Tarkblog

We’ve been pretty lucky I guess that we didn’t buy a house that was well outside of what we could afford.

I have mixed feelings on the whole mortgage mess thing, because I haven’t yet decided exactly who I wanted to blame the most: the borrowers or the lenders.

But I think my negative thoughts on the predatory lending practices came highlighted in a letter I got in the mail on Thursday. Note how the address is hand written

Inside was a single post it note, and a business card:

The bottom of the post-it note, in very small print, read: “We are not from your current mortgage company”

Talk about a shady thing to do. Basically, drop a note in the mail to someone with the look as though you know them and need to talk to them about something personal.

I can only imagine how many folks fell for this.

This entry was posted on Saturday, August 2nd, 2008 at 11:35 am and is filed under Random Thoughts. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.