Facing Foreclosure?

If you're serious about saving your home the first question on your mind should be, "How is `Foreclosure Defense' even possible?"  The banks argue that you agreed to a debt (your mortgage),  and if you're having problems paying, it isn't their problem - and anyone who advocates otherwise is a fraud.

The truth is that during the housing bubble, banks & other mortgage lenders often used tactics that crossed ethical and legal lines in order to keep the momentum of the booming mortgage industry going.  Your own mortgage documents are an important place find issues to cite in your defense. The bank wants you to believe that you have no options - but the truth is that they were the ones rigging the system and now they are afraid of getting caught!

Your desired outcome will determine what strategies you can employ in this endeavor.  If your focus is to stay in your home, there are certain steps available to you.  Likewise, if selling your home to avoid foreclosure is what you desire, there are specific tactics to be employed there as well.  Home need major repairs?  You have options here as well!

Don't just let foreclosure 'happen'.

Before paying for any foreclosure service educate yourself about the process - learn your options and familiarize yourself with the current status of the foreclosure industry. Make sure your next decisions are the right ones.

Contact us at LashleyGroup for a free consultation.  There's no obligation, so call us now!  786.567.8210

My Car!!!

Last night a couple of nuckleheads were horseplaying next to the car. This morning I noticed THIS!!!!!!

I am SOOOOOO PISSSSSSED OFF!!!

Star Creek Plumbing Job

As of mid day on Tuesday, May 26, 2009, the plumbers are in full swing.

They did, however, find that the excavation work was not complete as indicated by this shot of 'Q' excavating the earth under an as yet unbroken concrete slab adjacent to unit 103.

The section of the trench in the area of units 102 and 103 was not deep and especially not wide enough--you can just make out the City's Water Meter box under the yellow tape in this shot:

The new trench should go under the box. There are sprinkler lines and water service lines criss-crossing this section which might explain why the trench is not complete here.

The plumbers are digging along side the excavator and believe the will finish the install today.

More Pictures:

Mom Moved Temporarily

Florida Club Care Nursing Center is undergoing rehab on the building. The work is being done in 4 phases. Mom's room (on the north-west of the building )is now being redone. The staff has moved Mom across the hall to Room # 332 until the rehab on her side of the building is complete. She'll go back to her room (331) upon completion.

On The Radio...

My friend Metris who co-hosts The Chat with Sandy & Metris on Hot-97.7fm-Miami invited me to come in and represent the Male point of view in their discussion last night. The topic was "Indepenent Women - What do men really want?" I had a great time, but it was FREEZING cold in the studio. I wonder if the listenners could hear me shivering...
The discussion centered on the idea that men claim to want an independent woman, but then complain that she works too much. Or that men don't often 'step up' when it's clear that the woman is struggling financially. Over all I don't think that we solved any of the problems of independent women... Though, I think that for the most part were really talking about hard working women as opposed to independent women. More than once or twice, the archetype of the woman working two jobs to keep the lights on and bills paid came up--hence the distinction between hard working and independent.
To my mind, if you are working two jobs and you are just getting by, then you aren't really all that independent. Yes, you can pay the bills without a man, but you may have become a slave to the "just getting by" syndrome. Likewise many hard working women can let the stress of the hustle impact on how they feel about men. All in all though, I think that it's about expectations and communication. You have to know yourself enough to be able to convey what you want and expect in a relationship. There used to be time to get to know people back in the olden days when we courted each other. Now-a-days, we meet at the club, I take you home, and by tomorrow we're in a 'relationship' and I haven't even committed your last name to memory yet!!!
Anyway, that's what I was doing on the radio last night...

Canibals...?

How do we walk back from this...?

The vitriol and the cold and calculated nature of the fight for the Democratic Presidential Nomination has me completely turned off. It's disgusting to watch. Clinton and Obama have chosen to allowed themselves to be dragged down into the muck and mire.

Little more than 140 years ago Black men got the legal right to vote and to hold public office in this country. This was an obvious slap in the face to the Whites who just a short time before enjoyed dominion over these 'Africans' and created vast sums of wealth on their backs. The result? The Clan, Jim Crow, Poll Taxes, Lynchings, Segregation and on and on all in an effort to maintain a visceral feeling of supremacy.

I remind myself of this history seeking context to try to understand what is happening now. Most thinking people agree that Racism still exists in our culture to one degree or another. Some think that it has long since been sweated out of our collective pores. These people hope more than they believe in my opinion. Race is in the DNA of our very society. The fact that the nation's founding fathers so conspicuously chose to omit the entire subject of Human Chattel when determining the lofty aspirations for the assemblage of free colonies later to be called a Union tells us that this was a tumor attached to the very spine of the idea that we today call America. It has always been there. Sometimes more and sometimes less malignant and sometimes but never really benign. At 36 years old, I have grown accustomed to hearkening back to memories three decades ago and feeling as though only a month or a week had passed. In that context 100 years is not a long time at all. Those feelings of hatred and supremacy do not simply evaporate. They bleed out slowly over generations. Sometimes we convulse as we purge and sometime we just bleed, but it is a generational process that takes place without regard for our best efforts to pretend otherwise. Political Correctness has pushed these feelings deeper making them harder to recognize amongst the myriad and complex motivations people have behind their actions.

What I see happening in the race is amazing if scary to watch.

The Clintons (Bill and Hillary) are two of the most skilled politicians this process has ever seen. We have only to look at the score card over the last sixteen years for the proof. That they could not foresee how their post Iowa/New Hampshire strategy would divide constituencies within the party is in a word laughable.

Any political analyst could tell you that the divide and conquer strategy works more than it doesn't. Moreover, it's what Bush has been so successful at for most of his time in office (think Partial Birth Abortion and Gay Marriage). However, to watch the polarization in progress, to see the South Carolina population divide so starkly along racial lines makes me queasy inside. It makes me want to turn off the TV and wait until September when all of this over.

I am not sure how the party walks back from this. Chris Mathews of 'Hardball' on CNBC posed an interesting dilemma for the Clintons a few weeks ago. It had to do with hiding the body so to speak. After the Clintons destroy Obama (and to beat him they will have to), a man who has tapped in to America's hopes and aspirations and shown an ability to bring new and long lost voters to the Democratic party, they can not pretend that he does not exist. He will be too much of a powerful figure in the party to just ignore. But after savaging him the way they no doubt will, how could they possibly get together on anything down the road?

How does the country take on the discussion of Race in America after 30 years of pretending that it didn't exist?

Moezie

My Dog (Redbone)