FIGHT BACK!
With a Take-Charge Strategy for At-Risk Homeowners
Millions of homeowners are at risk of losing their homes. Are you one of them? If so, you need this practical, step-by-step guide to help you take action before it’s too late.
In Fight Foreclosure!, David Petrovich offers honest advice on all of your options, weighs the pros and cons of each, and shares smart, practical strategies for lowering your payments and keeping your home. He points out the too-good-to-be-true foreclosure rescue offers you should avoid, and offers real alternatives that work—now!
Petrovich is a mortgage banking insider who understands the loan servicing industry inside and out. And he understands the pressure you’re under. Don’t worry! You’re not alone. Inside, you’ll find the calm, professional advice you need to manage your financial crisis, including topics such as:
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The foreclosure time-clock—why acting early is critical
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Handling collection calls
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Cutting expenses and rebuilding your budget
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Negotiating with your lender
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Utilizing all your legal defenses
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Using bankruptcy to save your home
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Selling your home to avoid foreclosure while saving your credit
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Finding legitimate help and avoiding rescue scams
Customer Review: Right Book At The Right Time: Most Informative, Practical & Helpful Guide For Distressed Americans
After reading about Petrovich in the New York Times and seeing him interviewed on Fox BusinessNews, I bought a copy of his book. Coming at a time when so many Americans are facing foreclosure and bankruptcy, this well-written & well-organized book gives clear and practical steps to help those who need real information to guide them out of chaos. I’m a novice, but I found it reader-friendly and easy to follow. It even includes a dictionary of important terms readers will find useful. I recommend it highly.
Customer Review: The Book For Today’s Housing Market
In today’s mortgage market, this book makes you think in ways you haven’t been thinking. Real people, real experiences, real solutions. Whether you are a borrower, a lender, or someone trying to help either, you will benefit from the lessons learned in this book.
Al Lewis, Attorney
Customer Review: Covers way too much territory to explain a simple concept
On page 24, Regina Leeds says just about everything that needs to be said on the subject: “Everything you do needs to be scheduled”. This happens to be the same message David Allen delivers much more effectively in his “Getting Things Done”.
Of course, saying it is a lot easier than doing it, which is why people like Leeds and Allen can count on their books selling year after year.
Leeds takes the approach of teaching you how to organize your life over the course of a year, with new projects every month. For me, the approach simply doesn’t work. Too much territory is covered. For example, I’m not going to be moving into a new home, so that chapter – and the month’s project – is wasted on me.
Also, Leeds is a bit too “New Age” for my personal taste. Tidbits like an “affirmation” for the month strike me as treacly. August, for instance, tells you: “I am guided with ease to my new home. I embrace the life waiting for me. I also bless and thank my current home. I release it to the new occupants. I am thankful for all the participants in this transition.”
Regina Leeds has quite a following, apparently, but I don’t think I’ll be joining it.
Jerry
Customer Review: Good idea, not so great execution
This book has a great premise, breaking down a specific organizational task over the course of a month, and has you writing a journal while you do this. So why only 2 stars?
Too much info about the author. We continually hear about her own experiences, her high-end clients, etc.
Too much focusing on the past in the journal exercises. The more you dwell on the past, the harder it is to make the future better.
She calls herself the Zen Organizer, but there is a lot of New Age content in the book also. Would rather have had more organizational tips.
She has an entire month dealing just with Thanksgiving. Really. If she’d combined it with Christmas and New Year’s, as “holiday planning”, it would have been plenty.
The chapter on moving was pretty good, but should have been written with lists instead of all the good information being buried in paragraphs (and this was also a problem in other chapters).
Overall, I would rate the book 2.5 stars. Good premise, and several good organizing tips, but it gets bogged down in places. Check it out from your library first–you might prefer her approach to that of FlyLady.