Bankster World

Lovely.

WASHINGTON — Jose Palomo was surprised when the knock on the door came in August, informing him that his California home had been foreclosed and he'd need to vacate promptly. After all, he'd recently started payments on an in-house mortgage modification with CitiMortage Inc.

"I was speechless, didn't know what to say. What's going on? Why? They got our hopes high saying we got approved, everything was going to go through," recalled Palomo, 23, a car salesman fighting to keep his tiny home in Riverside.