2013 the year banks told borrowers to hand back the keys?

We help different people with different things, and while most of our debt problem clients face broadly similar reactions from the banks, we think it’s important to post the documents which show a presence of lashings and lashings of stupid. To see the full letter click on the image at the bottom of the post

One such document was received by a client recently from the Irish Civil Service building society, also known as ICS and a subsidiary of Bank of Ireland. It’s no secret that posting these documents makes us highly disliked by the banks,  but if people don’t expose them then the great farce will go unchallenged.

What makes this case interesting is that the bank offered a short term forbearance plan which the client asked them to tweak. Then they turned around and changed their mind and went from ‘we can give you a few months to get your affairs in order’ to ‘sell the house or even abandon it’.

In 2008 to now I have never heard a bank say that walking away (also called jingle …

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Time to leave your home, give it up…

One of the downsides of financial advice is when a person comes to you and it is too late to help, recently I had a client who was about to give up their home, they couldn’t even afford to pay me for advice, but in hearing their story I thought I could turn them around and told them if it works they can take care of it some other day.

The first thing they showed me was a letter (click on it for the big version) which basically said ‘you can’t afford your home, time to give it up’. You’ll notice a big white space to the right of it which makes it less legible, that isn’t what happened when we scanned it up, it went to them like that.

So the demand to get out wasn’t even presented in a fully readable format. This couple are in …

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