Comments on: AVVO – Saddest Housing Story in Florida Will Win Legal Counsel to Fight Foreclosure

By: lisamarie

lisamarie — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 03:05:11 +0000

I think my story could have for sure been in the running but its a long, long, story with many twist and turns. I really am starting to believe my case will never go any further anyway due to ALL my original mortage documents, note and any assignments are (gone????) all my paperwork just disappeared off the face of this planet! Now whats left is a made up assignment that apparently fell from the sky. I’m so fed up with this mess. But good luck in all your doing, even one house saved makes all the difference in the world to a family that does not deserve to be put out on the street. God bless you.

By: Imanda Waldon

Imanda Waldon — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:52:55 +0000

In reply to Conrad from Avvo. Congrats to Semifinalists! Very disappointed we were not in the running however, maybe you could review our story and recommend an attorney that could help us. Thank you. Imanda Waldon

By: Conrad from Avvo

Conrad from Avvo — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 21:19:24 +0000

Interesting responses to this story.

I’m the guy (sick, miserable, twisted?) responsible for this idea, so any vitriol should be delivered directly to my doorstep. Having said that, I think it is very important to understand that there have been many many financial firms engaged in underhanded, shady, abusive and fraudulent behavior. One of the legal system’s jobs is to function as a counterbalance to illegal behavior and we hope we can call attention to this.

The goal of the contest is not to reward the saddest story, but instead to help educate the populace about how the legal system can assist enforcing legal rights. And yes, along the way, we’ll pay the legal fees to try to help someone keep their home. For more information on specific situations in which a lawyer may be able to help save a home, check out the contest itself: http://foreclosure.avvo.com/save-my-house-contest

Regards,
Conrad

By: lisamarie

lisamarie — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 22:29:00 +0000

In reply to Imanda Waldon. I will pray for you also. This entire mess cooked up by these vile banksters makes me sick. God bless you and your home.

By: Imanda Waldon

Imanda Waldon — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:13:49 +0000

My husband and I have been fighting mortgage fraud and foreclosure fraud for 54 months. We have paid an attorney to represent us only for us to end up in bankruptcy. I am proud they are offering a free legal team. We will be submitting our story and “PRAY” that we win. The mortgage company (CitiMortgage) took our dignity a long time ago. Finally, people are starting to understand that mortgage companies and banks have been committing fraud against the hands that feed them. We have nothing left to lose except our home. We will proudly hold our hands out and hope to shame this mortgage company right out of business.

By: Elyse

Elyse — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 00:45:29 +0000

In reply to stopGOVTwaste. Found it! Thanx for sharing!

By: lisamarie

lisamarie — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 00:19:14 +0000

Oh bull crap! This is a great idea and if one family benifits from it, it will be well worth it. And yes, if all every state did was make the lenders pay for all the filing fees they dodged this whole mess would just about be paid for!

By: ForeclosureHamlet

ForeclosureHamlet — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 17:00:32 +0000

I am torn on this one.

While my first reaction was a bitter laugh of disbelief that this is what we’ve become; contestants in the misery Olympics, displaying our devastated lives for all to view, compare, vote upon and hopefully worth the toss a charitable bone.

Upon further thought, a good lawyer is often the only difference between having one’s home stolen by a bank or servicer who has no right to take the home and actually raising legal defenses to wrongful foreclosure.

It’s an exploitative contest in the name of advertising a lawyer referral service, but it will help one family avoid homelessness due to a wrongful foreclosure, and also will educate many on the possibility of defending homes against fraudulent foreclosures…………and at the very least it isn’t worsening the foreclosure crisis and doesn’t appear to be another scam.

By: stopGOVTwaste

stopGOVTwaste — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 02:17:58 +0000

In reply to Elyse.

Here’s something you might like to see (if you already haven’t)
http://livinglies.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/mers-amicus-brief.pdf

By: stopGOVTwaste

stopGOVTwaste — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 02:02:45 +0000

I think I’d be on the short list for 4F’s “most f’ed up mill complaint!” Hit me up for sure when that contest rolls out!

The people over at Avvo may want to think about using their legal and marketing “talents” in some other kind of form because that was about the sorriest excuse for a marketing idea I’ve ever seen. Outside of this one;
http://www.lpsvcs.com/AboutUs/Brochures/Brochure%20PDFs/GS01_Govt_Solutions.pdf