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01/28/12 Four Dynamite Don’ts for Troubled Home Loans Northern California Mortgage Mods
06/09/11 Foreclosures: Should You Do the Unthinkable? blogtalkradio
05/21/2011 Mortgage Interest Deduction: Is it Going Away? 1220am Business Radio - KDOW
05/11/2011 Free Foreclosure Workshop May 22, 2011 Santa Cruz Sentinel
04/15/2011 You May Be Taxed On Forgiven Mortgage Debt From Foreclosure CNN Money
04/06/2011 Foreclosure Notice - The Crisis Hits Home. And It Hasn’t Even Hit Its Peak Yet. What It All Means For Santa Cruz County. Good Times - Santa Cruz
03/20/2011 Soquel Attorney Warns About Taxable Debt Relief; Some Borrowers may not Owe Taxes Despite Foreclosure Santa Cruz Sentinel
03/14/2011 1099-A In the Mail? How to Avoid Taxes on Cancelled Debt - Part 2 Credit.com News + Advice
03/07/2011 1099-C In the Mail? How to Avoid Taxes on Cancelled Debt - Part 1 Credit.com News + Advice
12/15/2010 Consumer Attorneys Oppose Changes in Truth in Lending Act Santa Cruz Sentinel
02/19/2011 Foreclosure Workshop Video Community Television of Santa Cruz County
02/19/2011 Video del Taller de Juicio Hipotecario Community Television of Santa Cruz County
Oct. 2010 Pro Bono Committee Quarterly Newsletter - October 2010 ABA Section of Real Estate Property Trust and Estate Law
10/18/2010 Homeowners in Limbo Wall Street Journal
10/05/2010 Foreclosure Moratoriums Effects Uncertain San Francisco Chronicle
07/24/2010 Bankruptcy Can Save Your House From Foreclosure CNNMoney.com
07/22/2010 Boulder Creek Family Bought Worthless Second Mortgage from Wells Fargo at Foreclosure Auction Santa Cruz Sentinel
06/09/2010 Foreclosures Your Legal Rights on KAWL 91.7 FM in San Francisco
05/03/2010 Short Sales, Welfare Travails Against the Grain on KPFA 94.1 FM in Berkeley.
May 2010 The Dream Deferred California Lawyer
03/30/2010 Help for Underwater Homeowners Comes With Strings Attached Santa Cruz Sentinel
05/24/2009 Government Would Like to See More Short Sales San Francisco Chronicle
04/30/2009 A Short Sale May Not Mean You're Home Free The Wall Street Journal
12/25/2008 Once Trusted Mortgage Pioneers, Now Scrutinized The New York Times
10/18/2008 Median home price plunges to $475,000 as Watsonville sales soar Santa Cruz Sentinel
09/03/2008 Home Sweet Hell Metro of Santa Cruz
06/05/2008 The Next Real Estate Crisis Businessweek
05/21/2008 Realtors, Learn About Foreclosures Los Gatos Weekly
10/16/2007 Attorneys See Need for Mortgage Reform Santa Cruz Sentinel
09/18/2007 Latinos Ask Regulators to Curb Predatory Lending Santa Cruz Sentinel
09/06/2007 What People Can Do If Foreclosure Looms Wall Street Journal
08/11/2007 In Retrospect the Crisis Was Inevitable Times of London
07/08/2007 Casualties of the American Dream County - The Herald
07/06/2007 Mortgage Mess Shines Light on Brokers' Role Wall Street Journal
06/24/2007 Santa Cruz Resident Says Her Home Was Stolen in Foreclosure Scam Santa Cruz Sentinel
05/03/2007 Minorities Hit Hard by Foreclosure Crunch Hollister Freelance
04/22/2007 Finding a Legal Escape Clause - Attorney Rescues Homeowners From Loans They Can't Afford San Francisco Chronicle
04/15/07 Impossible Loan Turns Dream Home Into Nightmare San Francisco Chronicle
03/17/07 Sub-Prime Mortgages Lead Way to Widening Disaster Times of London
03/15/07 Making Sense of the Mortgage Mess - Defaults are Soaring and Stocks are Tanking. But It's no Time for Alarm Businessweek
03/14/07 Foreclosures on Upswing Santa Cruz Sentinel
03/13/07 At a Mortgage Lender, Rapid Rise, Faster Fall Wall Street Journal
03/08/07 Debating Standards for Mortgage Lenders - Subprime Defaults Prompt Calls for New Rules Insuring That Loans Suit Borrowers Wall Street Journal
02/20/07 Foreclosures on Rise Locally Santa Cruz Sentinel
02/20/07 Loan Forgiven, Not Forgotten Contra Costa Times
09/11/06 Nightmare Mortgages - They promise the American Dream: A home of your own -- with ultra-low rates and payments anyone can afford. Now, the trap has sprung Businessweek
06/25/05 DA: Scammer Sought to Bilk Homeowners - Allegedly offered loans with hidden fees, rates Register Pajaronian
06/24/05 129 Fraudulent Loans Suspected by Phony Mortgage Man Santa Cruz Sentinel
01/11/04 How to Avoid Predatory Mortgages Santa Cruz Sentinel


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