Monthly Archives: June 2011

The Crystal Cathedral — the Southern California ministry founded by noted positive thinker Rev. Robert Schuller has filed with the bankruptcy court its plan from emerging from the debt load that caused the church to seek Chapter 11 protection last fall. Boiled down to its essence, the mega-church’s plan is sell it’s sprawling complex in […]

A Massachusetts housing recovery is still a long way off, according to an article in the Boston Globe. And Lawrence ranks in the top ten communities in Massachusetts in the number of distressed properties — that is, homes where the owners are substantially behind on mortgage payments. A rise in the number of distressed properties […]

Fellow Massachusetts bankruptcy blogger Bill McLeod has shut down his blog. But its not for lack of interest or traffic, but because he has taken a job with the Bankruptcy court itself — as the court’s “pro se law clerk.” What does a pro se law clerk do? There are only a few of them […]

If you pick up the Lawrence Eagle-Tribune on Tuesday or Thursday, you’ll find an ad like the one at left which can be used as a “coupon” for a reduction of $299 off of a Chapter 7 bankruptcy case during the month of June. That’s like being able to file without paying a filing fee! […]