The Federal Trade Commission has some helpful tips if you feel like you’re on the verge of being unable to make the payments on your home: Know Your Mortgage Do you know what kind of mortgage you have? Do you know whether your payments are going to increase? If you can’t tell by reading the [...]
Continue reading...Friday, April 23, 2010
I live in a neighborhood with lots of kids. When one of them has a fundraiser, they know I’m an easy mark. Every February I dread the onlsaught of Girl Scouts, well not so much the Girl Scouts, but the cookies they bear. But when it comes to strangers soliciting me, I have a simple [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, March 11, 2010
Colorado Attorney General John Suthers announced March 9th that attorneys from the Consumer Protection Section have reached a settlement with attorneys Jack H. Boyajian, Marvin Brandon and Karen Nations, their four law firms and one associated business barring them from violating Colorado’s debt-collection and consumer-protection laws. The consent decree, approved Monday, March 8, by a [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 9, 2010
In recognition of National Consumer Protection Week, the Colorado Attorney General released a list of the top consumer complaints of 2009, published here for your information: Type of business/Number of Complaints Rebate offers 631 Utility complaints (cable and satellite television) 254 Roofing and gutter contractors 193 Health food and nutritional supplements 145 Timeshare resales and [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Colorado Law Compass wants to congratulate Texas lawyer Bill Ogletree for yesterday’s wave of unwanted attention in the blawgosphere. Mr. Ogletree’s name was all over the place for a Smoking Gun story about a letter he wrote to the City of Houston, Continental Airlines, and the Houston airport’s food court management company. During a layover [...]
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Friday, April 30, 2010
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