Since the last twelve months hundreds of house owners have been knocking on the doors of Stephani Rojas – a mortgage counselor. They are desperately seeking help as foreclosures close in on them. The majority comes when they are just about to be evicted. There is a sense of shame for having failed their families [...]

Lloyd Segal, a mortgage broker, in a timely move has authored a book full of punch to motivate borrowers into action against foreclosures. For those caught in the net the situation is not only agonizing but also insulting and traumatizing apart from being a economic catastrophe. With foreclosures marching on with the highest peak in [...]

According to a survey in 2006 Detroit recorded the highest high-cost mortgages in the previous year. A community activist organization, Acorn, has been studying in depth the fall out of mortgages. They have concluded that relatively more Afro-American and Hispanic borrowers have been victims of high-cost mortgage schemes in comparison to the whites. Thus more [...]

Gang and drug parties have become the bane in Manteca. At one time people had thronged to light the fires of their hearths in the Central Valley in search of their dream homes. A curse seems to have brought down the pox of foreclosures – houses with neglected overgrowth and broken boarded windows are inviting [...]