New York Times - Media Blitz - Loan Modification Forum

davephx · 11-01-2009, 07:06 PM

With the great petition this creates in my view a great media blitz opportunity.

The NY Times articles usually get picked up by the national/international wire services.

I may be helpful for many folks to "blitz" the newsdesk

The e-mail is nytnews@nytimes.com

I also have a editor contact that I worked closely with when they broke another major story but totally unrelated. I am also trying to get his attention.

I'm next heading for the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times of London. If the story gets picked up by a major news source and hits the wires every paper in the U.S. (or world) can run it. Oh yes the AZ Republic.

I'll leave the TV media to others. I can't be on TV and they usually want something visual. Newspapers may be easier to get a story into.

I suggest locals try the LA Times and other newspapers small or large.

Especially hope to get in on the AP and other wire services.

The more folks send to different papers and multiple contacts to the same papers the more likely it will get attention and the petition is a great news piece at least in my view.

This is what I sent - short to the point but others may do better:

Regarding Home Affordability Modifications (HAMP)

"We believe all servicers must do more to reach struggling homeowners faster," Treasury spokeswoman Meg Reilly said."

Reaching is NOT THE ISSUE. It is easy to get on trials often going for 6 months instead of 3 in the HAMP directives. The
issue is being able to get final modifications even if all the directives for getting them are followed.

Most servicers, and Fannie and Freddie as investors are backlogged for many months since there is to much "reaching"
going on to get more in the pipeline they can't process. Its getting the modification approved that is the huge problem.

If your denied often for reasons not part of the requirements they can foreclose and sell without notice immediately. That is
even in the Trial Agreement Document.

Desperate Home Owners Petition Congress For Help
PETITION TO THE U.S. GOVERNMENT FROM AMERICAN HOMEOWNERS | Petition2Congress |

bloominga · 11-01-2009, 07:25 PM

I'll send a few out tonight and hopefully it will be good timing.
I'm on a roll today.

Catherine got me fired up. Dave this is a great idea!! My mother had a saying, "Strike while the iron is hot".

Let's do it!!

BobandArlyn · 11-01-2009, 07:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by davephx

With the great petition this creates in my view a great media blitz opportunity.

I suggest locals try the LA Times and other newspapers small or large.

Today I sent our local Sonoma County newspaper, Press Democrat, our story, together with links to LoanSafe to see what we are all talking about as well as the link to the letter Catherine got posted on the other blog. I will let you know what I hear back.

Good luck everyone.

Arlyn

Desperate Home Owners Petition Congress For Help

PETITION TO THE U.S. GOVERNMENT FROM AMERICAN HOMEOWNERS | Petition2Congress |

davephx · 11-01-2009, 07:38 PM

Well... I gave up on trying to reach a news desk for the WSJ or Financial Times. Seems they rely just on their huge staff for news unless I just couldn't find it.

I did track down good articles using search for "foreclosure" or "HAMP" which usually thought I meant HEMP!

The idea is to find an editor that has written related articles and sometimes will be a link to them but not in this case. I can post in blogs of WSJ but have to use full name which am not willing to do in public.

I did submit to USA Today as a Press Release Category at
Contact Us: Feedback, Comments & Suggestions - USATODAY.com

For the Arizona Republic I sent it to editor with lots of related articles via:
azcentral.com - members

caldwellb02 · 11-01-2009, 07:40 PM

FYI all - I changed "rightdowns" to "writedowns" on the petition. Can't remember who recommended that, but it is done.

davephx · 11-01-2009, 08:30 PM

E-mail from USA TODAY - Editorial Department (KMM7257602V29274L0KM)

Thank you for taking the time to send us your press release. Although we
cannot respond to all of your submissions, we will ensure that the
appropriate section editor receives your announcement.

Thank you for your interest in USA TODAY.

Edtiorial

davephx · 11-01-2009, 08:33 PM

E-mail from NY Times

THANK YOU for writing The New York Times. We are
grateful to readers who take the
time to help us report thoroughly and
accurately. Your message will reach the
appropriate editor or reporter promptly.

What happens now that your message has been
received, or if you have more questions?

ACCURACY: If you have pointed out an error, a
correction will appear on Page A2 as soon as
possible. Corrections for articles in weekly
sections usually appear in those sections.
Because dozens of readers often point out the
same error, we cannot notify each person that we
are publishing a correction. Please accept our
thanks now.

If we decide that a correction is not necessary,
an editor or a reporter will be in touch to
explain our reasons.

NEWS COVERAGE: If you are writing to give us
feedback on our coverage, your message will be
forwarded to the appropriate department. Because
of the volume of e-mail we receive, we cannot
respond to every comment. But we pay respectful
attention to all messages, even those that are
part of organized letter-writing campaigns, for
which we are not staffed to reply individually.

davephx · 11-01-2009, 09:01 PM

I also e-mailed the quoted person from Treasury
Meg.reiley@do.treas.gov

AZOwner · 11-01-2009, 09:06 PM

right behind you, Dave. Everytime I try to get to the AZ Contacts List, I see you have emailed another trophy! so, I'm right behind you. . . but don't blink!

Thank you.

bloominga · 11-01-2009, 09:10 PM

If he trips, he'll take both of us with him!!

AZOwner · 11-01-2009, 09:15 PM

TheSec@doc.gov

newstips@arizonarepublic.com

info@arizonabbb.org

davephx · 11-01-2009, 09:55 PM

>If he trips, he'll take both of us with him!

Cute.. and now I'm chasing AZowners contacts.

BTW looks like the meg reiley e-mail is bad was posted someplace here but bounced:
Delivery has failed to these recipients or distribution lists:
meg.reiley@do.treas.gov
The recipient's e-mail address was not found in the recipient's e-mail system. Microsoft Exchange will not try to redeliver this message for you. Please check the e-mail address and try resending this message, or provide the following diagnostic text to your system administrator.

bloominga · 11-01-2009, 10:13 PM

Meg's email has an _underscore_ before and after. Take it out and it should go.

bloominga · 11-01-2009, 10:43 PM

Sorry, it must be misspelled ........I just now got Meg's back too.

davephx · 11-01-2009, 10:49 PM

I did find a Financial Times blog to post on but may not have wide following
FT.com | Money Supply | Economic news digest

Also
Mortgage Modifications: Statistically Insignificant | Sense on Cents

And
HAMP Government Mortgage Relief | Finance Articles

And good California blog entry at
Brown Calls on Banks and Loan Servicers to Detail Plans to Stem New Wave of Foreclosures | California RealEstateRama

And
Inside The Law: Do You Qualify For HAMP? Fox5 News Henderson NV
Typical news ignorance saying how its working so great. Legal guy very excited about it.
Inside The Law: Do You Qualify For HAMP? - Topix
Wow, the comments here on the TV station are very hard to post. Cant use even a period, quotes or / so can't include website for petition.

I have no idea why in some of my posts the line ends are off even when I manually correct them. I am pasting from a txt file with no coding format.

I keep changing slightly and spelled implementation wrong but now corrected it.

bloominga · 11-01-2009, 11:06 PM

I'm adding your finds to my list here. I found that a lot of the sites are going to the forms to send email. I think the security issues, spam and virus problems have become too expensive to keep after so they us the forms. I personally hate them.

I'm going to see what I can post before I go to bed and then start again in the morning. Not sure how long we'll leave the petition out there or if the site has a limit before they pull it but we should keep the media blitz going for a few days. At least that's my opinion.

I think we have a member that would be more than willing to check the spelling before we send anything out.

davephx · 11-01-2009, 11:21 PM

Well Meg Reilly has a linked listing but have to be a premium member to use the contact her option.

I find her phone, but e-mail would be easier. If anyone want to try and call:
CONTACT: Meg Reilly, Treasury Public Affairs (202) 622-2960

More entries I did..well tried to do...
Success of Treasury's Foreclosure Prevention Program Questioned - ABC News
Well you have to log in which I did... I think.. but didn't seem to post.
Have to use IE it seems can't see comments in Firefox which I use 99%
OK logged in did post and all I can get it an error: There was a problem with this page. Please try again.
The article which quotes Reilly is from Oct 9th so may be too old to post to.

Another failure - on ABC news you can send to different shows which I tried to do:
Network Programming Feedback - ABC News

Well... limited to 500 characters, only for program feedback and don't like this warning so didn't try:

Note: The Company's long-established policy does not allow us to accept for review or consideration any ideas, suggestions, or creative materials not solicited by us or our subsidiaries. Therefore, in the event that you have submitted such content, please be advised that the submission has been forwarded to the Company's legal department for handling.

davephx · 11-01-2009, 11:24 PM

I don't think there is any time limit for the petition? It is at 1000 sent now which is great!

Yes the forms are a pain but they probably get lots of spam e-mail also.

bloominga · 11-01-2009, 11:29 PM

It looks like Meg's name needs another 'l'. I'm going to try it. Reilly

3rd time may be a charm.

davephx · 11-01-2009, 11:42 PM

And no ley like someone posted.

Just tried meg.reilly@do.treas.gov

My smtp log shows:
20091101 23:36:14 34651 18 Received from localhost ([127.0.0.1])
20091101 23:36:14 34651 18 Processing recipients in server [do.treas.gov]
20091101 23:36:14 34651 18 Delivery via IDE from 192.168.0.199:0
20091101 23:36:14 34651 18 DNS: 192.168.0.1
20091101 23:36:14 34651 18 Connecting to MX server mx-relay24.treas.gov
20091101 23:36:15 34651 18 MX server mx-relay24.treas.gov connected.
20091101 23:36:15 34651 18 To: meg.reilly@do.treas.gov
20091101 23:36:16 34651 18 Delivery success

But the server also took it the other way and than bounced so waiting....

Well it has been about 5 minutes and so far its stuck - no bounce...

davephx · 11-02-2009, 12:04 AM

NEW IDEA

There are zillions of real estate agent blogs all over the net that have comments that can be posted.

A blitz might be done on Realtor blogs with the petition.

But I have to get back to earning some money and spending less time here and on these projects! Will have to plant the idea for others to do that project.

I keep revising my e-mail and post slightly. My latest version which I'm sure you can do better with but takes advantage of the Meg Reilly comment which was from a few days ago and has wide media coverage:

Regarding Home Affordability Modifications (HAMP)

The HAMP program is very good for what it was designed to do. But it is the servicers implementation that is the problem.

Desperate Home Owners Petition Congress For Help
PETITION TO THE U.S. GOVERNMENT FROM AMERICAN HOMEOWNERS | Petition2Congress |

"We believe all servicers must do more to reach struggling homeowners faster," Treasury spokeswoman Meg Reilly said."

Reaching is NOT THE ISSUE. It is easy to get on trials but they often are required for 6 months instead of 3 per the HAMP directives. The issue is being able to get final modifications as often the directives are not followed and additional requirements are being imposed by servicers and lenders.

Most servicers, and Fannie and Freddie as investors are backlogged for many months since there is to much "reaching" going on to get more in the pipeline they can't process. Its getting the modification approved that is the huge problem.

It is common to have to resend the same documents many times as the servicers either intentionally lose them or are just too overwhelmed. Than they claim they aren't getting the documents that have been mailed or faxed repeatedly.

If you are denied, often for reasons not part of the requirements, they can foreclose and sell without notice immediately. That power to sell is even in the Trial Agreement Document.

bloominga · 11-02-2009, 12:04 AM

They are checking the little box beside my name that says "banned from commenting". Oh well, can't blame me for trying.

Edward Pinto: Loan Modification Numbers Are Completely Phony

bloominga · 11-02-2009, 12:10 AM

Thanks Dave. I'm going to bed for tonight but this is just exploding in my head now. We can surely find enough places to post this so that I might get myself banned from the internet completely.

That's what my mother always disliked about me....I just say what I think and do as I daxx well please.

davephx · 11-02-2009, 12:10 AM

banned?

My gosh what did you say

But Dottie Kile obviously from here posted as she did on some of my other links with the petition.

bloominga · 11-02-2009, 12:58 AM

Dave, didn't you say that it was time to go make some money???

I guess it would have been better to keep my identity a secret but it's too late now. It's also good that I was let go last year even though I only needed a little more time for that piece of paper that said "Thanks for 25 years of loyalty to the company." They would have let me go had they found out I was doing this. It sheds a bad light on the integrity of the company when you exercise freedom of speech like this.

They offered to let us use payroll deductions to donate to the PAC to pursue their agenda.

I'm out of here. This is addicting.

11-01-2009, 07:06 PM	#1 (permalink)
davephx Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 1,143 Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTW/F/M Award(s): 0	New York Times - Media Blitz With the great petition this creates in my view a great media blitz opportunity. The NY Times articles usually get picked up by the national/international wire services. I may be helpful for many folks to "blitz" the newsdesk The e-mail is nytnews@nytimes.com I also have a editor contact that I worked closely with when they broke another major story but totally unrelated. I am also trying to get his attention. I'm next heading for the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times of London. If the story gets picked up by a major news source and hits the wires every paper in the U.S. (or world) can run it. Oh yes the AZ Republic. I'll leave the TV media to others. I can't be on TV and they usually want something visual. Newspapers may be easier to get a story into. I suggest locals try the LA Times and other newspapers small or large. Especially hope to get in on the AP and other wire services. The more folks send to different papers and multiple contacts to the same papers the more likely it will get attention and the petition is a great news piece at least in my view. This is what I sent - short to the point but others may do better: Regarding Home Affordability Modifications (HAMP) "We believe all servicers must do more to reach struggling homeowners faster," Treasury spokeswoman Meg Reilly said." Reaching is NOT THE ISSUE. It is easy to get on trials often going for 6 months instead of 3 in the HAMP directives. The issue is being able to get final modifications even if all the directives for getting them are followed. Most servicers, and Fannie and Freddie as investors are backlogged for many months since there is to much "reaching" going on to get more in the pipeline they can't process. Its getting the modification approved that is the huge problem. If your denied often for reasons not part of the requirements they can foreclose and sell without notice immediately. That is even in the Trial Agreement Document. Desperate Home Owners Petition Congress For Help PETITION TO THE U.S. GOVERNMENT FROM AMERICAN HOMEOWNERS \| Petition2Congress \|

11-01-2009, 07:25 PM	#2 (permalink)
bloominga Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Georgia - 55 mi NW of Atlanta Posts: 304 Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTW/F/M Award(s): 0	Re: New York Times - Media Blitz I'll send a few out tonight and hopefully it will be good timing. I'm on a roll today. Catherine got me fired up. Dave this is a great idea!! My mother had a saying, "Strike while the iron is hot". Let's do it!! __________________ http://www.petition2congress.com/2/2564/

11-01-2009, 07:38 PM	#4 (permalink)
davephx Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 1,143 Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTW/F/M Award(s): 0	Re: New York Times - Media Blitz Well... I gave up on trying to reach a news desk for the WSJ or Financial Times. Seems they rely just on their huge staff for news unless I just couldn't find it. I did track down good articles using search for "foreclosure" or "HAMP" which usually thought I meant HEMP! The idea is to find an editor that has written related articles and sometimes will be a link to them but not in this case. I can post in blogs of WSJ but have to use full name which am not willing to do in public. I did submit to USA Today as a Press Release Category at Contact Us: Feedback, Comments & Suggestions - USATODAY.com For the Arizona Republic I sent it to editor with lots of related articles via: azcentral.com - members

11-01-2009, 07:40 PM	#5 (permalink)
caldwellb02 Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Northern CA Posts: 1,764 Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTW/F/M Award(s): 0	Re: New York Times - Media Blitz FYI all - I changed "rightdowns" to "writedowns" on the petition. Can't remember who recommended that, but it is done.

11-01-2009, 08:30 PM	#6 (permalink)
davephx Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 1,143 Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTW/F/M Award(s): 0	Re: New York Times - Media Blitz E-mail from USA TODAY - Editorial Department (KMM7257602V29274L0KM) Thank you for taking the time to send us your press release. Although we cannot respond to all of your submissions, we will ensure that the appropriate section editor receives your announcement. Thank you for your interest in USA TODAY. Edtiorial

11-01-2009, 08:33 PM	#7 (permalink)
davephx Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 1,143 Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTW/F/M Award(s): 0	Re: New York Times - Media Blitz E-mail from NY Times THANK YOU for writing The New York Times. We are grateful to readers who take the time to help us report thoroughly and accurately. Your message will reach the appropriate editor or reporter promptly. What happens now that your message has been received, or if you have more questions? ACCURACY: If you have pointed out an error, a correction will appear on Page A2 as soon as possible. Corrections for articles in weekly sections usually appear in those sections. Because dozens of readers often point out the same error, we cannot notify each person that we are publishing a correction. Please accept our thanks now. If we decide that a correction is not necessary, an editor or a reporter will be in touch to explain our reasons. NEWS COVERAGE: If you are writing to give us feedback on our coverage, your message will be forwarded to the appropriate department. Because of the volume of e-mail we receive, we cannot respond to every comment. But we pay respectful attention to all messages, even those that are part of organized letter-writing campaigns, for which we are not staffed to reply individually.

11-01-2009, 09:01 PM	#8 (permalink)
davephx Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 1,143 Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTW/F/M Award(s): 0	Re: New York Times - Media Blitz I also e-mailed the quoted person from Treasury Meg.reiley@do.treas.gov

11-01-2009, 09:06 PM	#9 (permalink)
AZOwner Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Phoenix, AZ area Posts: 320 Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTW/F/M Award(s): 0	Re: New York Times - Media Blitz right behind you, Dave. Everytime I try to get to the AZ Contacts List, I see you have emailed another trophy! so, I'm right behind you. . . but don't blink! Thank you. __________________ PETITION TO THE U.S. GOVERNMENT FROM AMERICAN HOMEOWNERS \| Petition2Congress \| Our Huffington Post Article: (leave a comment) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richar..._b_342665.html

11-01-2009, 09:10 PM	#10 (permalink)
bloominga Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Georgia - 55 mi NW of Atlanta Posts: 304 Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTW/F/M Award(s): 0	Re: New York Times - Media Blitz If he trips, he'll take both of us with him!! __________________ http://www.petition2congress.com/2/2564/

11-01-2009, 09:15 PM	#11 (permalink)
AZOwner Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Phoenix, AZ area Posts: 320 Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTW/F/M Award(s): 0	Re: New York Times - Media Blitz TheSec@doc.gov newstips@arizonarepublic.com info@arizonabbb.org __________________ PETITION TO THE U.S. GOVERNMENT FROM AMERICAN HOMEOWNERS \| Petition2Congress \| Our Huffington Post Article: (leave a comment) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richar..._b_342665.html

11-01-2009, 09:55 PM	#12 (permalink)
davephx Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 1,143 Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTW/F/M Award(s): 0	Re: New York Times - Media Blitz >If he trips, he'll take both of us with him! Cute.. and now I'm chasing AZowners contacts. BTW looks like the meg reiley e-mail is bad was posted someplace here but bounced: Delivery has failed to these recipients or distribution lists: meg.reiley@do.treas.gov The recipient's e-mail address was not found in the recipient's e-mail system. Microsoft Exchange will not try to redeliver this message for you. Please check the e-mail address and try resending this message, or provide the following diagnostic text to your system administrator.

11-01-2009, 10:13 PM	#13 (permalink)
bloominga Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Georgia - 55 mi NW of Atlanta Posts: 304 Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTW/F/M Award(s): 0	Re: New York Times - Media Blitz Meg's email has an _underscore_ before and after. Take it out and it should go. __________________ http://www.petition2congress.com/2/2564/

11-01-2009, 10:43 PM	#14 (permalink)
bloominga Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Georgia - 55 mi NW of Atlanta Posts: 304 Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTW/F/M Award(s): 0	Re: New York Times - Media Blitz Sorry, it must be misspelled ........I just now got Meg's back too. __________________ http://www.petition2congress.com/2/2564/

11-01-2009, 10:49 PM	#15 (permalink)
davephx Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 1,143 Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTW/F/M Award(s): 0	Re: New York Times - Media Blitz I did find a Financial Times blog to post on but may not have wide following FT.com \| Money Supply \| Economic news digest Also Mortgage Modifications: Statistically Insignificant \| Sense on Cents And HAMP Government Mortgage Relief \| Finance Articles And good California blog entry at Brown Calls on Banks and Loan Servicers to Detail Plans to Stem New Wave of Foreclosures \| California RealEstateRama And Inside The Law: Do You Qualify For HAMP? Fox5 News Henderson NV Typical news ignorance saying how its working so great. Legal guy very excited about it. Inside The Law: Do You Qualify For HAMP? - Topix Wow, the comments here on the TV station are very hard to post. Cant use even a period, quotes or / so can't include website for petition. I have no idea why in some of my posts the line ends are off even when I manually correct them. I am pasting from a txt file with no coding format. I keep changing slightly and spelled implementation wrong but now corrected it.

11-01-2009, 11:06 PM	#16 (permalink)
bloominga Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Georgia - 55 mi NW of Atlanta Posts: 304 Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTW/F/M Award(s): 0	Re: New York Times - Media Blitz I'm adding your finds to my list here. I found that a lot of the sites are going to the forms to send email. I think the security issues, spam and virus problems have become too expensive to keep after so they us the forms. I personally hate them. I'm going to see what I can post before I go to bed and then start again in the morning. Not sure how long we'll leave the petition out there or if the site has a limit before they pull it but we should keep the media blitz going for a few days. At least that's my opinion. I think we have a member that would be more than willing to check the spelling before we send anything out. __________________ http://www.petition2congress.com/2/2564/

11-01-2009, 11:21 PM	#17 (permalink)
davephx Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 1,143 Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTW/F/M Award(s): 0	Re: New York Times - Media Blitz Well Meg Reilly has a linked listing but have to be a premium member to use the contact her option. I find her phone, but e-mail would be easier. If anyone want to try and call: CONTACT: Meg Reilly, Treasury Public Affairs (202) 622-2960 More entries I did..well tried to do... Success of Treasury's Foreclosure Prevention Program Questioned - ABC News Well you have to log in which I did... I think.. but didn't seem to post. Have to use IE it seems can't see comments in Firefox which I use 99% OK logged in did post and all I can get it an error: There was a problem with this page. Please try again. The article which quotes Reilly is from Oct 9th so may be too old to post to. Another failure - on ABC news you can send to different shows which I tried to do: Network Programming Feedback - ABC News Well... limited to 500 characters, only for program feedback and don't like this warning so didn't try: Note: The Company's long-established policy does not allow us to accept for review or consideration any ideas, suggestions, or creative materials not solicited by us or our subsidiaries. Therefore, in the event that you have submitted such content, please be advised that the submission has been forwarded to the Company's legal department for handling.

11-01-2009, 11:24 PM	#18 (permalink)
davephx Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 1,143 Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTW/F/M Award(s): 0	Re: New York Times - Media Blitz I don't think there is any time limit for the petition? It is at 1000 sent now which is great! Yes the forms are a pain but they probably get lots of spam e-mail also.

11-01-2009, 11:29 PM	#19 (permalink)
bloominga Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Georgia - 55 mi NW of Atlanta Posts: 304 Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTW/F/M Award(s): 0	Re: New York Times - Media Blitz It looks like Meg's name needs another 'l'. I'm going to try it. Reilly 3rd time may be a charm. __________________ http://www.petition2congress.com/2/2564/

11-01-2009, 11:42 PM	#20 (permalink)
davephx Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 1,143 Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTW/F/M Award(s): 0	Re: New York Times - Media Blitz And no ley like someone posted. Just tried meg.reilly@do.treas.gov My smtp log shows: 20091101 23:36:14 34651 18 Received from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) 20091101 23:36:14 34651 18 Processing recipients in server [do.treas.gov] 20091101 23:36:14 34651 18 Delivery via IDE from 192.168.0.199:0 20091101 23:36:14 34651 18 DNS: 192.168.0.1 20091101 23:36:14 34651 18 Connecting to MX server mx-relay24.treas.gov 20091101 23:36:15 34651 18 MX server mx-relay24.treas.gov connected. 20091101 23:36:15 34651 18 To: meg.reilly@do.treas.gov 20091101 23:36:16 34651 18 Delivery success But the server also took it the other way and than bounced so waiting.... Well it has been about 5 minutes and so far its stuck - no bounce...

11-02-2009, 12:04 AM	#21 (permalink)
davephx Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 1,143 Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTW/F/M Award(s): 0	Re: New York Times - Media Blitz NEW IDEA There are zillions of real estate agent blogs all over the net that have comments that can be posted. A blitz might be done on Realtor blogs with the petition. But I have to get back to earning some money and spending less time here and on these projects! Will have to plant the idea for others to do that project. I keep revising my e-mail and post slightly. My latest version which I'm sure you can do better with but takes advantage of the Meg Reilly comment which was from a few days ago and has wide media coverage: Regarding Home Affordability Modifications (HAMP) The HAMP program is very good for what it was designed to do. But it is the servicers implementation that is the problem. Desperate Home Owners Petition Congress For Help PETITION TO THE U.S. GOVERNMENT FROM AMERICAN HOMEOWNERS \| Petition2Congress \| "We believe all servicers must do more to reach struggling homeowners faster," Treasury spokeswoman Meg Reilly said." Reaching is NOT THE ISSUE. It is easy to get on trials but they often are required for 6 months instead of 3 per the HAMP directives. The issue is being able to get final modifications as often the directives are not followed and additional requirements are being imposed by servicers and lenders. Most servicers, and Fannie and Freddie as investors are backlogged for many months since there is to much "reaching" going on to get more in the pipeline they can't process. Its getting the modification approved that is the huge problem. It is common to have to resend the same documents many times as the servicers either intentionally lose them or are just too overwhelmed. Than they claim they aren't getting the documents that have been mailed or faxed repeatedly. If you are denied, often for reasons not part of the requirements, they can foreclose and sell without notice immediately. That power to sell is even in the Trial Agreement Document. Last edited by davephx; 11-02-2009 at 12:07 AM..

11-02-2009, 12:04 AM	#22 (permalink)
bloominga Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Georgia - 55 mi NW of Atlanta Posts: 304 Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTW/F/M Award(s): 0	Re: New York Times - Media Blitz They are checking the little box beside my name that says "banned from commenting". Oh well, can't blame me for trying. Edward Pinto: Loan Modification Numbers Are Completely Phony __________________ http://www.petition2congress.com/2/2564/

11-02-2009, 12:10 AM	#23 (permalink)
bloominga Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Georgia - 55 mi NW of Atlanta Posts: 304 Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTW/F/M Award(s): 0	Re: New York Times - Media Blitz Thanks Dave. I'm going to bed for tonight but this is just exploding in my head now. We can surely find enough places to post this so that I might get myself banned from the internet completely. That's what my mother always disliked about me....I just say what I think and do as I daxx well please. __________________ http://www.petition2congress.com/2/2564/

11-02-2009, 12:10 AM	#24 (permalink)
davephx Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 1,143 Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTW/F/M Award(s): 0	Re: New York Times - Media Blitz banned? My gosh what did you say But Dottie Kile obviously from here posted as she did on some of my other links with the petition.

11-02-2009, 12:58 AM	#25 (permalink)
bloominga Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Georgia - 55 mi NW of Atlanta Posts: 304 Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTW/F/M Award(s): 0	Re: New York Times - Media Blitz Dave, didn't you say that it was time to go make some money??? I guess it would have been better to keep my identity a secret but it's too late now. It's also good that I was let go last year even though I only needed a little more time for that piece of paper that said "Thanks for 25 years of loyalty to the company." They would have let me go had they found out I was doing this. It sheds a bad light on the integrity of the company when you exercise freedom of speech like this. They offered to let us use payroll deductions to donate to the PAC to pursue their agenda. I'm out of here. This is addicting. __________________ http://www.petition2congress.com/2/2564/

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