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Mary M. LeDoux Lake Charles, LA

Saxon reduced my interest and increased my principle by over $10,000. I had to agree to the "Modification" or lose my ...

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Lloyd D Knoxville Tn

OOPS the bank could've been making that rent money for 2 years,instead they make me lose everythig ecept my ...

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Jason L. - TN

I never really thought of myself as anyone other than someone who would make his monthly mortgage payments until the ...

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Joy Carter Minor, Moss Point, MS

Early January 2011, I received a call that my home was being entered by people without my permission. The ...

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Rocky & Brenda C. Cave Creek Arizona

As we seek legal counsel (we're pleading for Terry Goddard's help – he only stepped down from his AG post ...

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Michael H. Quay Pahoa, HI

I am still in shock and it seems like a nightmare! ONLY THREE PAYMENTS behind and I also had ...

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Andrea Allan 254 Lyons Plains Rd. Weston, CT.

  I've lost my business, my home, and am in debt.  Also PHH sent in negative 9 times to Experian ...

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Larry Bradshaw, Fort Myers, Florida

  This appears to be clear and convincing evidence of a “conspiracy to commit fraud” (cover up), a fraudulent act ...

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Melissa Ramont, La Mesa, CA

Ok, so my situation is not as devastating as some of the other stories I've seen and heard.  But it ...

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Bob Cape Coral, FL

I called and complained and a week later I had keys sent to me for the new locks.  They ...

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Ron B. - Penn

The whole 8 months of this was just a circus of lost papers, noone at BAC working from the ...

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Perhaps you can look at me as just that; the Devil’s Advocate in as much as this, as one who argues against a program, not as a committed opponent but simply for the sake of argument or to determine the validity of the program and that is HAMP.

When it comes to loan modifications and the whole HAMP Program these days I have become less enthusiastic over a complete and utter failure.  I’ve tried to be up beat, I’ve tried to deal a daily dose of hope in regards to those seeking a loan modification and for what I ask? Too create false sense of security and give a lingering amount of hope to the multitude facing the loss of their homes?  I feel like a liar and a fake and I hate that feeling, I really do because in actuality I feel that I am no better than Congress as I am pandering their lies, promises and shattered pieces of hope. I hate putting on that happy go lucky face and telling those who come here and others that I come in contact with to just keep pushing it will happen and don’t give up however,  I don’t think I can wear the rose colored glasses for one more day.

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It’s going on almost two months now since the home was sold at sheriff sale, well, technically it wasn’t sold, just reverted back to the bank.  We officially moved out as of June 11th, 2010.  I contacted my county auditor to see when and why it had not been transferred and they indicated that I needed to contact the sheriff’s department in regards to the filing of the sale.  I didn’t call because really I don’t care.  I should since I’m sure that our city department has mowed the lawn by now and they will either send me a bill or assess it to the property taxes, which again, I don’t care since I will no longer have to pay the property taxes and if need be, I will pay the city for the mowing.
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The main thing that every political campaign in the United States demonstrates is that the politicians of all parties, despite their superficial enmities, are really members of one great brotherhood. Their principal, and indeed their sole, object is to collar public office, with all the privileges and profits that go therewith. They achieve this collaring by buying votes with other people’s money. No professional politician is ever actually in favor of public economy. It is his implacable enemy, and he knows it. All professional politicians are dedicated wholeheartedly to waste and corruption. They are the enemies of every decent man.”

-         H.L. Mencken (September 12, 1880 -  January 29, 1956)

Well, that paragraph there sum’s it up in a nutshell doesn’t it?  Granted, Mencken wasn’t what one would call politically correct and he did have his flaws, but his satirical (I use this word loosely)  takes on politics and democracy are what I would consider a hoot.

It would seem that those words written by Mencken echo loud and clear today.  I have tried really hard over the last year not to become cynical, but as I was telling a friend the other day, “I really think your cynicism is rubbing off on me.”  I’ve always been the one that saw the glass as half full instead of half empty.  Today, I see the glass and can’t really tell if there’s anything in it at all because it’s so dirty.

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By my calculations, no loan safe and all are up for grabs.  HAMP again is useless, well except for the banks, since the program really is streamlining the foreclosure process.  So HAMP works, for the banks and not the mortgage holder.

Congress again in all of its infinite wisdom is now pursuing the financial reform bill, which I’m going to have to say at this particular moment in time, UMMMM little to late on this party isn’t it?  Seriously?  If Congress had being doing its job to begin with, this entire fiasco would not have happened right?

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So it seems to me every new article that comes out in regards to strategic defaults these days needs to bring up the “morals” of the situation.  I find it comical in the sense that, the banks, mortgage brokers and the likes didn’t seem to take “morals” into account when they started lending money with the creative loans and such to anyone basically who could sign their names and in some instance if they couldn’t sign their name there was someone else that could do it for them.  When you do a mortgage loan with no documentation and give thousands of dollars to Joe Somebody that didn’t have to state any income how’d ya think that situation was gonna come out?  Where were the morals and ethics there?

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My thoughts turn daily now on the belief that We, the American People are being held hostage by the Banks, Wall Street, The Federal Reserve and The Treasury as well.  I’ve read several articles that are implying that perhaps the 1000 point drop on the Dow wasn’t because of someone’s “fat finger”.  Currently there are many “theories” as to why and how this happened.  Hell, even Congress is holding a hearing to make sure this doesn’t happen again.  Even though I am technically not a conspiracy junkie, I am left to ponder that perhaps this wasn’t merely an accident and that the clear and concise nature of this action was to send “The message" of whom the Masters of the Universe truly are.

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movingSo the foreclosure story here comes to and ends on 05/12/2010. That’s the date of the sheriff sale. I had thought more time would pass however; my thinking hasn’t gotten me very far in this life so I’ve decided to stop at least for the time being.

The hardest part of this entire mess is knowledge that you made a HUGE financial mistake and in trying to rectify it, you managed to actually make it worse. Having that baggage on your back just makes the journey that much harder. Not to mention, trudging down that road by yourself when you and your spouse have pulled away emotionally from each other adds to the agony.

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