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Tenants' Rights in Eviction: When Do Landlords Go Too Far? {AOL Real Estate}
Feb 5th 2013 1:55PM Senor? Is this woman Mexican? Senior would probably be more appropriate!
Tenants' Rights in Eviction: When Do Landlords Go Too Far? {AOL Real Estate}
Feb 5th 2013 1:52PM So, it's o.k. for this woman to be homeless? I guess homeless is better than dead. But WOW! I would think homelessness at her age would cause death.
Reverse Mortgages Pose Big Risks for Seniors, Warn Attorneys and U.S. Officials {AOL Real Estate}
Dec 9th 2012 2:50PM Mary, your "solution" sounds so simple!! Too bad that in this economy, it's been almost impossible to sell a home for what it's worth! Due to the crappy, shady practices of mortgage lenders, the housing market is a bust right now.
My 74 year old mother who is a widow, has been trying to sell her house that was appraised at $225,000.00 for $180,000.00 for almost two years now. She needs the money to pay for cancer treatment. Guess what? The highest offer she has gotten so far was $165,000.00! I guess she could take the money and run, but it certainly isn't what she and my father worked their entire lives for! To take a $50,000.00 hit is ludicrous.
No, my mom is smarter than than and she's also smarter than to take a reverse mortgage. So until she gets a fair price for her home, we'll just continue to piece together the money she needs for treatments.
Reverse Mortgages Pose Big Risks for Seniors, Warn Attorneys and U.S. Officials {AOL Real Estate}
Dec 9th 2012 2:43PM These types of "lenders" need to be outlawed just as they need to outlaw the pay day loan industry. They do nothing but rip off of vulnerable people! This is no better than loan sharking, they just call it a different name! Just like the payday loan industry, this one was conceived by and is dominated by organized crime. They are just getting a little sneakier in trying to trap new victims!
Reverse Mortgages Pose Big Risks for Seniors, Warn Attorneys and U.S. Officials {AOL Real Estate}
Dec 9th 2012 2:39PM
Jeffrey Mitchell of Miramar Beach, Fla., Displays 'Sex Offender' Sign in His Front Yard {AOL Real Estate}
Dec 7th 2012 10:46PM ANYONE is considered guilty unless they have thousands and thousands of dollars to pay some smarmy attorney to "prove" their innocence. It's a case of "you're guilty unless you have a crapload of money to prove your innocence!" In this country, if "you have no money, you have no rights!"
Rogue Mover Sold Florida Woman's Belongings, Police Say {AOL Real Estate}
Aug 22nd 2012 10:07PM Who would WANT his organs? Certainly not me!!
Rent for 90-Square-Foot Apartment Could Nearly Double {AOL Real Estate}
Feb 3rd 2012 5:24PM Greed, Greed, Greed! This "landlord" has gotten bit by the greed bug!
The New Homeless: Living Behind the Wheel {AOL Real Estate}
Nov 25th 2011 1:30PM There ya go, 1%! Want to scew the poor people down a little further. Ask your buddies and friends that run your cities to make it illegal to sleep in your vehicle. You could site health issues such as carbon monoxide poisoning or safety issue such at being vulnerable to the criminal element. Whatever. It'll be like your move to squash the Occupy movement by having police intervene even when they were being peaceful! Or the "do-gooder" laws that get passed to further reduce the rights and choices of the people!
Obese passenger forces neighbor on US Airways flight to stand for 7 hours {Gadling}
Nov 23rd 2011 5:18PM I am so incredibly tired of the viciousness and venom being spewed by fat-haters out there. It is, quite frankly, unbelievable to me that people actually feel justified in this level of cruelty. I guess I continue to underestimate peoples' capacity to rip each other apart. But for those of you out there who seem to want to be so preoccupied with my weight issues, let me say this: yes, I have a problem. A frailty. A fault. I would venture to guess that you do as well. We live in an imperfect world, populated by imperfect people. We all have our weaknesses. The difference between me and the guy who can't commit to a relationship or the woman who spends too much money on shoes, is that MY fault happens to be the first thing you see about me when we meet. Before you know that I am smart, or funny, or an awesome mother, or a loyal and devoted friend, you see that I am fat. I wonder how you would feel if your greatest weakness was announced before you ever spoke a word when you meet a new friend on colleague. Would you be embarrassed? Ashamed, even? I wonder. This much I know; my frailty is a failure that affects primarily me. I battle it every day, and some days are more successful than others. I do believe that the day will come that I will overcome it. But even if I don't, I figure if my biggest failure is my inability to make a good decision about what I eat for supper, and your biggest frailty is your willingness to rip another person to shreds because they are not attractive enough to meet your standards, I will take my failure, early mortality rate and all. I would prefer to be a fat woman with compassion and integrity any day.
