Category: Law

Survival rule two: double tap: Part 2, Nut up or shut up

16 May, 2013 (09:00) | Foreclosure, Housing, Law, liens, Markets, Rental, US News | No comments

[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]   By:David A. Smith   We are all orphans in Zombieland   I could tell she knew what I was feeling, we all are orphans in Zombieland – Columbus, from Zombieland   When dealing with a foreclosure-limbo property, imprecisely if visually presented by two stories in Reuters (March 28, 2013) [...]

Survival rule two: double tap: Part 1, Woulda, coulda, shoulda

15 May, 2013 (10:13) | Foreclosure, Housing, Law, liens, Markets, Rental, US News | No comments

By:David A. Smith     In those moments where you’re not quite sure if the undead are really dead, dead, don’t get all stingy with your bullets. I mean, one more clean shot to the head, and this lady could have avoided becoming a human Happy Meal. Woulda … coulda … shoulda. – Columbus, from [...]

The price of charity: Part 5, “never foreclosed on any loan”

3 May, 2013 (09:00) | Cambridge, Chapter 93A, consumer protection, Development, fiduciary duty, Homeownership, Just-A-Start, Law, Lending, Litigation, Non-Profits, Renovation | No comments

[Continued from yesterday's Part 4 and the preceding Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.]   By:David A. Smith   Sources for this story include the Cambridge Chronicle (January 11, 2013) and Cambridge Chronicle (January 18, 2013) (brown font), Cambridge Day (December 28, 2012) (green font), and a Letter to the Editor published in the [...]

The price of charity: Part 4, “should be held to a higher standard”

2 May, 2013 (09:00) | Cambridge, Chapter 93A, consumer protection, Development, fiduciary duty, Homeownership, Just-A-Start, Law, Lending, Litigation, Non-Profits, Renovation | No comments

[Continued from yesterday's Part 3 and the preceding Part 1 and Part 2.]   By:David A. Smith   Sources for this story include the Cambridge Chronicle (January 11, 2013) and Cambridge Chronicle (January 18, 2013) (brown font), Cambridge Day (December 28, 2012) (green font), and a Letter to the Editor published in the Cambridge Chronicle (January [...]

The price of charity: Part 3, “a friend and ad hoc legal advisor”

1 May, 2013 (09:00) | Cambridge, Chapter 93A, consumer protection, Development, fiduciary duty, Homeownership, Just-A-Start, Law, Lending, Litigation, Non-Profits, Renovation | No comments

[Continued from yesterday's Part 2 and the preceding Part 1.]   By:David A. Smith   By the end of yesterday’s post, elderly Cambridge homeowner Shirley Graham had borrowed from Just-A-Start Corporation to renovate her triple-decker to correct dilapidation of its foundation structure with the installation of an I-beam.   Still dissatisfied seven years later: Shirley [...]