NAHB Stops All Congressional Campaign Contributions

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!The National Association of Home Builders has announced that they are discontinuing their contributions to Congressional campaigns. They are doing this to protest the failure of Congress to address their concerns.
So let me get this straight. The money grubbing [...]

6 US Lenders Offer Project Lifeline To Homeowners in Foreclosure

Another week, another program announced to help those in foreclosure.
This weeks entry into comes from the private and public sectors as 6 of the major lenders have created Project Lifeline to help those subprime borrowers 90 days or more late on their loans. With how screwed up the management of the loan programs are [...]

Foreclosure and Your Pets - What To Do.

If you are facing foreclosure and do not know what to do the East Bay ASPCA has come out with an outstanding primer. The advice is solid even if you do not live in the East Bay area of California.

Foreclosure and Your Pets
The foreclosure crisis has created difficult and stressful times for many Bay Area [...]

Overzealous Tenant Sues Over Smoking Neighbor

What would you do if you had a neighbor like this?

Parents in a posh West Side building fear their young son’s health is in danger from second-hand smoke that filters into their home - and have sued a butt-puffing neighbor.
In a suit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, Jonathan and Jenny Selbin labeled their next-door neighbor [...]

Google Sued By Australian Real Estate Agent For Defamation

In an interesting case out of Victoria, Australia, two real estate agent are suing Google for defamation. The agents claim that they asked Google to remove articles from their indexes that were defamatory but that Google did not act upon those requests.
What is interesting in this is that Google is just the messenger. Unless the articles [...]