1. ShameTheBanks.org is Gaining Momentum

Also up at the Huffington Post Since www.shamethebanks.org was launched on March 23 and announced on the Huff Post, the site has received thousands of visitors. Homeowners have been submitting stories, commenting on articles and stories, a

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2. ShametheBanks.org -- Tell Your Story

You can also see this story on Huffington Post Why ShametheBanks.org? Because it's been over a year since the Obama Administration and Treasury announced the Making Home Affordable plan, also known as HAMP. The plan was supposed to potential

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3. Loan Modifications: A $4 Billion Con Game

This post can also been see at The Huffington Post Since last year nearly 1 million struggling homeowners facing foreclosure have been offered trial modifications on homes that have depreciated in value. The modifications reduce the monthly payments

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4. New 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 Syn

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5. Shaming the Shameless?

Well, Treasury's at it again. They're going to shame the banks into modifying mortgages. Geithner may even put his hands on his hips and wave his finger at them. Maybe we'll get lucky and he'll rattle off another profanity-laced-tirade like he did to

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6. Who's Fault?

Until the 1930’s, buying a home required a down payment equal to a quarter or a third of its value.  Mortgages had to be repaid in about a half dozen years.  Banks then didn’t want to accept smaller down payments as it would attract more borrow

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7. Loans Invented by Greedy Bastages

In October 2008, Peter Schiff wrote an op-ed for the San Diego Union-Tribune titled, simply enough, “Stop Paying Your Mortgage.”After supposedly bailing out the fat cats on Wall Street, no politician wants to be accused of evicting struggling fam

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8. Ocwen Bank Fun With Numbers

This article can also be seen at the Huffington Post Huffington Post ran a story last week about Ocwen Financial patting themselves on the back for the amount of delinquent mortgages they've modified using the Making Home Affordable plan (MHA). Acco

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9. Deck Stacked Against Homeowners

This post can also be seen at Huffington Post Arianna Huffington wrote an article last week on how the deck is stacked against homeowners when it comes to legal representation in foreclosures and mortgage related cases. In the article she addresses

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10. Deutsche Bank Protest in Boston

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11. Badbizfinder on the Attack

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12. Badbizfinder Revisited

Back in April I wrote a piece about 2nd Chance Negotiations, a loan modification company (now working under the name Superior Mortgages). I wrote about them because I was scammed. I turned to them because they were recommended by trusted people in th

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13. Reach Around Please

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14. Ocwen Does Indeed Suck

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15. Making Home Unaffordable

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16. Badbizfinder Dejected and Hurt

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17. Superior Scum Bags

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18. 2nd Chance Rip Off

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