{"id":23567,"date":"2010-12-22T03:30:43","date_gmt":"2010-12-22T03:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/homes_at_risk_and_no_help_from_lawyers\/"},"modified":"2010-12-22T03:30:43","modified_gmt":"2010-12-22T03:30:43","slug":"homes_at_risk_and_no_help_from_lawyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23567","title":{"rendered":"Homes at Risk, and No Help From Lawyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In California, where foreclosures are more abundant than in any other state, homeowners trying to win a loan modification have always had a tough time.<\/p>\n<p>Now they face yet another obstacle: hiring a lawyer.<\/p>\n<p>Sharon Bell, a retiree who lives in Laguna Niguel, southeast of Los Angeles, needs a modification to keep her home. She says she is scared of her bank and its plentiful resources, so much so that she cannot even open its certified letters inquiring where her mortgage payments may be. Yet the half-dozen lawyers she has called have refused to represent her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey said they couldn\u2019t help,\u201d\u009d said Ms. Bell, 63. \u201cBut I\u2019ve got to find help, because I\u2019m dying every day.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/12\/21\/business\/21foreclosure.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In California, where foreclosures are more abundant than in any other state, homeowners trying to win a loan modification have always had a tough time. Now they face yet another obstacle: hiring a lawyer. Sharon Bell, a retiree who lives<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23567\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,582,149,600,114,151,619,585,601],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-economy","category-housingreal-estate-market","category-law-legal-issues","category-politics-in-general","category-state-government","category-the-banking-systemsector","category-the-fiscal-stimulus-package-of-2009"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}