--- title: 'More Money Thursday Roundup: Accidental Foreclosures & Free Cable TV' description: 'Personal finance from around the web: A 46-year-old Pittsburgh woman is suing Bank of America for mistakenly repossessing her home and confiscating her prized pet…' authors: - name: timestaff url: https://money.com/author/timestaff/ articles: 459 covers: - Housing - Banking - Career Advice - Credit - Credit Cards - Identity Theft - Insurance - Investing - Lifestyle - Loans - Mortgages - Personal Finance - Professional Services - Retirement - Shopping - Taxes former_staff: true published: '2010-03-12T00:03:15.000Z' modified: '2020-07-07T10:20:53.000Z' section: Housing tags: - Bank of America - Cable TV - diversify income - federal consumer protection agency - financial reform bill - free cable - mortgage - Personal Finance - repossess home word_count: 184 canonical: https://money.com/more-money-thursday-roundup-accidental-foreclosures-free-cable-tv/ type: Article source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![More Money Thursday Roundup: Accidental Foreclosures & Free Cable TV](https://money.com/content.money.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/140601_money_gen_13.jpg?crop=0px%2C733px%2C4780px%2C2689px&resize=1012%2C569&quality=85&strip&ssl=1) Personal finance from around the web: - A 46-year-old Pittsburgh woman is suing Bank of America for [mistakenly repossessing her home](http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/bank-america-apologized-accidentally-repossessing-home-taking-pet/story?id=10071658) and confiscating her prized pet parrot. The woman's mortgage was up to date, but she says it took her a week to recover her beloved bird and six weeks to get BofA to clean up the mess it left. As foreclosures rise, mistakes like this become more frequent, experts say. \[ABC News\] - A [financial reform bill will be released on Monday](http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2010/03/11/dodd-statement-on-financial-reform/), says Sen. Chris Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee. \[WSJ.com\] - Meanwhile, the proposed federal consumer protection agency may [exempt some of those who need to be regulated the most](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/10/AR2010031003919.html): payday lenders, pawn brokers, car dealers and other non-bank lenders. \[The Washington Post\] - You can watch all the TV you want -- [without having to pay for cable](http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/11/garden/11tv.html). A little technical expertise and the Internet are all you need. \[The New York Times\] - Everybody knows how important it is to diversify your investments. But don't stop there: Put some thought into [diversifying your *income*](http://www.fivecentnickel.com/2010/03/11/how-and-why-to-diversify-your-income/). \[Five Cent Nickel\] *Follow Money on Twitter at* [*http://twitter.com/money*](https://twitter.com/money). ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://money.com/more-money-thursday-roundup-accidental-foreclosures-free-cable-tv/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://money.com" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Housing", "item": "https://money.com/housing/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Housing Market", "item": "https://money.com/housing-market/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "More Money Thursday Roundup: Accidental Foreclosures & Free Cable TV" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://money.com/#website", "url": "https://money.com", "name": "Money", "publisher": { "@id": "https://money.com/#organization" } }, { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://money.com/more-money-thursday-roundup-accidental-foreclosures-free-cable-tv/#webpage", "url": "https://money.com/more-money-thursday-roundup-accidental-foreclosures-free-cable-tv/", "name": "More Money Thursday Roundup: Accidental Foreclosures & Free Cable TV", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://money.com/#website" }, "datePublished": "2010-03-12T00:03:15.000Z", "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://money.com/more-money-thursday-roundup-accidental-foreclosures-free-cable-tv/" }, "inLanguage": "en-US", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://money.com/more-money-thursday-roundup-accidental-foreclosures-free-cable-tv/#breadcrumb" }, "dateModified": "2020-07-07T10:20:53.000Z" }, { "@type": "Article", "headline": "More Money Thursday Roundup: Accidental Foreclosures & Free Cable TV", "articleSection": "Housing", "image": [ { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://img.money.com/2014/06/140601_money_gen_13.jpg?quality=85", "width": 4780, "height": 3540 } ], "author": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "timestaff", "url": "https://money.com/author/timestaff/", "@id": "https://money.com/author/timestaff/#author" } ], "publisher": "https://money.com/#organization", "datePublished": "2010-03-12T00:03:15.000Z", "description": "Personal finance from around the web: A 46-year-old Pittsburgh woman is suing Bank of America for mistakenly repossessing her home and confiscating her prized pet…", "abstract": "Personal finance from around the web: A 46-year-old Pittsburgh woman is suing Bank of America for mistakenly repossessing her home and confiscating her prized pet…", "@id": "https://money.com/more-money-thursday-roundup-accidental-foreclosures-free-cable-tv/", "inLanguage": "en-US", "dateModified": "2020-07-07T10:20:53.000Z", "wordCount": 184, "keywords": [ "Bank of America", "Cable TV", "diversify income", "federal consumer protection agency", "financial reform bill", "free cable", "mortgage", "Personal Finance", "repossess home" ], "about": [ { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Housing in the United States", "sameAs": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_in_the_United_States" ] }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Housing market", "sameAs": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_market" ] } ] } ] } ```