Yesterday morning in Palm Desert, CA a number of technology startup companies were shown to the public for the first time at the DEMO Conference.  One of these new companies was an Internet mortgage startup called home-account.com (don’t forget the dash).  Home-Account was born in my kitchen in Charleston just over a year ago – long before any of us realized the housing crisis was going to be as bad as it has become.  Just to be clear, I am a co-founder and shareholder in Home-Account.com.

People with ideas are always seeking me out.  In this case my visitor was a mortgage broker from Charlotte, NC. He knew that lenders weren’t helping homeowners own their homes as quickly as they might.  […]