Bay Area Homeowner Writes to Say Thank You to Mandelman Matters and Bank of...
Tashakkur! “Tashakkur.” It’s how you say “thank you” in Afghanistan. And it’s appropriate because the homeowner who wrote to me today to thank me for helping get his loan modified by Bank of...
View ArticleWhat I Know About Loan Modifications – 2014
Regardless of what anyone else wants to say about getting a loan modified, it remains by far a homeowner’s best chance of keeping his or her home if at risk of foreclosure. That’s not an opinion…...
View ArticleA San Clemente Homeowner Writes to Say Thank You for help with Bank of...
A San Clemente homeowner who first met me last summer when they came to LA to attend a Bank of America loan modification event for homeowners. They’d been thought it all and then some and...
View ArticleHelping a Homeowner Succeed with Bank of America/SPS Loan Mod is Like Mardi...
I often feel like the homeowners who contact me for help become my friends along the way. But then, their loans get modified… and I don’t here from them anymore. In the early days it felt a little...
View ArticleCNN.com Reports Receiving “Overwhelming Number” of Negative Reviews of Obama...
June 28, 2009 CNNMoney.com reported today that they’ve received an overwhelming number of negative reviews from nearly 500 people who wrote in about their experiences trying to obtain a loan...
View ArticleFinally, Housing Market Analysts Starting to Get It
Well, I don’t know about you, but for me it’s been a long time coming… Finally, it appears, housing market analysts are publicly recognizing that housing prices are NOT COMING BACK. CNN/Money.com has...
View ArticleLook What Alan Zibel of Associated Press Finally Figured Out
January 17, 2010 Here’s how Alan “Scoop” Zibel’s story for the AP starts: WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s plan to fix the foreclosure crisis has been a dud, putting the housing market recovery at...
View ArticleFDIC Chair Sheila Bair Warns Senate Committee about “Millions of Infected...
Of all of the Washington D.C. “players” that I’ve come to know over the last few years, there is no one that I have vacillated about more than FDIC Chair Sheila Bair. There have been times when I...
View ArticleCNN.com Reports Receiving “Overwhelming Number” of Negative Reviews of Obama...
June 28, 2009 CNNMoney.com reported today that they’ve received an overwhelming number of negative reviews from nearly 500 people who wrote in about their experiences trying to obtain a loan...
View ArticleFinally, Housing Market Analysts Starting to Get It
Well, I don’t know about you, but for me it’s been a long time coming… Finally, it appears, housing market analysts are publicly recognizing that housing prices are NOT COMING BACK. CNN/Money.com has...
View ArticlePlease Stop Bernanke’s Transparency – He’s Frightening the Children
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke did something the media is describing as being unprecedented… he held a televised meeting at which he read some Fed-type talking points and answered some...
View ArticleIf You Think the Meltdown Was the Fault of Homeowners, Think Again…
If you’re thinking that our economic crisis was in some way the fault of homeowners who couldn’t afford their mortgages, please consider the following: At the end of 2007, there were roughly $1.4...
View ArticleCNN.com Reports Receiving “Overwhelming Number” of Negative Reviews of Obama...
June 28, 2009 CNNMoney.com reported today that they’ve received an overwhelming number of negative reviews from nearly 500 people who wrote in about their experiences trying to obtain a loan...
View ArticleFinally, Housing Market Analysts Starting to Get It
Well, I don’t know about you, but for me it’s been a long time coming… Finally, it appears, housing market analysts are publicly recognizing that housing prices are NOT COMING BACK. CNN/Money.com has...
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