Category: Law
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) [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]