Last week, Attorney General Kamala Harris, who has fought for California homeowners and against big banks, was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by TIME Magazine. Harris is 48 years old and is the first female, the first African American, and the first South Asian to ever be elected as read more »

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), a government agency, recently released the nation’s largest public database of federal consumer financial complaints. This database includes details about more than 90,000 individual complaints on five types of products and services: consumer loans, bank accounts or bank services, mortgages, credit cards and student loans. The majority of complaints, read more »

The government continues to crack down on mortgage schemes today with news breaking that federal prosecutors have sued Bank of America, accusing the massive lender of carrying out a fraudulent home loan program. During the financial crisis, prosecutors say that BOA deceived the government by selling poor loans, without revealing the quality of the loans, read more »

California may have some of the best homeowner state law protection in the country after last week’s introduction of the new legislation the Homeowners Bill of Rights. It was a win for struggling homeowners who praised the new laws in CA attention to lender misconduct over the past few years. The homeowner state laws 2013 read more »

Mortgage Robo Signing In 2010, it came as a terrible shock to learn that financial lenders, such as bank giants JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America and Wells Fargo, were submitting falsified, unverified or otherwise fraudulent foreclosure paperwork in court. Banks were routinely using affidavits signed by employees who either didn’t review the documentation as read more »

As we get closer to January 2013 when California’s new Homeowner Bill of Rights will take effect, we want to make sure you understand your rights and are prepared to take advantage of the benefits. It’s a monumental change to the foreclosure process; California is the first to enact homeowner protections like these at the state read more »