Foreclosure: Coalition gathers signatures, stories for Initiative 84

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In the almost three months since the Colorado Progressive Coalition began a fight for Initiative 84, organizers have collected more than three dozen stories about Colorado foreclosures. In the near future, they will be part of a story map on the group's website documenting personal horror stories while the CPC pushes state legislature to require documentation prior to all foreclosures. Today, that list grew of stories grew by one: Marla Sneed's.

In 2009, PNC Bank began to foreclose on Sneed's Aurora home, where the 53-year-old lives with the youngest of her three children. Sneed received notice that she was required to attend a Colorado 120 hearing, where a magistrate sided with PNC. For the next three years, she represented herself pro se in her battle to keep her home: In a complaint filed in federal court, Sneed asked for financial officials to produce the title to her home and its promissory note and demonstrate its path of ownership...