Homeowner Activists Will Be Crushed Under Their Own Weight

Columnist Richard Zombeck writes in The Huffington Post:

• Homeowner activists will be crushed under the sheer weight of their gigantic egos; 11 million blogs, websites, and Facebook pages; intellectual dishonesty; Internet turf wars; and a stranglehold on information -- leaving homeowners sifting through debris for decades.
  
  
• Since 2009, which by most people's naive assessment is when the housing crisis and foreclosure fiasco began, the Internet has become littered with self-proclaimed mortgage experts and homeowner activists doing little more than drawing attention to themselves and pointing to their manufactured biographies and made up resumes. A vast majority of these bloggers do little to help homeowners and, in many cases, are doing irreparable harm with histrionics, inane screeching, disparate calls to action, and ignorant advice for struggling and desperate homeowners.
  
  
• Every once in a while someone will pop up in the news or on a blog to take personal credit for having exposed "robo-signing" or for having coined the term "mortgage servicing fraud." The media has been all too accommodating and eager to present these clowns as "citizen heroes" without a shred of research into their backgrounds, expertise, or credibility.
  
  
• As a result, these re-branded former traders, mortgage brokers, and, in some cases, convicted felons are allowed to pass themselves off as concerned citizens. In actuality, much of the mortgage mess was being discussed long before what many consider ground zero - as early as 2005 in some cases. (See: ML-Implode, MSFraud, and GetDShirtz.)

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