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For Oriane and Norman Rousseau, their hopes of keeping the modest California house that had been their dream home ended with a loud noise while Oriane was in the kitchen.
Norman's suicide on May 13 was the worst possible end for the Rousseau's nightmarish experience of America's foreclosure crisis. But it was a long, surreal and twisted journey to get there. It began in May 2009, when Wachovia, now part of Wells Fargo, told the Rousseaus they had missed a mortgage payment on their home in Newbury Park, an hour outside Los Angeles.
Even though the Rousseaus had made the payment – and had the receipt to prove it – that kicked off a foreclosure process they were never able to escape, battling against the seemingly careless bureaucracy of a major American bank that eventually took their home.
I just got off the horn with these fools after they screwed up my automatic withdrawl for my mortgage payment. Two hours wasted with these idiots and they still don't see how an extra zero makes a difference.
Yes it is. I read that story yesterday. It won't go anywhere the politicians will get pressure from the lobbyists and this will get quietly dismissed. Ya know who cares that people are losing their lives because of their actions.
Simply disgusting what these banks are doing to people.
Too many vague points in the story to conclude. Add in the fact that this is the Guardian (known for poor investigative journalism in verifying the facts in their stories), I am going to say I am having difficulty coming to a specific conclusion.
Does every issue have to turn into a Democrat/Republican Liberal/Conservative slug fest?
Can't we all agree we're not pleased with our government and corporations? We'd be able to enact change a lot faster if we all stuck together.
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