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Administrative/Regulatory

Jun. 3, 2010

Playing By the Rules Gets Results

Patricia A. Pinto, a lawyer at the Orange County Legal Aid Society in Santa Ana, helps homeowners get mortgage loan modifications.

By Don J. DeBenedictis

Daily Journal Staff Writer

SANTA ANA - By the time Rodolfo Gomez arrived at the Orange County Legal Aid Society in hopes of modifying the two mortgages on his Santa Ana duplex, he had already paid $1,250 to a real estate service that did nothing.

Gomez had purchased the pair of attached three-bedroom, two-bath units on an out-of-the-way street tucked behind Santa Ana College back in 2006 for well over $60...

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