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	<title>Comments on: Senator Dorgan&#8217;s Office Now Collecting Deceptive Mortgage Advertising</title>
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		<title>By: Joshua</title>
		<link>http://raincityguide.com/2008/04/07/senator-dorgans-office-now-collecting-deceptive-mortgage-advertising/#comment-319613</link>
		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:44:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Two days ago I clicked on a LMB.com ad thinking that it was some kind of online quiz that would give me an idea of what I could expect if I refinanced.

What did I get?  When I clicked for my results, it told me I was going to be contacted by several lenders.  Imagine my surprise.  Sure enough, within minutes I was contacted by 4 companies.

I told each of them the story and apoligized for taking their time.  But one &quot;Bill Glick&quot; from Quicken Loans wouldn&#039;t let me go, so I finally told him I was going to hang up.  Ever since, he keeps calling me and claims &quot;I can&#039;t hear you, sorry the phone must not be working, please call me so I can talk to you about your loan application.&quot;

He even left me a voicemail stating that he &quot;was worried&quot; and was going to call 911 and tell them I had an emergency at my house because we &quot;keep being disconnected.&quot;  Seems my hanging up means I&#039;m medically unfit.

I have been trying to call LMB and get them to do something, but no one seems to care that a lender would harrass someone.  is this the way to sell a loan?

I&#039;m in sales, and I can&#039;t imagine how Bill&#039;s actions could possibly get him sales, yet I can&#039;t seem to get the guy off my mind, as he calls me 4 times a day claiming he can&#039;t hear me.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Two days ago I clicked on a LMB.com ad thinking that it was some kind of online quiz that would give me an idea of what I could expect if I refinanced.</p>
<p>What did I get?  When I clicked for my results, it told me I was going to be contacted by several lenders.  Imagine my surprise.  Sure enough, within minutes I was contacted by 4 companies.</p>
<p>I told each of them the story and apoligized for taking their time.  But one &#8220;Bill Glick&#8221; from Quicken Loans wouldn&#8217;t let me go, so I finally told him I was going to hang up.  Ever since, he keeps calling me and claims &#8220;I can&#8217;t hear you, sorry the phone must not be working, please call me so I can talk to you about your loan application.&#8221;</p>
<p>He even left me a voicemail stating that he &#8220;was worried&#8221; and was going to call 911 and tell them I had an emergency at my house because we &#8220;keep being disconnected.&#8221;  Seems my hanging up means I&#8217;m medically unfit.</p>
<p>I have been trying to call LMB and get them to do something, but no one seems to care that a lender would harrass someone.  is this the way to sell a loan?</p>
<p>I&#8217;m in sales, and I can&#8217;t imagine how Bill&#8217;s actions could possibly get him sales, yet I can&#8217;t seem to get the guy off my mind, as he calls me 4 times a day claiming he can&#8217;t hear me.</p>
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		<title>By: Kary L. Krismer</title>
		<link>http://raincityguide.com/2008/04/07/senator-dorgans-office-now-collecting-deceptive-mortgage-advertising/#comment-312244</link>
		<dc:creator>Kary L. Krismer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:22:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dan, I&#039;m not certain, but I&#039;m pretty sure that individuals have private rights of action under TILA, etc.  So it&#039;s not like the banks could violated these acts with impunity.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dan, I&#8217;m not certain, but I&#8217;m pretty sure that individuals have private rights of action under TILA, etc.  So it&#8217;s not like the banks could violated these acts with impunity.</p>
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		<title>By: Jillayne Schlicke</title>
		<link>http://raincityguide.com/2008/04/07/senator-dorgans-office-now-collecting-deceptive-mortgage-advertising/#comment-312237</link>
		<dc:creator>Jillayne Schlicke</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:13:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I received an ad today in my spam bin advertising 4% interest rates from a &quot;ChristianFamilyLoans.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I received an ad today in my spam bin advertising 4% interest rates from a &#8220;ChristianFamilyLoans.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: dan o</title>
		<link>http://raincityguide.com/2008/04/07/senator-dorgans-office-now-collecting-deceptive-mortgage-advertising/#comment-306953</link>
		<dc:creator>dan o</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:56:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Its sad senator dorgan has to get involved in enforcing truth in lending act, reg-z or respa

We have laws are 30 years old that nobody has been enforcing. I think there&#039;s a story here.  Why?  Government bureaucrats with a job for life?  Corruption - people on the dole of ameriquest and countrywide?  No funding for enforcement? 

Kudos to senator dorgan for trying to do so.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Its sad senator dorgan has to get involved in enforcing truth in lending act, reg-z or respa</p>
<p>We have laws are 30 years old that nobody has been enforcing. I think there&#8217;s a story here.  Why?  Government bureaucrats with a job for life?  Corruption &#8211; people on the dole of ameriquest and countrywide?  No funding for enforcement? </p>
<p>Kudos to senator dorgan for trying to do so.</p>
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		<title>By: james peterson</title>
		<link>http://raincityguide.com/2008/04/07/senator-dorgans-office-now-collecting-deceptive-mortgage-advertising/#comment-306936</link>
		<dc:creator>james peterson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I don&#039;t think the Lowermybill ads were any different than anything anybody else was or has been running.   Lowermy is not even a lender.  They are a referral service.  I filled out a Lowermybill ad and four lenders called me to compete for my business.  Aren&#039;t the lenders the ones that are required to tell consumers the terms of the contract being signed between the lender and the consumer

Check out this story on Countrywide today if you don&#039;t like &quot;interest rate drops again&quot;

http://pardonmyfrench.typepad.com/pardonmyfrench/2008/04/countrywide-bor.html

B of a is buying countrywide, I would assume they approve of the ad</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#8217;t think the Lowermybill ads were any different than anything anybody else was or has been running.   Lowermy is not even a lender.  They are a referral service.  I filled out a Lowermybill ad and four lenders called me to compete for my business.  Aren&#8217;t the lenders the ones that are required to tell consumers the terms of the contract being signed between the lender and the consumer</p>
<p>Check out this story on Countrywide today if you don&#8217;t like &#8220;interest rate drops again&#8221;</p>
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<p>B of a is buying countrywide, I would assume they approve of the ad</p>
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		<title>By: Jillayne Schlicke</title>
		<link>http://raincityguide.com/2008/04/07/senator-dorgans-office-now-collecting-deceptive-mortgage-advertising/#comment-305013</link>
		<dc:creator>Jillayne Schlicke</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 22:43:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi RickB,

Thanks for stopping by RCG.  If you still have the originals, fax them to Allen at Senator Dorgan&#039;s office: 202-224-1193.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi RickB,</p>
<p>Thanks for stopping by RCG.  If you still have the originals, fax them to Allen at Senator Dorgan&#8217;s office: 202-224-1193.</p>
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		<title>By: RickB</title>
		<link>http://raincityguide.com/2008/04/07/senator-dorgans-office-now-collecting-deceptive-mortgage-advertising/#comment-304981</link>
		<dc:creator>RickB</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 22:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>In this vein, as a brand-new homeowner, I&#039;m a bit disgruntled to have received these two offers with deceptive elements in my mailbox:

-A &quot;mortgage insurance&quot; offer that will (supposedly) pay off the loan if I die, become disabled, etc. The deceptive element: at the top, in big letters, it says &quot;Complete and return&quot; right next to the name of my loan origination company and details of my loan amount. Of course, in tiny print at the bottom, it says something like: Loan information obtained from public records and for reference only. If I wasn&#039;t paying attention, I could be led to believe that this was something my lender was requiring from me--after all, they required so many other &quot;insurances&quot; during the loan process.

-A &quot;biweekly&quot; mortgage payment scheme that somehow will magically save me thousands of dollars with no effort on my part. Reference to any costs or downside is in tiny print, and generally downplayed as much as possible. And again, my lender&#039;s name and my loan information are sprinkled liberally throughout to make it appear more official...

Thankfully, I&#039;m in full possession of my mental faculties, have a naturally skeptical disposition, and was warned by my loan officer and escrow person to expect this kind of thing. If I were a little more gullible or easily confused, I could easily be taken in for quite a bit of money; money which I didn&#039;t need to spend...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In this vein, as a brand-new homeowner, I&#8217;m a bit disgruntled to have received these two offers with deceptive elements in my mailbox:</p>
<p>-A &#8220;mortgage insurance&#8221; offer that will (supposedly) pay off the loan if I die, become disabled, etc. The deceptive element: at the top, in big letters, it says &#8220;Complete and return&#8221; right next to the name of my loan origination company and details of my loan amount. Of course, in tiny print at the bottom, it says something like: Loan information obtained from public records and for reference only. If I wasn&#8217;t paying attention, I could be led to believe that this was something my lender was requiring from me&#8211;after all, they required so many other &#8220;insurances&#8221; during the loan process.</p>
<p>-A &#8220;biweekly&#8221; mortgage payment scheme that somehow will magically save me thousands of dollars with no effort on my part. Reference to any costs or downside is in tiny print, and generally downplayed as much as possible. And again, my lender&#8217;s name and my loan information are sprinkled liberally throughout to make it appear more official&#8230;</p>
<p>Thankfully, I&#8217;m in full possession of my mental faculties, have a naturally skeptical disposition, and was warned by my loan officer and escrow person to expect this kind of thing. If I were a little more gullible or easily confused, I could easily be taken in for quite a bit of money; money which I didn&#8217;t need to spend&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Jillayne Schlicke</title>
		<link>http://raincityguide.com/2008/04/07/senator-dorgans-office-now-collecting-deceptive-mortgage-advertising/#comment-304855</link>
		<dc:creator>Jillayne Schlicke</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:09:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Have you broken your ARM?&quot; Is your adjustable rate mortgage about to go up? New rates as low as 1.25%&quot;


That&#039;s really bad. Refinance your ARM into....another ARM.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Have you broken your ARM?&#8221; Is your adjustable rate mortgage about to go up? New rates as low as 1.25%&#8221;</p>
<p>That&#8217;s really bad. Refinance your ARM into&#8230;.another ARM.</p>
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		<title>By: Jillayne Schlicke</title>
		<link>http://raincityguide.com/2008/04/07/senator-dorgans-office-now-collecting-deceptive-mortgage-advertising/#comment-304852</link>
		<dc:creator>Jillayne Schlicke</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:07:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Here&#039;s another one:

2.6% fixed minimum payment for five years for home loans up to 4 million. No income verification: Okay.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here&#8217;s another one:</p>
<p>2.6% fixed minimum payment for five years for home loans up to 4 million. No income verification: Okay.</p>
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		<title>By: Jillayne Schlicke</title>
		<link>http://raincityguide.com/2008/04/07/senator-dorgans-office-now-collecting-deceptive-mortgage-advertising/#comment-304851</link>
		<dc:creator>Jillayne Schlicke</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:05:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Just received this ad:

New rates as low as 1.95% purchase, refi, or cash out.  1.95% fixed payment. No income/asset verification, bankruptcy and foreclosure? Okay! We can close your loan in 10 days...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just received this ad:</p>
<p>New rates as low as 1.95% purchase, refi, or cash out.  1.95% fixed payment. No income/asset verification, bankruptcy and foreclosure? Okay! We can close your loan in 10 days&#8230;</p>
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