Yesterday, the Sunday of the 2012 Martin Luther King Holiday, this article crossed my desk:
Northwest Trustee Services Squeezes More Profits From Home Foreclosures with One-stop Model
It seems Northwest Trustee Services and their “sister” lawfirm Routh Crabtree Olsen (RCO for those in the know – perhaps our own little David Stern, our own little mill?), was singing about how happy they are because they are bullish on the destruction of hearth and home throughout their little empire of the Inter-mountain West, Alaska and Hawaii. In it, Stephen Routh, exclaims “There’s misery coming” and then spends the rest of the article bragging about how he intends to make $erious hay from bringing it to a community near you. You can almost hear his hands rubbing with glee as he counts the money he will make from providing ALL the services a foreclosing party might wish to utilize from substitute trustee services, to law firm services, process service, rental and property management to the main thrust of the story, how he is buying up small community newspapers so he can pocket the money currently being spent in newspaper advertisements. Can’t leave a trick on the table, doncha know? It seems there is money in Mi$ery. Continue Reading »






