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There is an old anecdote. It is a Russian anecdote, and in Russia very old anecdotes are called 'Anecdote with a beard'.

So this one is with a beard. Here it goes:

A guy who worked all his life making machine guns for the military moved to a different area, and is looking for a job. He finds one in a shop assembling the cribs.

At the end of his first day a foreman comes to him and asks him how it went. Frustrated guy turns to him and complains - "No matter how I try, every time I end up with a machine gun". And he showed the foreman a bunch of machine guns, that he put together.

The moral of the story is simple and self evident. I see similar things with short sales/foreclosures/loan mitigation/bankruptcies. Every time I hear people go to the bankruptcy attorney for advice, they end up with declaring bankruptcies. Sometimes it is so frustrating.

I know the situation, and people could benefit from doing a short sale, but they would rather die than trust me over the attorney, and most probably end up doing stupid things. I even suggested to people I know that I would go with them to the consultation, but they just trust the attorneys.

Well, they are so darn smart ... and they have an attorney. Don;t we suggest that they do just that, consult an attorney?

If you love your wife, do not go to a family lawyer for any real estate advice, as you would end up in divorce.

... Cause that's what they do, assemble machine guns instead of cribs...

Posted by Jon Zolsky, your Daytona Beach, Florida connection on 10/12/2009 01:39 AM

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Jon: This is a pretty "interesting" analogy. But, then again, how could this guy do anything else but make machine guns. It sounds like he was very "stuck" in what he was doing.

Actually, I much prefer cribs. So... what can we do to get this poor guy away from the guns, and into making cribs ?

It is just so sad that folks who could be saving their credit by doing a short sale... end up losing so much in a foreclosure.

Ahtleechna! My favorite lawyer is Abraham Lincoln. Why? Because he always did what was in the best interests of the client even if that meant declining a case or encouraging that individual to work things out without legal action.

One of my very favorite presidents is Harry Truman. He was heavily in debt when a business failed and he did not declare bankruptcy or take the easy way out. He worked extra hard at new endeavors and paid off all his debt.

It seems that a lot of times we are avoiding what is morally right because it is "legal" in the sense of the law. Thanks for sharing this Jon.

I am new here to Active Rain. Do you have relatives in Russia, or did you emigrate from there recently? If so, where from?

Spaseeba!

Jon,

The thing about those old "Anecdote with a beard" is just like American "tripe" they often impart allot of wisdom!

I totally agree about bankruptcy attorneys.

Bill

Is this kind of like going to a doctor specialist- he WILL find something wrong with you that fits his specialty?

Karen Anne - it is happening all over. Each scenario has its own pluses and minuses, but if you see than everyone going to the bankraptcy attorney ends up in bankruptcy, it makes you think that it is very difficult to expect of someone, who assembled machine guns all his life, to be able to put together a simple crib.

Thanks for the comment

Bruce - you are touching on a huge issue of moral and legal. Kudos to you if you tackle it.

I am here in the US since 1991. Last 14 years lived in the Arctic

Bill - thank you. I knew that anecdote is a bit different from the Russian word, but I never before met the word tripe. Still learning.

Thanks

Les & Leslie - it is even trickier with doctors. It is more involved.

Jon,

Tripe is some thing that is repeated so often that that it becomes meaningless. Like: "How are you?" "Have a good day!" or any over used anecdote.

It's an ooften used newspaper term referring to individuals, like me that tend to repeat themselves. Tripe can be personal or societal, a saying that I repeat to often or one used to ooften by the public.

Bill