“Los Angeles veteran shocked by ‘zombie mortgage’ after 14 years”. Why so many Americans face the same unpleasant surprise decades later
After his sister was diagnosed with cancer, Shawn Murphy flew home from South Korea, where he was stationed in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, to offer support and refinance his Los Angeles duplex to help with medical bills. As he prepared to refinance the property he had purchased in 2003, he discovered a lien…