Fight Foreclosure
David Petrovich, Executive Director for Society For Preservation
of Continued Homeownership, a 501c3 tax exempt charitable and educational organization,
and founding member of SPOCH’s Homekeeper Advisory Services, teaches financially
distressed homeowners how to cope with their mortgage problem, predatory lenders, and
speculative investors who prey on those who face the loss of their home to mortgage or tax
foreclosure. His career in real estate spans 20 years during which time he has
investigated allegations of predatory lending, mortgage loan servicing error, fraud, and
untoward realty transactions for the Mortgage Bankers Association of America. He has
served as mortgage loan servicing expert in Federal Courts (New Jersey, New York, and
Pennsylvania) and has been involved (directly or indirectly) in thousands of
preforeclosure mortgage loan workouts, including loan modifications, preforeclosure sales,
preforeclosure short sales, and REO sales transactions.
He frequently contributes to the New York Times Real Estate Q & A, CNN’s Money,
Wall Street Journal’s MarketWatch, Blogging Stocks, and has appeared on numerous
radio and television programs including, but not limited to segments on FOX Business TV,
CN8 TV Meet the Newsmakers, local cable TV, Los Angeles Business Talk Radio, and Boston
Business Radio. His recommendations and advice appear in newspapers and magazines
nationwide including the San Francisco Chronicle, the Chicago Tribune, and Christian
Science Monitor. His Blog, ForeclosureFocusUSA - The Unvarnished Truth, and column are
featured in The Atlantic Gazette.
Published in 2006, Short Sales: An Ethical Approach , is a procedural primer for real
estate brokers, brokers’ agents, homeowners and speculative real estate investors
explaining how to properly construct preforeclosure, and preforeclosure short sales while
facilitating foreclosed homeowners’ best interests.
His latest book, Fight Foreclosure! How to Cope With a Mortgage You Can't Pay, Negotiate
With Your Bank, and Save Your Home! (Wiley & Sons - 2008) which received rave reviews
from The Los Angeles Times, and Pepperdine’ University’s School of Business, and
others, was written in response to the predicted collapse of real estate markets and the
growing foreclosure problem throughout the United States. In retrospect, he admits he
underestimated the Subprime Chernobyl's impact on mortgage loan servicing practices.
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You should consult with an attorney at law and a certified public accountant before
entering into any agreement to sell your home, refinance your mortgage, or agree to the
terms for a loan modification.
SPOCH’S HOMEKEEPER ADVISORY SERVICES -
We offer three levels of service:
1) free consultation (information)
2) comprehensive Evaluation and Recommendation (empowerment)
3) hands-on assistance & advocacy (empowerment with help)
For more information, Email me at NJSPOCH@aol.com
www.SPOCH.org
The Society for the Preservation of Continued Homeownership (SPOCH), a nonprofit 501(c)3
consumer advocacy organization, has been providing pre and post-mortgage foreclosure
counseling services to distressed homeowners for over a decade under the executive
direction of David M. Petrovich, a 25 year veteran of the real estate and mortgage finance
industry, and the financial leadership of Lynn M. Petrovich, CPA/MBA. SPOCH’s primary
purpose is to provide at risk homeowners a "one stop shop" for information,
tools, and hands-on support they need to fight foreclosure and then preserve their
continued homeownership which benefits families, neighborhoods, schools, communities, and
the nation.