I often write my own posts to this blog but my clients and contacts often write their own. This is just in from Arizona: “I am not writing to you seeking advice as I live in Arizona and have consultedREAD MORE
Credit Fraud
Dear Readers, Thanks again for tuning in to this channel. I hope each of you had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Now it’s Christmas time, the time when families most go into debt during the year. Here’s my Christmas wish for eachREAD MORE
The biggest single commodity in our country is no longer oil or gold. It’s debt. There is a seemingly never-ending market for debt. For those of you who are not familiar with this, let’s go over just a few factsREAD MORE
Hi all, It’s a glorious day for consumer protection not only in the Western states but throughout the country! The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which is the Federal Court of Appeals for California and for some other western states,READ MORE
On August 30, 2007, the Superior Court in Rancho Cucamonga, San Bernardino County, California ordered Wells Fargo Home Mortgage to pay fees and costs of $283.594.45 in addition to a damages award of $765,000 to Reed and Mary Ann FisherREAD MORE
It was a matter of time, I guess, before overbearing debt collectors who regularly practice their own special brand of “financial terrorism” upon consumers would jump on the “lawsuit reform” bandwagon and press legislators to repeal the protections of theREAD MORE
On May 4, 2007, a unanimous federal jury in Los Angeles, California ordered debt collector Arrow Financial Services to pay Laura Nelson $100,000.00 for a multi-year pattern of unfair debt collection and false credit reporting practices. Laura Nelson v. ArrowREAD MORE
Yesterday I was on KNX radio, on Bob McCormick’s “Money 101″ show, and Bob asked me about a medical bill for $2.50 that a debt collector was trying to collect. Bob asked whether they could credit-report that small of aREAD MORE