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Times like this I am glad I live in a predominately Mormon neighborhood a block away from a Mormon Mega Church.

No where near the amount of foreclosures in my neighborhood than there are in the surrounding neighborhood. So this “program” shouldn’t have the same effect on my neighborhood.

I just don’t answer my door when there are people in clean white shirts and backpacks ring my doorbell on the weekend. Heck since the neighborhood is already mostly Mormon they don’t even feel the need to “preach to the choir” so it has been months since any visit... LOL

Times like this I am glad I live in a predominately Mormon neighborhood a block away from a Mormon Mega Church. No where near the amount of foreclosures in my neighborhood than there are in the surrounding neighborhood. So this “program” shouldn’t have the same effect on my neighborhood.

Well, foreclosure rates vary from Mormon neighborhood to Mormon neighborhood. Overall, it hasn't looked well for Utah. According to one February 2010 Christian Science Monitor article: A RealtyTrac report released Thursday showed they [Utah] had the fifth-highest foreclosure rate among the states, with 1 in 231 homes receiving a foreclosure notice in January. That's nearly double the national rate and not far from No. 4 Florida's rate of 1 in 187...In mid-decade, when Utah was tops in bankruptcies, various commentators pinned the blame on Mormon religious and cultural practices, such as tithing, creating large families, buying homes at a young age, and as one critic put it: "the pressure in Mormonism to be, or at least appear, financially successful as proof the Lord is blessing them." Indeed, Mormons in 2004 had a bankruptcy rate that was approaching twice that of the national average.
Source: Foreclosure mystery: Why can't conservative Utahns afford their mortgage?

According to a July 2009 Salt Lake Tribune article, Provo-Orem at that time was topping Utah in foreclosure-related filings. That area -- Utah County --"coincidentally" has the HIGHEST % of Lds concentration in the entire state!)

In fact a 2003 article says that 88% of this county is LDS! 88% of Utah County is LDS And the 2009 Trib article says: The Provo-Orem area is ranked No. 31 in foreclosure-related filings among more than 200 areas nationwide, a new report shows.

According to the Trib, the other 2 areas (known for having 56-58% Lds population) that were responsible for the second & third highest rates: The Salt Lake metro area was at No. 58, with Ogden-Clearfield at No. 59 in the report by RealtyTrac, which monitors a wide range of filings from default notices -- in which homeowners are simply behind on their payments but not yet in danger of losing their properties -- to notices that the bank is taking possession of the property. In the Salt Lake metro area, 5,322 properties -- 1.4 percent of all housing units...