CA Attorney General Files charges in massive 17 state mortgage fraud scheme. - 08/19/11 01:50 PM
CA State Attorney General Kamala Harris sued Philip Kramer, the Law Offices of Kramer & Kaslow, two other law firms, three other lawyers, and 14 other defendants who are accused of working together to defraud homeowners across the country through the deceptive marketing of "mass joinder" lawsuits. Prominent foreclosure attorneys Phillip Kramer and Mitchell Stein and at least 17 others have been accused of luring desperate homeowners into the scheme using deceptive advertising and telemarketing schemes aimed at millions of people in California and 16 other states. 
The scheme claimed that courts have found that most mortgage lenders engaged in predatory lending … (22 comments)

Crow with West Nile Virus found in Wildomar CA - 08/18/11 05:55 PM
A dead crow with West Nile Virus was found in Wildomar. Crows cover a lot of ground in their daily travels and may have played host to dozens of mosquitoes during their travels. Here's the caution from the County of Riverside about how to reduce your chances of contracting the disease.
West nile View more documents from Southwest Riverside County Association of Realtors. … (1 comments)

National Association of Realtors® Issues Brief: Mortgage Interest Deduction, GSE Loan Limits & National Flood Insurance - 08/12/11 07:40 PM
This is the most recent Issues Brief issued by NAR. In one page summaries it outlines the major talking points the Association is following for in-district meetings with our Congresspeople. They're on vacation right now you know, exhausted from the crippling mano a mano over the debt ceiling. Will Rogers used to say "The only difference between death and taxes is that death don't get any worse every time Congress meets."
The next 100 days or less is critical to housing. Both higher conforming loan limits and the National Flood Insurance Program are scheduled to expire on September 30. the NFIP … (2 comments)

Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain. - 08/12/11 03:38 PM
The California Democratic Party is at it again - and they're counting on you being too stupid to notice.
Dan Walters, Political Columnists for the Sacramento Bee, recently wrote about the slew of Democratic legislation aimed at eviscerating the initiative process in our state. You know, the initiative process - whereby ordinary citizens have the opportunity to get measures on the ballot that legislators don't like? Yeah, that process. Democrats complain that 'the initiative process is being abused' and they want to protect us from ourselves. 
Now granted there are too many initiatives on our ballot sometimes - there were 10 on … (9 comments)

California's Legislature - Unclear on the Whole 'Jobs' Thingy. - 08/11/11 01:15 PM
Say you're the owner of a commercial building. Based on bids, you hire a company to come in evenings and clean the building keeping your investment intact and making it presentable for your employees and clients the next day. Now imagine that company is run very poorly, they hire cheap labor, do a very poor job, don't even show up some days, maybe steal stuff from your workplace. At the end of the year, they've done such a bad job you go back out to bid and hire a reputable company that has a great reputation but will cost significantly more. 
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