Effect Entrepreneur and Investor Comments on the Obama Administrations Announcement of their National Impact Initiative

New York, NY (PRWEB) June 27, 2013

On June 27, impact entrepreneur and investor, Philippe van den Bossche, comments on the Obama Administrations announcement of their National Influence Initiative at the UKs G8 Social Influence Investing Forum this month.

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According to the White Homes press release on WhiteHouse.gov, the Obama Administration launched the National Effect Initiative (NII) to expand the use of influence investing as an element of the Administrations techniques for economic growth and global development.

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Effect Investing is the practice of channeling capital toward organizations that intentionally generate financial return and public benefit. Such organizations openly track and measure social, environmental, and governance (ESG) considerations alongside their monetary returns.

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In the course of his presidency, President Obama and his Administration have been functioning to help effect investing with series of policies and applications which includes:&#13

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California Attorney’s Loan Modification Plan Saves Residences & Stops Foreclosure, Obama Program Disappoints…One particular Woman’s Story

Moreno Valley, CA (PRWEB) September 8, 2009

Like many difficult-operating Americans these days, Elva Loera’s life was turned upside down when she was forced to close down her modest business. With tiny savings to offset a money flow crisis, her family’s extended-term financial future was all of a sudden in jeopardy. Regrettably, the worst was yet to come as Elva’s husband also lost his job. “I have usually taken pride in meeting my obligations,” stated Elva. “I genuinely did not know how we would ever survive or when we would function once more.”

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Regardless of their efforts to discover employment, the Loera loved ones have been unlikely victims of a shrinking economy as they struggled to replace lost revenue. With sources beginning to dissipate, Elva contacted her lender for help as she started to slip additional behind on her mortgage. According to Loera, “My lender created promises and in no way followed via. I kept hearing about how the government applications would provide relief, but my lender did not care. I had nowhere to turn.”

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A number of months later, Elva received a Notice of Default from her lender and a Trustee Sale date was set to auction her residence to the highest bidder. “This is the home where my kids had grown up and they have been taking it away without providing any aid. I was angry and frustrated and had no option but to move out of my residence.” With but a few days remaining just before the auction, a friend of Elva’s recommended that she get in touch with an attorney she had heard about, Joseph Hoats and his not too long ago announced, Homeowner Stability Solution. With nothing at all to drop, she known as Hoats to see if there was any hope for relief from her desperate situation.

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Using a make contact with with Elva’s lender, Hoats and his Loan Modification team persuaded them to postpone the impending sale date and began serious negotiations. Combining his proprietary approach, which includes aggressive negotiating methods and a litany of legal techniques, Hoats provided Elva with renewed hope. Said Elva, “I am a fighter and I in no way gave up hopeI prayed every day and my belief in a optimistic outcome by no means wavered.”

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Racing against the clock, the persistence of this unflappable California homeowner paid off abundantly. Within days of the second scheduled Trustee Sale date, Attorney Hoats contacted Elva with the very first positive news she had heard in months as the lender lastly agreed to settle the prolonged ordeal. The settlement not only took care of Mrs. Loera’s back payments and penalties, it supplied her with a completely amortized, 30 year, fixed rate mortgage at 3.689%, down from her original price of 7.676%. This massive payment reduction supplied a extended-term solution to her money flow difficulty and new the peace of thoughts that had eluded her for virtually one year. Nowadays, Elva has a new effective company and when once more resides in her beloved house with her family members. “I can sleep once more, and I in no way take anything for granted. I will forever be grateful to Joseph Hoats for saving my residence. He is not just my lawyer, he is my friend.”

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Hoats commented, “Elva is not unlike our typical client who has knowledgeable some economic hardshipa job loss, income reduction, divorce or medical dilemma that tends to make it difficult to spend the monthly mortgage payment. Like Elva, these are good, hard-operating, family members-oriented Americans who have fallen on hard occasions, by way of no fault of their own, and they need to have compassion, aid, and a legal game program to save their home.”

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Although Elva’s story has a satisfied ending, millions of Americans continue to be ignored by their lenders and the Federal Government as foreclosures continue to rise. Hoats concludes, “Without having experienced legal representation that has deep operating relationships with important lenders, buyers will continue to fail in their efforts to personally facilitate a productive Loan Modification. At Homeowner Stability, it is all about our clientwe are focused on lasting solutions that are in the ideal interest of the customer, not just the lender’s very best interest.”

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With more than 20 years of encounter as an Attorney, Joseph Hoats has worked for the rights of the customer all through his career. Functioning together, his team of committed experts has perfected the Loan Modification method with the introduction of their proprietary Homeowner Stability Solutiona systematic method accountable for maintaining hundreds of distressed Homeowners in their residences and avoiding foreclosure.

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Joe is a graduate of Vanderbilt University and has practiced law for over two decades. He has litigated in the regions of Real Estate Law, Bankruptcy Law, Foreclosure and Loan Modification, Trust Law, Probate Law, Company Law and has in depth experience with Litigation in State and Federal Courts. He is an active member in great standing with the State Bar of California, State Bar #141599.

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Obama Administration Announces Help of Principal Reduction Programs Atlantic Mutual Gives a Resolution

Largo, FL (PRWEB) April 20, 2010

When the Obama Administration announced its help of principal reduction applications in March, Atlantic Mutual, LLC, had already been working on a private sector remedy. Just one year ago, the Administration amended TARP to develop a provision that makes such principal reduction programs possible. Following almost 1 year of research, Atlantic Mutual launched a Principal Reduction Plan in February that will access the Public-Private Investment Program (P-PIP) of TARP to facilitate their system. Sixty days into the plan, Atlantic Mutual supplies an update on the progress of their principal reduction strategy and the particulars of why their Principal Reduction System operates.

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More than the previous two months, Atlantic Mutual has been swiftly expanding to collect files to fill the loan portfolios that they are putting collectively for their interested investors. The portfolios are lender-specific and created to meet the desires of the finish investors. Weve identified a way to underwrite these portfolios of loans so that a qualified investor can decide on the sort of borrower that they want based on capability to pay and borrowing history, rather than utilizing classic underwriting procedures, says Brian Correa, co-founder and CEO of Atlantic Mutual, LLC.

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A Principal Reduction Program ultimately provides an option to the 18 million homeowners across the nation buried in damaging equity that have no other options. Loan modifications have established to be unsuccessful, and lender principal reductions are far and few among (and thats even if a borrower qualifies). Atlantic Mutual is at the forefront of the market by building a Principal Reduction Program that requires the proceeds from Wall Street and brings them to the people of Main Street. The American taxpayer can now advantage directly from the billions of dollars that have been poured into the corporate bailout.

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The premise of Atlantic Mutuals system could look easy: the far more portfolios that are bought via this plan directly translate into far more mortgage principal reductions for struggling property owners. Even so, the number of investors participating is limited. The P-PIP has only nine capital fund managers that can make purchases, and an interested investor must offer the adequate capital and be registered with a single of these nine managers. When qualified as an investor, the plan utilizes federal government TARP cash to assist investment funds acquire huge bundles of toxic assets at a discount from the banks. The savings from the government-financed purchases enables those discounts to pass to homeowners by issuing new loans at, or below, current market place worth.

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The incentives in this program for all parties involved are structured in such a way that its not unrealistic to expect to see principal reductions completed for many certified home owners over the next handful of years, explains Brooke Errett, co-founder and CFO of Atlantic Mutual, but in order for that to happen, a lot more legitimate enterprises will require to supply similar applications and more investors will need to have to step up to the plate. We also plan to continue raising bank participation by way of educating absolutely everyone on this process.

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Through their expansion, Atlantic Mutual, a residential monetary consulting firm at the forefront of mortgage principal reductions, is building the infrastructure essential to deal with the huge influx of inquiries about its exclusive Principal Reduction Program. In reality, (Ms. Errett) and I still take a few incoming calls per day to stay connected with the men and women that we are helping. I feel the biggest disconnect is that Wall Street nevertheless looks at these mortgages as numbers. Whereas, we realize that we are dealing with person home owners, and we want to meet their needs, says Mr. Correa.

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The organization encourages all home owners to get in touch with to inquire about the information of their Principal Reduction System. We pride ourselves on the transparency of our business, says Ms. Errett. We want our consumers to know that they can ask us queries about where we are with our files and what we do differently, and that they know they will get an honest, direct answer.

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As Atlantic Mutuals Principal Reduction Program becomes increasingly well-known, much more and much more home owners, stuck in an upside-down mortgage, are becoming conscious that they have options. At this point, everybody understands that it is basically a matter of acquiring the data out to homeowners. Fortunately, principal reductions are obtaining far more media coverage, and robust national advocates, like President Obama and Representative Barney Frank, support to give credibility to these applications.

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Weve come to rely on the efforts of our Congressmen to make our program possible. (Atlantic Mutuals) Principal Reduction Plan operates far more effectively with the far more progressive initiatives that we see in Congress, explains Ms. Errett. I am excited about Representative Franks initiatives on secondary mortgages encouraging lenders to work with each other only makes our job easier. I encourage all of our customers to attain out to their Congressmen to assistance such initiatives.

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But most property owners do not know about principal reduction programs, and walking away looks like the only actual selection. Mr. Correa explains that [t]hese are folks that may have the resources to make their payments, but cannot see the sense in continuing to pour funds into a hopeless investment. The Principal Reduction Plan developed by Atlantic Mutual was created to assist precisely these folks.

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Unlike the multitude of programs out there only for default borrowers at danger of foreclosure, the Atlantic Mutual Principal Reduction System provides that answer for homeowners who are up-to-date on their mortgage payments and at the moment ignored by public programs. In turn, their plan addresses the concerns of opponents of principal reductions who think such applications will lead to an concern of moral hazard, exactly where borrowers will default on their mortgages to qualify for the applications. Ms. Errett tells that [m]oral hazard isnt an issue with our plan. We encourage our clientele to stay up on their payments in reality, we call for it.

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Atlantic Mutuals Principal Reduction Plan not only demands that clientele be on-time with their payments customers need to also have documentable income and meet a tight debt-to-revenue threshold. Fortunately for most borrowers, the business has other applications (like debt management) that can assist borrowers to remove debt and qualify for the Principal Reduction System.

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When discussing the influx of principal reduction providers, Mr. Correa says, I cant speak for any person else out there, but I do know weve been functioning about the clock building a remedy to this dilemma. Our Principal Reduction System is based on a tight formula that brings taxpayer dollars back to the taxpayerthe American homeowner. In fact, our system is patent-pending. Often it just requires a little private-business enterprise to make a public plan perform. No one else does what we do the way we do it.

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The plan provides a win-win predicament for all involved. Banks win simply because they are in a position to unload their toxic paper with out possessing to clean up foreclosure right after foreclosure. Investors win simply because they are able to acquire at large discounts. Property owners win simply because they can finally get the relief they have sought right after for so long.

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And the taxpayer wins because the country is now in position to resolve the mortgage crisis even though truly utilizing private business as an alternative of spilling out much more government funds to do so. Initial glance says that this Principal Reduction Plan is a winner.

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For concerns or inquiries, please contact info(at)atlantic-mutual(dot)com or get in touch with 888.850.6772. Or, go to Atlantic Mutuals site at http://www.atlantic-mutual.com.

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For media inquiries, please get in touch with Brooke Errett at brooke(at)atlantic-mutual(dot)com.<

Modification Guide Offers Cure to Homeowners Frustration with Obama Strategy


Glendale, CA (PRWEB) August 3, 2009

Fresh off the heels of the Government Accountability Workplace criticizing President Obama’s mortgage strategy, additional help is now becoming provided to help men and women struggling with their mortgage payments. Although foreclosure numbers remain steady and frustrated home owners continue to suffer with no end in sight, an option loan modification plan is becoming supplied to give property owners access to a ten-Step formula on precisely how to get their loans modified.

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Considering that Obama’s Home Cost-effective Modification Plan (HAMP) was introduced on March 4th, lenders are now just starting to implement HAMP. It has been widely reported that borrowers have been complaining about Obama’s program considering that it was introduced. Complaints range from the inefficiency of lenders to rules violations on the component of both servicers and lenders. The outcry has been so fantastic that the Obama administration met with mortgage lenders last week to address the dilemma.

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To help homeowners in the fight to get their loans modified, the HAMP Guide program, the creation of the Loan Modification Foundation, has been produced available to property owners who need support on obtaining their lender to take action on their application.

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The HAMP Guide system supplies exclusive access to a 10-Step formula on how to get loans modified under the “Obama Strategy.” If that’s not sufficient, the guide also comes with limitless a single on one particular telephone help with negotiators to make positive home owners submit their application correctly and adhere to the actions. In addition, the program delivers live webinars with attorneys and sector experts to supply insight and method on how to get modifications completed speedily.

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Mentioned homeowner Joe Roman of Minnesota, “I tried given that last year to get help and absolutely everyone was so incompetent at HUD and Bank of America. I followed the HAMP Guide program and ultimately got into trial mod program. Very best $ 97 I ever spent. I would’ve been lost without the guide.”

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Most likely the only loan modification company with no damaging feedback on the Greater Organization Bureau internet site, the Loan Modification Foundation has received absolutely nothing but praise from property owners for the HAMP Guide program.

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“This guide puts everything on paper and with the assistance of attorneys, I haven’t observed something like it,” stated loan modification negotiator Liz Cunningham.

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With All the Obama Legislation and Speak About Loan Modifications, it really is a Wonder if Anyone Even Knows the US Loan Modification Laws


Miami, FL (PRWEB) September 10, 2009

http://www.UsLoanModificationLaw.com launched their new Loan Modification Laws internet site with the purpose of assisting consumers and businesses with the loan modification procedure by delivering them with accurate and up to date data of every state accompanied with compliance and regulations data for every single state.

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In today’s economy numerous Americans are facing foreclosure and the only location to turn appears to be in the direction of obtaining a Loan Modification, but with so many diverse businesses supplying Loan Modifications and all the diverse price tag points it is hard to know which way to go. But with a copy of the State Loan Modification Laws at hand you’ll have the understanding of realizing what the possibilities are and be much better prepared for the loan modification procedure.

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With the need for Loan Modifications rising a lot more and much more each day, it brings a lot more and far more space for companies to begin aiding and assisting Americans by means of this procedure. When a firm wants to offer you loan modifications to their customers the very first factor they want to do is turn out to be familiar with the Loan Modification Law which differs from state to state. Obtaining these laws close by is essential to a companies compliance and general future in the loan modification industry.

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Below President Obama’s Loan Modification Strategy 75 billon dollars have been allocated to aid struggling home owners remain in their property and keep the housing marketplace from continuing to plummet. Even so, more than 50% of the loans modified in the first quarter of 2008 went undesirable on their payments. Specialists say this is because early loan modifications were not appropriately engineered to function. This is why it is so essential for buyers looking for out loan modifications and Loan Modification Companies to remain up to date with the Loan Modification Laws of their state.

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The major driving factor behind a loan modification is to reduce the homeowners’ month-to-month payment, assisting them afford to stay in their home. The previous actions of the lending marketplace have lots of Americans facing rising interest prices because their loan’s fixed period has run out or they have been provided a adverse amortizing loan with a minimum payment of 1-two% till the finish of five years when the loan recasts. Then at such time the homeowner is not ready for the enormous rise or improve in their payment

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http://www.usloanmodificationlaw.com/ believes it is quite crucial for shoppers and company to know all the states’ laws in order to supply the ideal preparation for the very best achievable loan modification. UsLoanModificationLaw.com hope their internet site will be a service to all in need.

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Brookstone Law, Pc: Obama Administrations Mortgage Deal Could Exclude Borrowers from Future Action Against Banks


Newport Beach, CA (Vocus/PRWEB) March 02, 2011

Recent media reports that the Obama administration is attempting to reach an agreement with banks more than mortgage-servicing breakdowns highlights the require for homeowners facing foreclosure to have legal counsel prior to any settlement, according to Vito Torchia, Jr. managing lawyer of Brookstone Law.

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According to media reports, the Administration’s proposed settlement would require banks and loan servicers to bear the expense of write downs but provides banks the freedom to decide what these modifications will be. Those servicers would include mortgage-finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, as well as investors in loans that had been securitized by Wall Street firms. Settlement terms stay in improvement and regulators are seeking at up to 14 servicers that could be a celebration to the settlement.

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Brookstone Law, Computer, has filed a mass joinder lawsuit against Bank of America, potentially the most significant and precedent setting legal action taken against lenders as a result of the national foreclosure crisis. The lawsuit alleges Bank of America (BOA) and its subsidiary Countrywide Financial Corporation (Countrywide) perpetrated a enormous fraud, also constituting unfair competitors upon borrowers that devastated the values of their residences, resulting in the loss of net worth, and that BOA and Countrywide intended to deprive many rights and treatments for the difficulties they caused the borrowers. The case is Wright et al. v. Bank of America, N.A. et al., case no.30-2011-00449059-CU-MT-CXC filed in Orange County Superior Court.

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Now that the U.S. Government is discussing settlements that will defuse lawsuits against the banks that specifically challenge elements of mortgage securitization, the broken chain of title or MERS, principal reduction is the most critical aspect of any settlement, said Vito Torchia, Jr. Until banks and servicers totally embrace principal reductions, the thousands of homeowners who are underwater will continue to struggle and that will preserve the housing marketplace and our economy down for years.

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According to media reports in the Wall Street Journal, Federal agencies have been scrutinizing the nation’s largest banks more than breakdowns in foreclosure procedures that erupted final fall and last week, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency raised issues more than inadequate staffing and weak controls over foreclosure processes. In 2008, BOA settled claims worth more than $ eight.six billion for loans allegedly involving predatory lending practices committed by Countrywide, which it acquired that year.

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Any settlement could be amongst the biggest ever against the mortgage sector especially considering that some are pushing for banks to spend billions or fund a comparable quantity of loan workouts, stated Vito Torchia, Jr. If a single settlement can’t be reached, it is most likely various federal agencies will nonetheless seek smaller sized penalties through regular enforcement channels, so banks could face the prospect of lawsuits from state attorneys common, which indicates property owners require for professional legal counsel will be just as wonderful right after any settlement as it is now.

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Chinese Drywall Complaint Center Demands President Obama & Congress Show Up to the Chinese Drywall Disaster in Florida & Gulf States


(PRWEB) May 23, 2011

The Chinese Drywall Complaint Center says, “We have been working on the toxic Chinese drywall disaster, complete blast for two years, always considering President Obama, and his US Federal Government would ultimately show up in a meaningful way to assist the tens, and tens of thousands of fully innocent homeowners, and youngsters, stuck in toxic Chinese drywall hell all through the extreme US Southeast. We have been incorrect-President Obama, and the US Congress are no-shows.” The group says, “If any one particular wants to speak about bureaucratic incompetence, we actually require to mention the Obama Administration’s US Consumer Items Security Commission. Toxic Chinese drywall is going to prematurely kill thousands of innocent US homeowners in the US Southeast, and not 1 sheet of toxic Chinese drywall has been recalled, and the comments from this so called Items Security Commission contain the notion that blackened copper electrical wires can be saved, in properties in Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Southeast Texas, and Virginia that include toxic Chinese drywall? Ever seen what copper wires, or copper air conditioning coils appear like in a toxic Chinese drywall property-they turn black, they get pitted, and in the case of copper air conditioning coils they also leak. Now that’s got to be excellent for someone’s overall health!” http://ChineseDrywallComplaintCenter.Com

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The Chinese Drywall Complaint Center says, “On the topic of remembering President Obama’s disastrously inadequate response from his federal government, and his pledge, that never ever once again will we let bureaucratic incompetence leave disaster victims stranded and alone, we are saying where’s the change? It took James Carville blasting President Obama’s failure to lead on the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill to ultimately get a federal response in 2010. Sadly, there is no a single of James Carville’s stature to step up for the thousands, upon thousands of property owners in Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Southeast Texas, and Virginia living in toxic Chinese drywall hell. How extended will President Obama continue to ignore the imported toxic Chinese drywall disaster?” http://ChineseDrywallComplaintCenter.Com

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So what is needed now? The Chinese Drywall Complaint Center says, “Current property owners stuck in a toxic Chinese drywall house in Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Southeast Texas, and Virginia all need to get meaningful loan modification for their homes, from their bank, or loan servicing firm. We also believe the US EPA has to come up with a standardized remediation protocol, so that the repairs, or remediations of toxic Chinese drywall properties are accomplished correctly, and we think the Obama Administration demands to submit to the Chinese government the bill for this mess.” The group says, “The national press has not precisely jumped all more than this imported toxic Chinese drywall story. Even so, at some point this story will get told, and we think when the nation gets a very good sense of the scope, and size of this disaster, its going to get ugly. How lengthy does the Obama Administration get a free pass on their failure to do anything meaningful to assist the tens, and tens of thousands of US victims of imported toxic Chinese drywall disater?” http://ChineseDrywallComplaintCenter.Com

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The Law Offices of Kramer and Kaslow: How Failed Obama Foreclosure Relief Plan Contributes To Jobs Crisis


Calabasas, CA (PRWEB) June 17, 2011

Philip Kramer, lead attorney for the Law Offices of Kramer and Kaslow, not too long ago commented on a Huffington Post report reporting that President Obamas failure to resolve the housing crisis is causing unemployment to rise.

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In the article, Preeti Vissa, community reinvestment director of the Greenlining Institute, a foreclosure relief advocacy group was quoted as saying “This is an emergency. The ongoing foreclosure crisis is well on the way to dragging the complete economy into a double-dip recession if robust action isn’t taken immediately.”

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The Huffington Post goes on to state, The connection between the foreclosure crisis and rampant unemployment is nicely recognized by economists and the administration. Diving residence values and heavy debt burdens force cutbacks in each customer spending and tax revenue for nearby governments. These decreased spending levels and reduced government revenues force layoffs in each the public and private sector. And those layoffs, in turn, spur far more foreclosures.

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According to the article, on Thursday, President Barack Obama warned Property Democrats in a private meeting that the housing circumstance could drag down the entire economy. One particular House Democrat who was in the meeting complained that the president mentioned housing was the major factor dragging down the economy, with Geithner nodding solemnly like they’d completed everything humanly feasible for the final 27 months to fix the housing market.

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Phil Kramer, a noted Southern California lawyer who represents hundreds of consolidated litigation plaintiff customers suing six of the nations biggest banks for wrongful foreclosure actions sees it differently. I do not believe the administrations efforts have been adequate. Kramer states. The plan is voluntary, and if my consumers are any indication, then the system is an unmitigated disaster. I have hundreds and hundreds of clientele who have been wronged by the banks many of them over a very lengthy period of time. The government programs have completed nothing to assist these folks, and as a result the overall economy is suffering the consequences.

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Far more of Philip A. Kramers observations can be found at the Kramer and Kaslow weblog.

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PHILIP A. KRAMER is the senior partner of the Law Workplace of Kramer &amp Kaslow, in Calabasas, California. Kramer &amp Kaslow is Martindale Hubbell AV rated. Mr. Kramer is a perennial recipient of the prestigious Southern California Super Lawyer award.

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Mr. Kramer received his undergraduate degree from Ohio State University and his Juris Doctorate from the Catholic University of America, in Washington, DC. His practice emphasizes commercial litigation and trial advocacy, with a concentration on organization litigation, and real home matters. He has prosecuted and defended situations for over twenty five years.

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Mr. Kramer is a licensed true estate broker and has spent considerable time delivering legal services in connection with real estate issues relating to loan modification and loss mitigation, land use and zoning, environmental troubles, easements, building and improvement, finance, and landlord tenant matters.

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Mr. Kramer is admitted to practice prior to all courts in the State of California, the United States Supreme Court and the United States Court of Military Appeals. Mr. Kramer has tried in excess of 200 situations. He has appeared on nationally televised applications relating to pre-trial process and trial technique and has appeared as a guest lecturer on subjects ranging from constitutional law to trial practice, and Mr. Kramer frequently lectures on a broad spectrum of various legal and company problems.

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Mr. Kramer also serves as a Judge Pro Tem for the Los Angeles Superior Court and as a Mediator.

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Mr. Kramer is also a previous president of the Los Angeles West Inns of Court, a national organization devoted to bringing professionalism and civility back into the legal profession. He also serves on quite a few Boards of Directors and serves as an officer in a lot of firms. For more data contact (818) 224-3900 or pay a visit to http://kramer-kaslow.com

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McGeough Lamacchia Realty Outlines What Is Missing from Romney and Obama Housing Plans


Waltham, MA (PRWEB) October 09, 2012

John McGeough and Anthony Lamacchia, co-brokers and owners of McGeough Lamacchia Realty, say that although both plans from the candidates focus mostly on assisting distressed property owners, they require to concentrate more on preventing men and women from becoming distressed home owners and supporting the bigger portion of home owners who are the men and women who can afford their properties.

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The Romney Housing Strategy calls for promoting off vacant houses owned by the government, assisting troubled home owners steer clear of foreclosure by producing it less difficult to do brief sales and deeds-in-lieu of foreclosure, and reforming the government-owned sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Romneys housing plan also calls for replacing the Dodd-Frank Act with easier, much more sensible regulation.

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The Obama Housing Plan proposes to invest $ 15 billion into rehabilitating and refurbishing hundreds of thousands of vacant and foreclosed properties and companies and to transition foreclosed home into rental housing. Obamas plan also calls for Broad Based Refinancing for borrowers who are present on their payments to refinance their houses and will expand the Home Inexpensive Mortgage Program (HAMP) eligibility to reduce additional foreclosures.

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McGeough Lamacchia Realty outlines five main issues which are not addressed in these housing plans:

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The first concern outlined is to extend the Mortgage Relief Act which is set to expire at the finish of the year. This Act relieves distressed homeowners from obtaining to pay federal taxes on the quantity of debt that was forgiven in a refinance or loan modification, short sale, or foreclosure.

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In Obamas spending budget proposal for 2013, he did contact for an extension of this Act through January 1, 2015, but the clock is ticking, says Anthony Lamacchia. This requirements to be pointed out as component of an general housing plan that protects struggling home owners facing foreclosure.

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The second concern is to preserve the Mortgage Interest Deduction which has been a component of the federal tax code for nearly a hundred years.

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The Mortgage Interest Deduction has been about since 1913 and it is a great incentive for owning a property. Eliminating or decreasing this incentive at a time like this would be very poor policy on behalf of our government, says John McGeough.

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McGeough Lamacchia Realty says a sound Housing Strategy from either candidate must include guarding the Mortgage Interest Deduction.

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McGeough Lamacchia Realty says extending the so-referred to as Bush Tax Cuts (also known as the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance coverage Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010), is the third item that requirements to be component of the conversation for improving the housing market. Several provisions of this law went into impact which includes a single that decreased the tax rate on capital gains to a maximum of 15%.

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For men and women who own investment home, the capital gains tax will improve if they are not extended beyond the finish of this year. Right now for home owners in the lowest two income tax brackets of 10 or 15 %, the extended-term gains are tax cost-free. But if the tax cuts expire, the ten % bracket will collapse into the 15 percent bracket, and taxes for this bracket will go from to 10 %. For home owners in the earnings brackets above 15 %, the long term capital gains tax will increase to 20 %.

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The fourth item that is not getting discussed is how the Payroll Tax Cut hurts homeowners. In December of final year, President Obama signed the Payroll Tax Cut extension, but homeowners are paying Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to spend to Treasury for the tax credit. The charges Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac charge to insure property mortgages improved to from .three percent to .4 %. For a homeowner with a $ 200,000 mortgage, that implies their monthly mortgage payment would be about $ 17 greater or an extra $ 6,000 more than the course of a 30-year loan.

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Property owners with bigger mortgages spend far more. McGeough Lamacchia Realty says money should not be taken out of peoples mortgages to pay for other government debts like the payroll tax law.

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And ultimately, McGeough Lamacchia Realty says the housing plans ought to incorporate keeping Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac rather than reform or replace them.

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Soon after the housing bubble burst, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac had been placed into conservatorships in September 2008 and have given that received $ 188 billion in taxpayer support. McGeough Lamacchia cites they have already began to pay back the debt and are producing cash once more. In August, Fannie Mae reported a net income of $ five.1 Billion for the Second Quarter, and Freddie Mac reported a net income of $ 3 billion for the exact same time period. Fannie and Freddie have repaid about $ 46 billion to the Treasury in dividends and have not had to draw on Treasury funds for the second quarter of 2012.

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Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac enable banks to offer you home loans to low- and middle-revenue purchasers who otherwise might not have been in a position to get a mortgage. McGeough Lamacchia Realty says without having them, mortgages would be much more costly for everybody, which is why they must be kept.

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McGeough Lamacchia Realty says each candidates want to contain these 5 points in their housing plans.

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For a complete comparison of the Romney and Obama Housing Plans, visit the New England True Estate Weblog.

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About McGeough Lamacchia:

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McGeough Lamacchia Realty is the number 1 Real Estate Agency in Massachusetts and named one of the quickest developing Real Estate Organizations in the U.S in 2012 by Inc. Magazine. They are a complete service actual estate agency serving home buyers and sellers Massachusetts and New Hampshire.

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Obama Program for a Housing Recovery&#13

Romney Housing Program: Securing the American Dream and the Future of Housing Policy&#13

Fannie Mae reports a net earnings of 5.1 Billion for the Second Quarter&#13

Freddie Mac reports a net income of $ 3 Billion

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Health Pros Ask President Obama and FDA to End Non-Therapeutic Use of Antibiotics in Animal Agriculture in a Letter Co-Sponsored by Well being Care Without having Harm

Washington, DC (PRWEB) June 04, 2013

Well being Care Without having Harm (HCWH), Healthful Meals Action, and the Pew Charitable Trusts delivered a letter with signatures from 795 well being professionals to President Barack Obama today, urging him to stress the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to act on stalled policies to reduce the overuse and misuse of antibiotics in meals animal production.

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“Current patterns of antibiotic use in agriculture not only improve the danger of antibiotic-resistant infections in men and women but also assistance an agricultural system that harms public and environmental well being,” says Ted Schettler, MD, Science Director for the Science and Environmental Overall health Network and Science Advisor for HCWH.

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Close to 30 million pounds of the antibiotics sold in the United States are utilized in animal agriculture. Most of these are used for non-therapeutic purposes like advertising growth and compensating for overcrowded and unsanitary living situations. Many of these antibiotics are also medically crucial, and utilised to treat illnesses in humans.

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There is overwhelming scientific consensus that overuse of antibiotics in livestock is a health hazard to men and women, says Thomas Newman, MD, a member of the faculty at the School of Medicine at University of California at San Francisco Healthcare Center. Far more than 300 leading health-related organizations, including the American Health-related Association, the American Public Overall health Association, and the American Academy of Pediatrics have advocated ending the non-therapeutic use of antibiotics as feed additives.

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“The antibiotic resistance crisis is expanding worse every single day. Physicians are seeing a lot more and more sufferers with antibiotic resistant infections in hospitals, and we are cleaning up our personal act by curbing our personal overuse of antibiotics in clinical practice, states Robert Gould, MD, President of San Francisco Bay Location Physicians for Social Duty. But this is not sufficient. We now recognize that feeding healthy animals antibiotics contributes enormously to this difficulty. As well being professionals fundamentally concerned with the wellness of our individuals, we urge President Obama to demonstrate his leadership on this issue by joining our demand that the livestock business and the FDA promptly right this significant threat to public well being.

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The letter asks the President to pressure the FDA to move forward with mandatory withdrawals of unsafe uses of antibiotics, and to publicly report better data on livestock antibiotic sales to inform the public health neighborhood about emerging disease threats. The letter can be located on the internet.

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