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I like the Denver Daily News , and I know that among Downtown Denver professionals, it's the preferred reading material of choice over that morning bagel or that sandwich at lunch. So I was happy about Monday's front page story based on my press release:

Gregg Moss, who is one of my favorite humans, has done a lot for the Foreclosure Hotline lately. On Tuesday, we discussed the heavy volume of calls we're dealing with these days. Here is the link to the video. Update: I put out a release on Hotline call volume that was picked up by the AP on March 11th. 9News then re-used the Tuesday morning video with this newly written web story : DENVER - Even though foreclosures are on the decline here in Colorado, the Foreclosure Prevention Task Force Hotline received a record number of calls last month. In February alone, the Foreclosure Hotline received more than 4,500 calls, in part due to new programs being offered by the government to help with this problem. President Obama passed the Homeowner Affordability and Stability Plan (HASP) last month, which will encourage mortgage servicers to offer lower interest rates, extend loans to 40 years and even forgive principle. In January, Congress passed The American Revitalization and Recovery A...

Here's a story that features the Div. of Housing.

I was a guest on Colorado State of Mind on channel 6 last Friday. We talked about housing prices, foreclosures, and unemployment: Here's the full program .

John Rebchook, the now former Real Estate Editor of the Rocky Mountain News is one of the greatest reporters I've ever known. He'd been covering real estate in Colorado since 1983, and I have the old clippings to prove it. We discussed a lot of foreclosure data in recent years, and when your'e dealing with a reporter who reported on the high foreclosures of the mid-eighties, the discussion is a lot more learned than it might be otherwise. I got used to reading Rebchook's real estate stories pretty much every day. Many of them were about things we were doing at the Division of Housing, but I probably always enjoyed the articles about new development the most. Today is the third day in a row without a Rebchook story to read, and it's quite maddening to say the least.