain names I own I have thousands of e-mail addresses available to me. It came to me a few years ago that I could use those e-mail addresses when I sign up for certain things to keep track of what happens to my e-mail. So when I sign up...
Read moreKill the Messenger
If you're a blogger, own a blog, read a blog, or hate blogs you've probably heard the story by now about the no longer anonymous blogger, Rosemary Port, who is suing Google for $15 million for outing her to a model she called a "skank" on her blog, "Skanks in NYC." If not,...
Read moreWhere are the Screaming Liberals?
This post can also be seen at Huffington Post For the first time since I can remember I went to bed with a smile with on my face last night. Why? Because Congress knocked down the Public Option despite public opinion and polls showing that 76% of people in this country not onl...
Read moreHomeowners: " Hey Congress, Get Off Your Ass"
This article can also be seen on Huffington Post Richard Neiman, in his Congressional Oversight Panel report called Treasury's goal for home loan modifications at 25,000 modifications a week "robust". By those calculations there should be close to 300,000 homeowners with loan ...
Read moreDemocrats Throw Life Line to Unemployed in the Mid
While the GOP is putting legislation in place to shove homeowners further underwater, Democrats are scrambling to throw them a lifeline. Barney Frank (D-MA), Chair of the House Financial Services Committee, and Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), a ranking member of the Committee, spo...
Read moreHow to Ruin a Spammer's Day
So, I got one of those e-mails this morning. You know the kind that looks like it’s from a friend of yours, but it’s some d-bag that got a hold of your friends e-mail or your address book or Facebook friends and sends you a bogus e-mail as if it’s coming from your friend and they...
Read moreGovernment Tactic: Help the Banks by Lying to Home
Last April, when I was at Treasury, I told the Deputy Director of the National Economic Council, Diana Farrell, that the reports treasury was putting up on their web site touting the success of HAMP were crap. I said that in front of thirty people in a Treasury briefing room ...
Read moreNew York Times Norris gets it wrong
This post can also be found at the Huffington Post After reading Chief Financial Correspondent Floyd Norris' blog entry in The New York Times last week it's easy to assume that he's suffering from some weird journalistic version of the Stockholm Syndrome. In his post, "Are Bank...
Read moreMass. Courts to Banks on Foreclosures: The Law Mat
On Friday the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court upheld a controversial decision by Land Court Judge Keith C. Long, who ruled in the case of two Springfield, MA homeowners that the foreclosures were invalid because the mortgages were not officially recorded as being owned by th...
Read moreCounty Register of Deeds Picks Fight with MERS
Article cross posted at Huffington Post About a week ago, John O’Brien, Register of Deeds in Essex County Massachusetts, sent a letter to Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley asking that she look into whether MERS (Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc.) fail...
Read moreWhy Homeowners Aren't Being Heard ... Or Why Congr
In an effort to squash the administration's latest proposed plans for home loan modification, the banking and mortgage industry brought out the big guns and sent Chase Home Lending CEO, David Lowman to Congress with a prepared statement on Tuesday. The administration's lat...
Read moreWindows 7 Here I Come
At about 8:00 PM earlier this evening, after getting home and having dinner I headed up to my desk and XP machine, drew a deep breath and peeled back the shrink wrap from the newly purchased Window 7 box. I've been running XP since before its release while I worked at Adobe a...
Read moreHomeowner Activists: We Told You So
Over the past few weeks many of us with skin in the game have watched as the media finally started covering the foreclosure fiasco. Some homeowner activists saw it as the beginning of a long string of investigative reporting. The rest of us knew that it was only a matter of t...
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