| Helping hand a complicated prospect
Q: I have a friend who lost his job and is now in danger of losing his home. He has a family and I would like to help him if I can. The money that I would lend him is money I have saved for retirement so I want to protect myself as best I can. He is telling me he needs $12,000 to get caught up on his mortgage and pay all the fees he is being charged. He is working again though he is making less than what he did before. I am not so sure this situation will not come up again. What is the best way to insure that if he ends up in foreclosure again, I will get paid the money I loaned him? A: The best way to insure that you will be paid is to have the legal title holders sign a note and mortgage and record the mortgage against the property. However, you must do some homework to determine if this is economically feasible.
Veterans await help as 400K disability claims pending
WASHINGTON - In his last years, World War II veteran Seymour Lewis would stand at the door of his home in Savannah, Ga., waiting for a letter that never arrived. The family of the former Army private, who lost the hearing in his right ear to a grenade explosion in basic training in 1944, spent years wrestling with the Department of Veterans Affairs for his disability benefits, at one point waiting more than a year just to be told to fill out more forms. In 2001, the VA started sending Lewis a monthly check for $200, an amount he appealed as too little and too late for the lasting physical sacrifice he made for his country, his family said. The appeal was still pending when Lewis died last year at age 80. "Every time I would call they would send me a new form to fill out, with exactly the same information that they already had," said his son Frank Lewis, 61, a Navy veteran.
STAGE TO SCREENS: A Drowsy Chat with "Smallville" Star John Glover ...
This month we talk to John Glover ("Smallville") who joins The Drowsy Chaperone as Man in Chair, and chat with filmmaker Amber Edwards and songwriter Jerry Herman about the PBS-aimed documentary "Words and Music by Jerry Herman." *** Fans of John Glover as the duplicitous Lionel Luthor in CW network's "Smallville" may not immediately recognize the character's similarity to Man in Chair in Broadway's The Drowsy Chaperone, but they will see another of the many portraits in the gifted actors gallery. A Tony winner as twins John and James Jekyll (he should have gotten two trophies) in Terrence McNally's Love! Valour! Compassion!, Glover succeeds Bob Martin (star of and Tony-winning co-librettist for the musical) on April 17. "My agent called and said, 'They're interested in you,'" explains the actor, "so I flew myself to New York and auditioned.
|
