The National Mortgage Advocate was formed to provide guidance to consumers when searching for their next purchase or refinance transaction.  While we will provide educational material on assisting clients in learnign their various options, we are also unforgiving in our attacks on false and/or misleading websites as was the case in a recent blog.

Recently we blogged about Money Merge Accounts and what we believed to be the truth, unfortunately was not.  More about that shortly, but on to the real story.

In our blog, we attacked not the program itself, but the information posted on the site.  The information presented many misleading statements and false information.  For that reason we forged a relentless approach to that site and proceeded to tear about their very fabric.  We proceeded to highlight only a few items shown on the site, bringing their misleading statements to light and showing our readers that the site cannot be trusted and therefore, cannot receive our recommendation. 

Ultimately, we would do our best to steer consumers away from the site.

Through the comments made, we became aware that the site in question was not the real site of the company and that the information posted to the site was not authorized.  The real company, United First Financial has taken the necessary steps to "turn off" the website and terminate the broadcast of false information. 

We commend them for the expeditious procedures to protecting the consumer and allowing real information to be shown. 

As stated earlier, we are now in the process of reviewing the real information and will make a post accordingly once that review is done.  We however, did not want to wait until that time to say that are misssion here was mostly a success.

We succeeded in our mission in the fact that our post had the desired effect of shutting down that site and protecting the consumer.  We cannot call it a complete success in that, while our post did nto attack the program itself, it did prevent the real company from possibly helping some consumers that may have benefited from it.

For those of you reading this post now, understand that our mission is to protect the consumer and provide valid information for guidance to them.  We need your help.  If you hear of a website you believe is misleading the consumer, providing false information or otherwise treating consumers unfairly, please let us know.  We have proved with our recent post, that they can be stopped!

We do believe strongly in the mortgage planning process, particularly in those with the CMPS designation, but we also understand that there are other valid options.  With that in mind, please feel free to register on our website and after approval, you can submit articles to be reviewed and possibly posted.  We already have one AR member posting information.  We need more and again, we need your help in protecting the consumer.

Please visit our site at www.nationalmortgageadvocate.com and contact us if you have any questions.  Thank you.