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Published Wednesday, July 22, 2009 | 7:49 a.m.
Updated Wednesday, July 22, 2009 | 6:02 p.m.
Sun Coverage
WASHINGTON - Unable to get your mortgage lender on the phone?
Try putting the muscle of the Senate Majority Leader's office behind your call.
Sen. Harry Reid is putting five Nevada staffers on the housing beat, making them available to help constituents trying to avoid foreclosure.
The senator's staff will operate as caseworkers, helping homeowners figure out their best option and getting them in touch with lenders.
“One of the biggest complaints I get from people fighting to stay in their homes is that they can’t get anyone on the phone to talk to them,” Reid said in a statement. "That’s how I can help.”
Reid's office said the senator won’t be able to solve every problem. But he will help homeowners get in touch with those who may be able to help with financial counseling, legal aid and other services.
For housing help, call the senator's offices at (702) 388-5020 or (775) 686-5750.
Nevada’s other lawmakers note that they, too, have staff ready to assist homeowners avoid foreclosure.
Democratic Rep. Shelley Berkley said homeowners in her Las Vegas-area district can call her office at (702) 220-9823.
Republican Sen. John Ensign’s office said its staff can help Spanish-speakers and those using sign language.
Now that the Las Vegas housing market is fully engulfed in flames Senator Harry Reid agrees to send in the 'volunteer' fire department to put out the flames. Maybe...if he can find some water!
I have been sending requests for assistance to Senator Harry Reid's office for months concerning the fraudulent foreclosure of my home by Bank of America.
As of this date... NO Contact or assistance from Senator Harry Reid.
Good Luck to you in your efforts...your gonna need it!
Hey Harry,how about putting all the illeagls in these foreclosed homes? Your so hard pressed to give them the same rights as born on american soil "AMERICANS"!STOP GIVEING OUR TAX MONEY AWAY,AND DO THE WORK YOU WERE PUT THERE FOR BY THE PEOPLE WHOM PUT YOU THERE! AMERICAN CITIZENS!!!
Harry Reid IS part of the problem. The BEST thing for us to do is vote Harry Reid OUT of office and elect someone who's gonna actually fix our nation.
great job senator...
for a us senator to take this action speaks volumes...
for our poor poor terribly misguided republican friends to continue to criticze you...
ingore them...
they have issues...
serious issues...
think joe the plumber...
not really a plumber...
not really a business owner...
not really a man who would benefit by republican policies...
it just makes them feel better to play make believe...
and they are all loud mouth blowhards...
hee hee hee...
hoo hoo hoo...
haa haa haa...
Hey birdbrain,hello this is earth,have we met?Please tell me that uncle harry is gonna make things all better?I keep clicking my heals together just like you,but all i see is the truth!GREAT JOB SENATOR?You have got to be kidding me?Him Polosi and booma are gonna run this country into the ground AT FULL SPEED!
One last thing birdbrain,if you are so dead set on yelling hooray for this fool,go stand on any corner in vegas with a sign stateing how great harry is. Then come back here and tell us how fast you were egged!
Mr. Reid, your swift action has been noted, you've got to be one of the first to recognize there is a foreclosure problem. Now someone whom has lost their job, bought a home with no money down and has always had poor credit is going to be helped how?
Remember TARP (troubled asset rescue plan) was specifically targeted towards foreclosures? Oh that's right the money went to AIG, the banks and to save GM. Now you folks have a new one HARP (housing assistance rescue plan) was supposed to help 2 million, so far it's helped 13,000 for the whole country, it's a failure.
Mr. Reid you have made it very clear that your numero uno goal right now is re-election in November 2010, a year and a half away. How's that stimulus bill nobody read doing?
And what's Ensign doing to help Nevadans?
Oh that's right, NOTHING! Ensign is content with staying in his Washington office and having his family pay off former employees to keep quite about his affair.
Way to look out for the little guy that got screwed under the Republican's "watchful" eye.
How many foreclosures in the state last month? I think it was around 1,000 or so.
So Mr. Genius puts 5 people on the task. Do the math, this isn't going to work. Unreal. Besides if folks can't get jobs how the hell are the supposed to pay the rent?
It is obvious Mr. Reid does not care about this state anymore. He is simply playing defense to the disaster that is occuring here.
He is the Majority Leader and just is not getting the job done for Nevada.
I keep seeing phrases like "fraudulent foreclosure" and "illegally evicted." I'm not understanding these terms. I've never heard of one person foreclosed on or evicted that actually made their house payments per the contract they signed.
yea sent harry a email about a issue and a email came back and said that it is not in his power to help i must do it at the state level i said (what)so the federal level is not higher then state level well tell next time i vote i will say why do i need this guy
What's Ensign's office doing? Besides embracing that mad-man Adolf Hitler? Who's methods are embraced by the theoreticians of his C Street Hitler House.
Good job Senator Reid. I'm sure the Republicans will be the first to call after they cash their unemployment checks.
what's ensign doing???
he is checking with mommy and daddy first...
hee hee hee...
hoo hoo hoo...
haa haa haa...
what a sorry pathetic clown ensign is!!!
I also emailed our illustrious Senator Reid earlier this year and got a reply to go to consumer counseling. That was soooo helpful.
And, how long has this problem been going on? And, now he wants to help?
Shows how much he has been sleeping on the job. Or maybe he is focusing too much about getting a train to Victorville!!!
Its kind of hard to see the truth when you beleive what everyone tells you!Birdbrain you just keep believeing what uncle harry aunt polosi and cousin Booma tell you.SOMEDAY YOUR DREAMS MAY COME TRUE?AND ONCE AGAIN,IM NEITHER REPOOPLICAN,NOR DEMOCRAP!IM A US CITIZEN GETTING TIRED OF BEING TOLD HOW TO RUN MY LIFE,AND STILL WAITING FOR THERE ACTIONS TO BECOME REALITY?OH YA,ITS ONLY GONNA TAKE A FEW MORE YEARS TILL WERE ALL BANKRUPT!THATS GONNA BE THE REALITY!!!
thumper and rumrunner...
midwesterners...
hmmm...
is that kind of like being an alaskan???
do you celebrate your averageness...
do you suffer from delusions of grandeur...
do you brag about your handicapped child...
do you brag about your teenage daughter having a child...
are you dumb as a bag of rocks...
hmmm...
well...
far as i can tell...
the dumb as a bag of rocks clearly applies to you two clowns!!!
I have got to know one thing from some of these blind peoples post? So your ok with these new clowns giveing our tax money away,and still no jobs?Look up how many home owners have been helped! The numbers are stagering,in favor of illeagals!Go to the wealfare office and see whos getting assitance?illegals!Go to any hotel in town and see whom is working?ILLEGALS! And you still think these people have you in mind?haaa hooo heeee YOU FOOL!!!
how long before he becomes overwhelemed in the tsuanmi of phone calls? will we get a news article when Reid's office throws in the towel?
THE ONLY ONE I SEE SUFFERING HERE IS YOU BIRDBRAIN!YOUR SEA OF RETARDATION MUST BE GETTING FULL?IF IT HASNT FLOWED OVER YET!I LL BE THINKING ABOUT YOU AS I SIT ON MY OWN PROPERTY,AND HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS SO CALLED GOVERNMENT!WHILE ON THE OTHER HAND YOU WILL STILL BE RELYING ON YOUR FOOD STAMPS AND GOVERNMENT ASSITANCE!!!I DONT NEED THERE HELP! I OWN EVERYTHING I HAVE!
And another thing,if you really think help is on the way,go ask some of your troops that keep you safe at night there thoughts on our leaders?I dont think youd walk away from that one!LIES BEGET LIES,AND BEFORE LONG THEY WILL BELEIVE IT THEMSELVES!OH WAIT,THEY ALREADY HAVE! YOUR PROOF ENOUGH!!!
Thumper,
Please don't write another poem! That article does not at all contradict my previous post or prove it inaccurate.
This is pathetic display. The politicians are not the problem, the citizens are. Neither Reid or Ensign are great politicians, although I think Reid is probably smarter and less a hypocrite than Ensign, but the fine citizens of nevada elected them.
Until you all get better educated, informed and less self centered nothing is going to change.
So keep up the childish posts, believe everything you read in the paper or hear on TV and let someone else do your thinking for you. Right or left.
Nevada is screwed because the people who live here are screwy, intellectually lazy, hypocrites.
Cronky, well put. Voters must realize we ARE NOT confined to two Partys. There are many others out there and once voters cast their selection with their conscience rather what the two party system is telling them then we can rid all this corruption. Hence, you throw your vote away only when you don't vote with your conscience.
I think someone thumped your head too many times. Ditto my last post, with this latest article.
Is there an election in the near future??.. I guess now us little homeowners no matter...PINKY to the rescue! yeah right... what a sad attempt to buy some votes, although I hear a song softly playing in my ear...."na na na na, na na na, hey hey hey, goodbye......"
The "I Hate Harry" association would be hilarious if it wasn't so serious. There are copious quantities of these toxic Limbaugh ditto heads which are helping to keep Nevada politically, economically and socially retarded. Life is too short to be surrounded by such mass stupidity. I'm counting the days.
Great Harry. Too bad the sexual predator John Ensign will do Nothing.
We have only one senator working for us.
John ensign is busy...
CarsonNewshound, you sum it up rather succinctly.
CronkyVoddy, I with you as well.
You just can't fix stupid.
Thumper, as usual you are useless and boring.
this just in...
johnnie boy ensign is still waiting for mommy and daddy to tell him what to do...
how sad is it to have a senator that goes running to mommy and daddy...
what a disgrace!!!
Dina Titus appointed a recovery coordinator in her Henderson office back in March of this year. Her name is Susan Petersen 387-4941. Most people caught in the housing meltdown are angry and some of them rightfully so, others, not so much. But, whatever the situation, keep calling everyone and anyone for an ear.
The banks are being total a$$hole$ in almost every situation, whether on the foreclosure end or the selling end of the foreclosure. The listing agents are the local culprits, playing games with offers, etc. It's the same old story of greed and incompetency even after the fact of the meltdown.
Top level corporate fat cats just haven't gotten the message. They are acting as invincible since they got the bailout, and jerking every day citizens around in every possible way.
My EXCELLENT credit score has dropped to FAIR, and I haven't done a thing except pay more than the amount due. My interest rate on my credit cards have doubled, for no reason other than they CAN do it.
These fatcats don't regulate themselves; they NEED government intervention and an enema.
I so can not wait to Say "Bye Bye Harry" What a dismal mess you left the nation in! I will never forgive you!
Ditto that AngryReader,
Can we get a word limit placed on Thumper?
Don't get me wrong, I don't like Obama either. I like the idea of a black president, but I have a huge problem with the socialist policies that are coming out of his administration.
But I totally agree that Thumper is a boring windbag.
Great solution, the problem is not getting through, the problem is you cannot get a straight answer from the bank, the problem is bank's have no incentive, FHA loans do qualify, the interest rate program is a farce.....it you are 70,000 underwater, who cares about the interest rate, you will still not be competitive in the real estate market in ten years. Reid must be replaced by dems and reps......
it is with deep regret...
and much humility...
that i admit...
that i crossed the line...
to all of our igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic friends out there...
i hereby apologize...
you clearly provide the foundation upon which civilization is built...
moreover...
your bretheren in sedona are simply spectacular...
you clearly are far worthier than our poor poor terribly misguided republican friends thumper and rumrunner...
i apologize...
please forgive me...
johnnie boy ensign is still waiting for mommy and daddy to tell him what to do...
what a pathetic clown johnnie boy ensign is!!!
i thought these were supposed to be for friendly exchanges - hmmm - maybe the participants are Las Vegas high school dropouts?
Wow, better late than never. We needed these people back 2008/2007. How about giving us our homes back that we've lost, I noticed Bank of America seems to be the popular bank on here. Yeah they were mine too. But if these so called politicans want to help us, give us back our homes.
Yes of course. Because everyone deserves a home they can't afford.
Thumper, I'm not sure why but you are becoming increasingly belligerent. I'm guessing it's a medication issue. You should read over your own posts and take note that you fail to ever engage in intelligent discussion or make a valid point. You are not only long-winded, but you are very boring and not at all funny. I know you think you're funny, but you're not. Life is short, so I've decided not to waste time reading anything you post. Get some help freak show.
Nevada Land Development: Corruption Or Politics?
* Nevada
* Government / Politics
* The Los Angeles Times
Posted by: Chris Steins
Thanks to: Laura Kranz
23 June 2003 - 11:00am
The Los Angeles Times runs a two-part expose on Nevada Senator Harry Reid's corruption in trading money for development opportunities.
"What Reid did not explain was that the bill promised a cavalcade of benefits to real estate developers, corporations and local institutions that were paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in lobbying fees to his sons' and son-in-law's firms, federal lobbyist reports show.... The governments of three of Nevada's biggest cities -- Las Vegas, North Las Vegas and Henderson -- also gained from the legislation, which freed up tens of thousands of acres of federal land for development and annexation. All three were represented by Reid's family members who contacted his staff on their clients' behalf."
https://www.planetizen.com/node/10402
http://www.westlx.org/HarryReid.pdf
http://www.electricnevada.com/pages03/re...
The liberals (read Harry Reid, et al) don't want to solve the problem with housing. They can continue to blame Bush. If they wanted to, all they need to do is to reduce the depreciation from 39.5 years to 20 years and people would invest in the market and absorb the excess; rents would drop and the recovery could begin but then it isn't the people who work for a living they want to save. It is the deadbeats that should not have had the loans in the beginning. These socialists will destroy our country; there must be a revolution.
I knew it wouldnt take long to hear uncle Harry blame the black list on Bush too.Keep supporting this poor excuse!!!