Comments on: UPDATED! Help Daniel’s mom keep her home

By: Jeffrey Olson

Jeffrey Olson — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:50:23 +0000

@Katie Bethell, ACORN is a corrupt organization that is sucking up tax dollars promoting mortgages for people that cant afford them. I am a Real Estate Appraiser that has seen first hand many instances of this. They should open up there books for examination along with all there tax dollar hiding affiliates. Open the books then we will talk

By: Katie Bethell

Katie Bethell — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:54:55 +0000

@Taylor McKenzie, Thank you! This is great.

By: Taylor McKenzie

Taylor McKenzie — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:09:03 +0000

You can get a free Homeowner’s Guide on President Obama’s “Making Home Affordable” plan at http://MortgageCreditTrauma.com.

This plan outlines the rules and eligibility guidelines for 1st & 2nd loan modifications as well as giving a Loan Comparison Chart for Countrywide/BofA, CitiGroup/CitiMortgage, IndyMac Fed Bank and JP Morgan who is also accepting Washington Mutual and EMC Mortgage Corp customers.

Hope this helps!

By: Katie Bethell

Katie Bethell — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:46:03 +0000

@Lawson, Thanks for your comment. The Making Home Affordable program merely requires that banks who sign on talk to people before foreclosing on their homes. It is an optional program that 80% of the loan servicing industry has signed on to, and it has already been shown that re-negotiating loans, rather than foreclosing, actually saves everyone money.

By: Katie Bethell

Katie Bethell — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:45:20 +0000

@Beth, Thanks for your comment. To clarify, we are an independent organization advocating on behalf of our 1.2 million members on issues that impact women and families.

We have partnered with ACORN to do this important work to help people through the foreclosure crisis, where an estimated 2.4 million people are expected to lose their homes this year. 80% of the loan servicing industry has signed on to the Making Home Affordable program, and it has already been shown that re-negotiating loans, rather than foreclosing, actually saves everyone money.

By: Beth

Beth — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:08:09 +0000

It’s good to see that many of the people commenting understand that Daniel’s Mom is responsible for her mortgage. The American taxpayer is not. Perhaps people are finally starting to wake up and pay attention to what our government is doing.

It was also good to learn that ACORN is your parent organization. FWIW, I feel completely cheated that my tax dollars go to fund such rediculous partisan politics. Pulling at Mom’s heartstrings with situations like this is no longer working. Yeah!

By: Lawson

Lawson — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 03:25:28 +0000

I am so sorry for Daniels mom. I wish I could help. But I totally disagree with your position on this one. NO ONE should be forced to take government bail out money from the Government.

I generally disagree with my president on most all of his bail out plans including forcing Corporate CEO’s out and placing privatly owned companies in the controle of the federal government.

While I feel for Daniel’s mom. Having the US bail everyone out is not the answer.

I have requested to be removed from your list. This is obviously a very left wing group and I am for personal responsibility, not government expansion.

By: Charles J Gervasi

Charles J Gervasi — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:28:50 +0000

I generally agree with gov’t activities to help the poor, but this idea that people who don’t pay their mortgage should just keep living in their house is crazy. You have got to be alienating just about everyone except for those who don’t believe in private property.

By: ELaina McGuire

ELaina McGuire — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:06:43 +0000

I know Anna Donahue Ministries is reaching out to widows…

By: Jackie

Jackie — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:27:24 +0000

Unfortunately I am with IndyMac and OneWest, and I too have submitted papers for a Loan Modification…and I was told that they did NOT take bailout money Can you check this? You say in the article that they took bailout money. They claim they did NOT. I am a Senior citizen and do NOT want to lose my home…I applied for Obama’s Program too, and I am awaiting their response. While waiting tho…I am sending them half of my mortgage every month. And it will slow down any foreclosure process and when a whole mortgage is accumulated…they apply it to the last unpaid mortage. It shows good faith, and NOT like you are trying to avoid your responsibility. Also, that woman can file Bankruptcy(Chapter 7)and then pull the house out of the Bankruptcy or file a Chapter 13…that will slow it down also. Lastly, she can ask for them to produce the Original Loan papers…which they do NOT have since it has been sold sooo many times. And they cannot foreclose Legally unless they have it. Most people don’t know this…so they lose their home without asking for it…and if you don’t know the laws…they can do anything to us and get away with it. I have done a LOT of homework and I am a Credit/Debt/Tax advisor for over 20 years.
Jackie