Karen Deis, over at National Mortgage News (NMN) keyed to a very important issue which Foreclosurepedia pushes heavily each and every day. The reality is that no matter whom you are or what you do, chances are that someone is entering your name into Google even as I type this Article. Whereas, the National Association of Mortgage Field Services (NAMFS) Regime has been downplaying the impact of my opinions which I present day in and day out, Foreclosurepedia has achieved Page One Google Ranking on just about every name and topic in the Mortgage Field Services Industry. And not just subject matter. Take a peek at our Page Ranking on Google Images. Most people do not even understand how that works, but make no mistake whatsoever that my opinions cross rank far beyond the simple Search Protocols. Deis most eloquently opined,
Here’s the thing: Even if a real estate agent refers a client to you, they will do an Internet search to check you out. If they are looking for you because you closed their loan five years ago and want to do business with you again, will they be able to find you — or wonder if you are still in the mortgage business because they are confused? If you are trying to attract real estate agents that you’d like to do business with, what will they find?
By the way, when I did a search on another LO, who I personally know is a true mortgage professional, there was a “complaint” that showed up and he did not even know it was there for everyone to read.
Wall Street Journal (WSJ) published an Article based upon, in part, a Carnegie Mellon University study delving into the potential for discrimination in Social Media Background Checks (SMBC). CareerBuilder.com stated that 51 percent of those surveyed conduct a SMBC. In fact, Sterling BackCheck, one of the two providers of background checks for the NAMFS Regime Membership, makes no bones about compiling Social Media Background Checks,
Traditional background checks tell you what a candidate has been caught doing in the past. Supplement this information with a social media background check to see if an applicant or employee may be currently engaging in risky behaviors.
I bet, right about now, that Eduardo San Roman of 24 Asset Management (24AM) had wished he had run a Social Media Background Check in light of the Article we released yesterday documenting competitor’s proprietary data currently being stored on his servers which run Visneta, a firm ran by Eduardo San Roman, Lee Mertins and Brian Nesbit. That Article alone accounted for nearly 38% of all traffic today!!
Social Media Background Checks are nothing new, really. Those of us whom have been around the block tend to call this Open Source Intelligence (OSINT). One of the larger principles which the ISTAR Clear Base is built upon is OSINT. ISTAR Clear Base is used by nearly 60 Clients and Contractors today to perform Mission Critical investigations upon both potential business partners and their Competition.
The reality is that probably less than one percent of all Clients and Contractors will retire on what they make in the Mortgage Field Services Industry. So, the reality is that virtually everyone whom reads what I write is going to be looking for a job at some point in time during their life here on terra firma. More on point, though, is the fact that most heterosexual couples have children and virtually everyone has family. Both children and family — generally the in laws — are curious people and the internet satisfies curiosity. Along these lines, many Mortgage Field Service Industry Firms have attempted to stem the tide of the documentation of their atrocities. SEAS LLC was notorious for their Draconian $50,000 Clause if you ever asked for your money which is rumored to have been removed after Foreclosurepedia rose hell over it. Bank of America took the same tactic, as well, with Customers requiring them to remove negative postings. The State of California, though, felt so strongly that folks ought to be able to speak their mind that they passes a law which will fine folks like SEAS LLC and others $10,000 per occasion when they meddle with the First Amendment — sad really as the Bill of Rights addresses it and a firm boot to the ass used to encourage the ignorant.
This explains why Governor Jerry Brown of California signed a law this week that will turn the tables on such businesses, by fining them up to $10,000 if they use contracts that prevent customers from expressing their opinion about a good or service online.
The law is a victory for consumers’ free speech rights, and comes after repeated instances of merchants trying to collect penalties of thousands of dollars from customers who criticized them. In one notorious case, a Utah couple received an email from an online retailer saying they would have to pay $3,500 unless they removed a comment they had posted to the review site, RipoffReport.com.
For years now, Conspiracy Theorists have spun the tale that Foreclosurepedia gets paid to talk good about some; paid again to talk bad about others; and paid yet again to change course in opinion. The reality is that I hate all NAMFS Regime Members equally — no discrimination. More on point, though,
Does Yelp manipulate reviews based on whether a business buys advertising? There’s no proof it does but, in an important decision, an appeals court found that Yelp has the right do so if it wishes.
In a ruling that could affect small businesses across the country, a California appeals court unanimously rejected claims by an auto body shop and an animal hospital, among others, that Yelp extorted them by tying positive and negative reviews to the purchase of advertising contracts worth $300 to $1,200 a month.
The business owners may deem the posting or order of user reviews as a threat of economic harm, but it is not unlawful for Yelp to post and sequence the reviews. As Yelp has the right to charge for legitimate advertising services, the threat of economic harm that Yelp leveraged is, at most, hard bargaining. — Levitt v Yelp, 11-17676 US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
On Tuesday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals found Yelp has the right to arrange its reviews, which let customers leave comments and a one-to-five star rating, as it it sees fit. The ruling, which also found Yelp has a right to engage in “hard bargaining,” agreed with a lower court’s decision to throw out the case because the businesses had failed to make a claim that Yelp violated state or federal unfair competition law.
While Foreclosurepedia does not deny the fact that when we enter into Consulting Agreements with Clients, we are bound by a Non Disclosure Agreement (NDA) wherein we are only allowed to publicly discuss that which our Client authorizes. For obvious reasons, most Clients do not wish Public Disclosure. Others, though, have labeled this as a type of Insurance Policy as one person termed it. I hesitate to state this as first, our Contract is not publicly available. If anyone possessed it, we enter different pixelation on each Contract and would be able to track down the offender negating the NDA. Second, we do not market our services in this manner.
At the end of the day, the reality is that opinions are based upon deep seated values. I have always been a Friend of Labor even when Labor turns its back and drinks the Kool Aid as is the case with Terri Bartlett Berry. Berry, co owner of Keep It Simple Services LLC seems to believe the myth that she is far more informed than the “…rhetoric…” I write is novel. More novel, though, is the belief that she is a unique and stand alone professional. Let me get this straight: You are told when, where and how to perform services. You legally agree to waive unwaivable rights such as the right to lien. You have no legal recourse to Back Billing AND your bids are not honored. In fact, the work you get flows through 3 – 4 hands at 20% deduction a pop, but you are a “…business minded laborer and entrepreneur… [.]”
Let’s get down to brass tacks, though, as you are against myself and my fellow BOTG. So, with a marriage back in May, 1991, one would think you could drop the maiden name — I mean it is so Scarlet Letter. Does it prove a point over on the Grand Drama Book? Tote the Woman’s Rights shit there and drop it on LinkedIn and over on your business license in Florida? Some entrepreneur. I mean you couldn’t even select an original company name as you took one that had become inactive — My bad your were so original that you added a comma! I mean far different than your diatribes while drinking the beer BOTG provided at Florida FAST 2014. What happened? You got your little discount to go dine with the suits and ties and determined they were going to save you?! How about Altisource – RFP: MQC/BWE-001 — Altisource will LOVE that — that you floated over to me? I mean for all the rhetoric I write and for as shitty as BOTG are, it is amazing that you had time to shoot off several emails asking for help and advice! Traitor. Nothing more glamorous. At least those propping you up are well known from the National Property Preservation Guild (NPPG) Days and it is to be expected. The reality is that you do not visit Hell and dine with the Great Satan and head back to Heaven. Bah, not even worth the time for an #Op.
More on point, Ms Entrepreneur, explain to those of us whom are ignorant Boots on the Ground how it is precisely that you state on your website you are a Woman Owned Business and yet your Florida Business License and Email Signature in your Emails all state you are simply the Chief Financial Officer? — Keep It Simple Services, LLC is a woman owned small business. Yeah, I agree with you. The NAMFS Regime is precisely where you belong.
I love that mentality. Fuck the Boots on the Ground Movement. Fuck us? Fuck you. Let me tell you what I see in your not so distant future. With the Kool Aid stain still on those yellowing teeth, I see a sad and forlorn woman pleading with the Bankruptcy Trustee to be able to keep the family photo album. Make no mistake, this has been the path of those whom have gone it alone. Your colleagues whom are propping you up right now are predominately Order Mills. Take a good, hard look around yourself. But, hey, whom am I? Just some stupid Boots on the Ground rhetorical orator.
So, there you have it. Kind of a melange of an Article that was pressing in from multiple directions. Entertainment? Yup, definitely. Entertaining? No, sad and tragic. Sad and tragic in that what was once a fairly decent Industry has been co opted by the NAMFS Regime and their Kool Aid Drinkers like Terri Bartlett Berry.
