American youth has been sold a bill of goods, get that college education, you will make more money, it will pay off in the long term, buy now, pay later, get student loans! Lenders even market to unemployed people, borrow our student loan, get that degree that leads to employment! Yet, more college graduates are…
“We can settle your debt for pennies on the dollar!” You don’t hear those ads as much as we used to, because the federal government finally clamped down with FTC regulations 7 months ago. “Settle your debts for 60, 70 as much as 85% off!” What these debt settlement companies left off their spiel was…
The creditor lobby would have you believe that people who file bankruptcy are the ones committing fraud. They sold the bankruptcy law reforms as a way to stop the rampant fraud going on, people filing bankruptcy to skip out on their debts, debts which they could afford to pay. That was the company line. Debt…
Its later than you think. What the economists call the “macro” factors are bad. Leading the way? Our friends, the banks! Mortgage companies continue to lie about their books and records. And won’t show them to the government without being forced. Some of these issues have come up in the MERS and robo-signing scandals. Photo…
Less than two years ago, Michigan foreclosure law was changed in the face of the greatest foreclosure crisis since the Great Depression. Mortgage companies were required to send an initial foreclosure notice that gave the homeowner the opportunity to request a modification. If he did so, the house went off the foreclosure track for 90…
(image from hikojune.xanga.com website) The means test was made law in 2005, at the behest of the creditor lobby to stop abusive bankruptcy filings, which were supposedly costing the average American family $400 per year.. An obtuse formula is used to weed out those who supposedly can afford to pay something to their…
Second mortgages were marketed as home equity loans, or home equity lines of credit, partly to conceal that they were liens on your house, just like the first mortgage. I can’t tell you how many times I would ask a client, How many mortgages on your home? To be told, just one, and we have…
