From Reuters. No comment needed:
Foreclosed Couple Detain, Torture Loan-Modification AgentsLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - As Los Angeles housing advocates launched a campaign warning of mortgage rescue scams, a couple hit by foreclosure are charged with torturing two loan-modification agents they suspected of fraud, authorities said....
"The two allegedly sought loan modification assistance from the victims but believed that nothing was being done and wanted their money back," a statement from the district attorney's office said.
[DA mouthpiece Shiara] Davila-Morales added that the couple, according to investigators, believed they had been swindled.
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Editor's note: And so they have, of course, like every other so-called "homeowner" of less than 40 years' standing in North America. Why, I wonder, aren't all the others responding in such an appropriate way?
Comments (4)
Even we renters have stories http://skookumgeoduck.blogspot.com/2009/10/castle-made-of-sand.html to tell.
Posted by Jay Taber | October 27, 2009 10:53 PM
Posted on October 27, 2009 22:53
Preach it, Jay! These fuckers use "their properties" as springboards for Wall Street plays and a thousand harebrained local "investments." Buildings that long ago should have been paid off go decades without basic maintenance, not to mention upgrades.
Rack 'em.
Posted by Michael Dawson | October 28, 2009 7:53 AM
Posted on October 28, 2009 07:53
When we reported her to the health department, and they ordered her to hire a licensed rodent exterminator, she had a panic attack and called 911. Watching the paramedics carry her out of the building, we figured the idea of having to spend a few hundred bucks for her tenants' health and safety put her over the edge. Ain't greed a beautiful thing?
Posted by Jay Taber | October 28, 2009 11:16 AM
Posted on October 28, 2009 11:16
Have I told the story here before of my first landlord in New York? This blubbery religious caterpillar was literally struck down with a cerebral haemorrhage at sunset on Yom Kippur. For some years after I saw him occasionally, being trundled down the street in a wheelchair, his formerly keen avaricious gimlet-eyed expression replaced with a vague distant thousand-yard stare -- contemplating, I can only hope, certain aspects of reality not previously evident to him.
Tell me there's no God. Ha!
Posted by MJS | October 31, 2009 11:16 PM
Posted on October 31, 2009 23:16