BY RICHARD MIZE Real Estate Editor richardmize@oklahoman.comThe federal financial consumer watchdog is digging up bones and piling them at out feet. Bones of contention, that is. Complaints, problems, issues, grievances, grumbles, protests and quibbles — the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is taking yours at www.consumerfinance.gov/complaint/. The bureau is grinding the bones into statistics, then forming them into trends and hot spots and such in its mission to "identify and prioritize problems for potential action," as the watchdog's top dog, director Richard Cordray, put it the other day. The stats aren't as awful and tragic — or gossipy — as the stories themselves, searchable here: www.consumerfinance.gov/complaintdatabase/. That's where you can read juicy stuff like: "We don’t have XXXX to pull out of a hat just to satisfy a crooked firm," and lender or loan service company dry responses like: "Company believes it acted appropriately as authorized by contract or law.” That's gripping reading, and it's part of the reason for the narrative database: to put real people's real stories out there for all of us — borrowers and lenders and everybody else — to see. But the stats are where it's at for deciding what, if anything, should be done, and the bureau just released the first of its monthly reports.Read more on NewsOK.com

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