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www.youtube.com/bestbuy - Musician and Best Buy employee, Keith Parsons, rocks his Best Buy holiday campaign audition.
22 Comments
- inactive, on 04/17/2009, -1/+13HI MY NAME IS PATTY AND I'M YOUR AGENT!
I'm going to speak really loudly and excited about whatever over-priced piece of cr@p house I try to shove down your throat! Did you notice my makeup and perfume? I put WAY too much on. It's my way of trying to cover up the 45 pounds I gained after I have birth to my kid. My husband then lost interest in me and now has sex with Thai hookers when he goes on business trips for his WIlly Lomanesque sales trips! Can I interest you in this split-level Colonial which has gone 500% in the past six months? The markets fueled by low interest, interest only loans which will entrap you like an 18th century negro south of the Mason Dixon Line-
hi, I'm Patty! - inactive, on 04/17/2009, -0/+7how come these people can get away with stealing from people for so long, oh yeah they aren't stealing from business or the government so business and the government could not give a *****.
- kalvinb, on 04/18/2009, -0/+5I bought less of a home than I could afford. Lenders and buyers were both being greedy and stupid if they ended up making a deal on a house the buyer couldn't afford for the life of the loan. The lender didn't care because they just sold the mortgage to the next sucker in line. The buyer was just a greedy fool.
- mobislink, on 04/17/2009, -2/+6The real estate agents that talked so many people into buying over price homes that they could not afford are just as guilty as these scammers. Same with the lenders and the appraisers of these homes. They are all guilty of doing the wrong thing for their monetary best interest. There are so many people at fault for this whole mess that will go unpunished. This is what happens in a materialistic driven society. I like to have nice things like everybody else but I would no screw up a families future to get those things.
- wannaBdug, on 04/16/2009, -1/+5Thanks for the tips
- techguy82, on 04/16/2009, -1/+5An eye opener! Thanks for sharing...
- Mothrog, on 04/18/2009, -2/+5Oh yes, it's the real estate agents, the lenders, and the appraisers faults that stupid people bought homes they couldn't afford. You know who's fault it really is? The ***** who decided to buy the ***** house.
- Khast, on 04/18/2009, -0/+3I get telemarketers calling me almost every other night...it's never the same company. They all tell me that I have been approved for my mortgage refinancing, and that they can help me.
I guess these clowns don't realize, I rent. - peestandingup, on 04/18/2009, -0/+3Patty, I like your style!
- Barackalypse, on 04/18/2009, -2/+5The biggest scam of them all was the $800 billion TARP bailout and you couldn't have avoided it because it was the Government doing it.
- WesleyD, on 04/18/2009, -0/+2HI PATTY, MY NAME IS BILLY MAYS!
- Pseudorious, on 04/18/2009, -0/+2I'm left thinking that one should avoid all foreclosure scams, especially if they're nasty, not just this five.
- olenick, on 04/18/2009, -0/+1If you're sued for foreclosure, or sued for anything else (a foreclosure is a lawsuit), hire a lawyer immediately. Not a mortgage broker, not a real-estate agent, not your cousin who knows somebody that talks to banks, and definitely not a telemarketer. Hire a licensed attorney with experience dealing w/ the issue you've been sued for.
For foreclosures these are usually bankruptcy lawyers though there are some that deal exclusively w/ foreclosure defense. They should have been doing pretty much the same thing for at least five years, and should work only for debtors, not creditors (banks) and debtors. Don't worry about a bankruptcy lawyer pushing you into bankruptcy: they actually do better financially by renegotiating your debt (fewer hours for the same pay).
Even if you don't want to keep your foreclosed on house; even if you feel like you deserve to lose your house, even if your bank says there's nothing that can be done, a lawyer is the absolute most likely to make either a happy ending, or at least a least miserable one. If you want to actually keep your house, and are still making money, they might actually be able to renegotiate your mortgage. Scam-artists say they can but they can't show up in court with a club; even if they knew what to do when they get there they're not able to advocate and argue on your behalf and the banks know it.
If you're in foreclosure you're obviously broke, but scape together some money -- lawyers aren't as expensive as you'd think (in the long-run they'll usually save you money) -- and they're the only one's the banks might actually work with. - kingamoon, on 04/18/2009, -1/+2Thanks for having them all on a single page.
- Wingin, on 04/18/2009, -1/+2Good digg. People need to know about these cruel scams.
- nat014, on 04/20/2009, -0/+1Just wish that more would be done to catch those scam. If you are aware it goes on then you just ignore them but what about all those that innocently believe a lot more should be done to prevent and protect them.
- kingamoon, on 04/18/2009, -2/+2Shut up.
- drivebuytech1, on 05/28/2009, -0/+0I agree, EMarketer. It's all about your level of experience and familiarity with buying and selling properties that will determine who you work with. It's important to develop that intuition. I would also echo some other commenter by saying that while there are scammers and bad dudes in any corner of nearly any market, this does not reflect a lack of legitimacy to the foreclosure industry. Anything that is "hot" will draw undesirables out of the wood work. If you're on Twitter, you know what I mean!
- PeppermintPig, on 04/18/2009, -1/+1More government bailout created moral hazards! Awesome!!!
- EMarketer13, on 04/19/2009, -0/+0Definitely find a professional that has experience, or better yet a company so you can actually login to an online system and track the progress of your case. I wouldn't treat the "don't pay up front" as an iron-clad rule, obviously you'll have a hard time convincing an BK attorney to work for free. There are also companies that have attorneys and forensic loan auditors on staff that are quite effective at getting things done.
The worst thing about all this is that so many of the sub prime mortgage brokers who got us into this mess to begin with have come in and screwed the country a second time. By scamming so many people, it's tainted the entire industry with the press screaming that everyone is just scam on one side, and government regulation on the other side.
The end result most people just walk away from their house/do nothing and add another foreclosed house to the inventory, when they really could have been helped by a competent professional. - machine117, on 04/18/2009, -1/+1#1 Is not always true. I happen to work IT for a law firm doing this very thing. The difference is that it costs $2000 total and the attorneys + about 10 paralegals acutally do successfully work on the cases and acutally do what they claim to do. They do collect up front, so that law they speak of is probably only a state law and not applicable in florida.
I'm not trying to make an advertisement for them, but if anyone is actually interested in who and where they are just reply to me. - jtown, on 04/18/2009, -0/+0So I shouldn't have called the number I saw taped to a light pole on my way to work? But the hand-written "Mortgage Adjustments" seemed so genuine and heartfelt. The guy's obviously not spending my money on fancy ads.
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