Reply #85: It's in public record data [View All]

I used to work for a company that aggregates and resells real estate data. I know where to find that kind of information.

When I read a sob story about how some innocent family got screwed by a bank, I like to take a peek to see if there is significant information that was not included in the writeup. Most of the time there is something that puts a different light on things. Usually people who get paraded out as victims of a cruel system have contributed in some way to their own problems.

This is not to exonerate banks for the kind of abuse described in this story. What that one did is reprehensible. The bank should have contacted the couple before things got as bad as they did.

Of course the story doesn't give a detailed account of what letters and phone calls the bank may have made. The real and only purpose of the piece is to garner sympathy so that more people read it, which makes advertising more valuable.