FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2012

2012 - YEAR IN REVIEW HOMEOWNERS FACING FORECLOSURE

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MAY 2012
California widow sues Wells Fargo over foreclosure that pushed her husband to suicide For Oriane and Norman Rousseau, their hopes of keeping the modest California house that had been their dream home ended with a loud noise while Oriane was in the kitchen. She rushed to the bedroom, unsure of what had happened. But when the part-time nurse smelled sulphur, she understood. Opening the door Oriane saw her husband on the bed with his head wrapped in a blanket. I saw blood on the wall. I lifted up the comforter a little and then I lost it, Oriane told the Guardian in an interview. Normans suicide on May 13 was the.

Foreclosure Photo Exhibit Sheds Light On Housing Crisis Eleven months after Brandie Barbiere stopped paying the mortgage on her Milliken, Colo., home, her husband found out when he returned from work to see their possessions piled on the front lawn. As a sheriff's deputy supervised the Oct. 5, 2011, eviction, he confronted his wife and wrestled with his anger. A few minutes later he spotted photographer John Moore. "Who the hell are you?" the husband exclaimed.

Fighting Foreclosure Together he seven-month campaign brought together activists and community members across entrenched and often irreconcilable political and ideological lines, unifying those pushing for a complete overhaul of the capitalist system with those advocating for reform such as widespread principal reduction. The coalition itself is no small victory. Nationally, various housing campaigns can be divided on strategies and goals, with some groups focusing on home takeovers.

Lawyers prey on foreclosure-facing homeowners in San Fernando Valley and beyond Suspecting fraud, the Van Nuys resident hired a lawyer to sort things out. That only made things worse. The attorney told her there was indeed fraud, and promised to sue the bank and get her a new loan. She paid him $8,000 upfront and he advised her to stop making her mortgage payments while the matter was being pursued in court. That turned out to be very bad advice. Now, the attorney has been disbarred.

Mississippi Woman Foreclosed Home

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The foreclosure crisis just resulted in a very expensive mix-up for one Mississippi resident. Terry Jordan was sold the wrong foreclosed home by her realtor and wasn't informed until after she had spent thousands of dollars on renovations, WREG 3 reports. Her realtor then admitted she had actually been sold the house a few feet away, one half the size and full of mold. Mississippi is far from one of the more dense foreclosure landscapes in the country.

An ugly foreclosure story, starring Bank of America Dirma Rodriguez had five minutes to gather her things and vacate the West Adams house she and her severely disabled daughter had lived in for more than 25 years. As a property manager changed the locks, Rodriguez fluttered back and forth from the yard where a pile of stuff lay by the kitchen stove to her car, where her daughter, Ingrid Ortiz, sat screaming and crying. How Rodriguez and Ortiz ended up in.

The Long Wait: Surviving Foreclosure in Brooklyn On the third floor of the Brooklyn Supreme Court, the list goes up every morning. The daily record of scheduled foreclosure mediation meetings lists each case, along with the corresponding plaintiff, defendant and the past number of conferences. The list is posted outside two rooms where the meetings are held ordinary courtrooms that have become battlegrounds. D

71-Year-Old California Mom, Faces Eviction On Mother's Day California mom Sheri Prizant faces the possibility of being evicted from her home of 35 years at on Sunday, MSNBC reports. Prizant alleges that she and her late husband were duped into a bad loan, and that they couldnt keep up with the $5,000 per month payments alongside his medical bills and their fixed income. "I want to cry," Prizant told MSNBC. "My whole life has really been in this house." Though seniors have long been targets of mortgage fraud and other deception, the housing crisis further exacerbated the problem.