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Navigating LOST COMMUNICATION With "Servicers" Who Are in Reality Merely Steering You Into Foreclosure

The main point is that borrowers must calibrate their thinking. Debtors are not dealing with anyone who wants to collect payments. They are dealing with someone who wants a foreclosure so they can steal the proceeds. The forced sale of the house generates revenue that is distributed to several players involved in the foreclosure effort …

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CHECKLIST — FDCPA Damages and Recovery: Revisiting the Montana S Ct Decision in Jacobson v Bayview

What is unique and instructive about this decision from the Montana Supreme Court is that it gives details of each and every fraudulent, wrongful and otherwise illegal acts that were committed by a self-proclaimed servicer and the “defective” trustee on the deed of trust. You need to read the case to see how many different …

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Jesinoski Update: Homeowner, Bank and Court All Get it Wrong

We get it. Judges don’t like statutory rescission under TILA. They are not required to like TILA rescission but they are required to follow it. This decision openly defies the SCOTUS ruling and refuses to apply it. Despite clear legislative intent to prevent banks from stonewalling rescission they are succeeding in doing so nonetheless as …

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Washington Court Finds Trustee Had No Authority to Foreclose

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COVER-UP: Whatever Happenned to Those Settlements?

This is for general information only. For further information please call 954-495-9867 or 520-405-1688 Consult a lawyer before making any decisions based upon the content of this article or anything else on this blog. ==================================== see http://www.mpamag.com/news/foreclosure-settlement-funds-misspent-26697.aspx The media and the Bank lobby keep referring to illegal activity, risky or mismanagement. I call it a …

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What is Evidence or Proof of the Existence of the REAL Loan?

For additional information or assistance please call 954-495-9867 or 520-405-1688. ———————————— It is a complicated answer. The following is NOT a comprehensive answer which would the length of a treatise. see also Fla 4th DCA Beauchamp v Bank of New York Mellon, J Shahood reversed — Beauchamp v BONY-Mellon The Beauchamp case brings to the …

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Banks Use Trial Modifications as a Pathway to Foreclosure — Neil Garfield Show 6 P.M. EDT Thursdays

Banks Use Modifications Against Homeowners Click in or phone in at The Neil Garfield Show Or call in at (347) 850-1260, 6pm EDT Thursdays It is bad enough that they outright lie to homeowners and tell them they MUST be 90 days behind in payments to get a modification. That isn’t true and it is …

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Wells Fargo: Insured Mortgages Still Being Foreclosed After Death Benefit is Paid to Bank

In my newly formed practice and thanks to the diligent work of my partners at GGKW, we have discovered something that is over the top even by current standards in the current mortgage mess, to wit: servicers, banks and other entities are receiving complete payoffs of the mortgage upon the death of the insured homeowner …

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Elizabeth Warren Has It Right

Carmen Reinhart: “No Doubt. Our Pensions Are Screwed.” http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-04-11/carmen-reinhart-no-doubt-our-pensions-are-screwed Editor’s Comment: It is nothing less than an insult to our intelligence. As the walls crumble around the myth of securitization, the banks are stepping up efforts — in concert with the agencies that are supposed to regulate them — to prevent people from doing simple …

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FDCPA Strikes Again: West Virginia Slams Wells Fargo

YARNEY v. OCWEN LOAN SERVICING, LLC, Dist. Court, WD Virginia 2013 SARAH C. YARNEY, Plaintiff, v. OCWEN LOAN SERVICING, LLC, ET AL., Defendants. No. 3:12-cv-00014. United States District Court, W.D. Virginia, Charlottesville Division. March 8, 2013 MEMORANDUM OPINION NORMAN K. MOON, District Judge. The Plaintiff Sarah C. Yarney (“Plaintiff”), pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 56, …

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Monday is Last Day to File for Review and Damages Under Settlement Agreement

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FRAUD: The Significance of the Game Changing FHFA Lawsuits

MOST POPULAR ARTICLES GET COMBO TITLE AND SECURITIZATION ANALYSIS – CLICK HERE FHFA ACCUSES BANKS OF FRAUD: THEY KNEW THEY WERE LYING “FHFA has refrained from sugar coating the banks’ alleged conduct as mere inadvertence, negligence, or recklessness, as many plaintiffs have done thus far.  Instead, it has come right out and accused certain banks …

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GOOD PLEADINGS: FAGAN V WELLS FARGO ET AL

CLE SEMINAR: SECURITIZATION WORKSHOP FOR ATTORNEYS — REGISTER NOW CLICK HERE TO RESERVE GROUP RATE AT HILTON SEE LIVINGLIES LITIGATION SUPPORT AT LUMINAQ.COM Suit Filed Incorporating Agency Sanctions and Consent Decrees from Last Week “And most importantly, Fagan goes again to the heart of the securitization illusion, the falsity of the presentations made to both …

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TITLE COMPANIES AND AGENTS BRACE FOR WORST YEAR OF THEIR EXISTENCE

COMBO Title and Securitization Search, Report, Documents, Analysis & Commentary We all know the expression about the light at the end of the tunnel being an oncoming train. Title agents and title carriers are in the middle of a tunnel intersecting with other tunnels each with a light of an oncoming train. In a word, …

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PROFITS BEING MADE ON FORCED SALE OF PROPERTIES

TOP READER PICKS FOR SERVICES AND PRODUCTS “My mortgage was $124,000…property was titled to the lender after foreclosure and conveyed to Fannie Mae for $132,000…property was then transferred to new purchaser for $156,000…all my equity was lost because lender would not work with me…am I entitled to any portion of Fannie Mae’s profit in selling …

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YOU MAY BE ENTITLED TO CASH PAYMENT FOR WRONGFUL FORECLOSURE — Coming to a Billboard Near YOU

SERVICES YOU NEED EDITOR’S NOTE: Well it has finally happened. Three years ago I couldn’t get a single lawyer anywhere to consider this line of work. I predicted that this area of expertise in their practice would dwarf anything they were currently doing including personal injury and malpractice. I even tried to guarantee fees to …

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GMAC HALTS FORECLOSURES ADMITTING FALSE AFFIDAVITS

SERVICES YOU NEED From testimony in a Chase case, same as dozens of others I have seen —- Q. So if you didn’t review any books, records, and documents or computerized records, how is it that you had personal knowledge of all the matters contained therein? A. Well, I have personal knowledge that my staff …

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Ratings Arbitrage a/k/a Fraud

Investment banks bundled mortgage loans into securities and then often rebundled those securities one or two more times. Those securities were given high ratings and sold to investors, who have since lost billions of dollars on them. Editor’s Note: The significance of this report cannot be overstated. Not only did the investment bankers LOOK for …

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TILA Statute of Limitations — No Limit

Editor’s Note: Judges are quick to jump on the TILA Statute of Limitations by imposing the one year rule for rescission and damages. But there is more to it than that. First the statute does NOT cut off at one year except for items that are apparent on the face of the closing documentation; so …

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Forensic analysis, DISCOVERY: BofA Hides Behind Reconstrust Subsidiary

Editor’s Notes: Bank of America is smarter than most. It has created a web of companies whose function is to perform activities that hide the fact that it is Bank of America, and there are other pretender lenders who hide behind this entity who suddenly appears as “trustee” or some other entity claiming the right …

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Ambac Clients May Receive 25 Cents on Dollar in Cash

Editor’s Note: The significance of this announcement is that the bondholders, who were insured directly by AMBAC (as opposed to the investment bankers who bought “bets” like credit default swaps) are receiving 25 cents on every dollar they funded as creditors for the funding of loan to homeowners (debtors/ borrowers). This supports and corroborates two …

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Garfield Continuum White Paper Explains Economics of Securitization of Residential Mortgages

SEE The Economics and Incentives of Yield Spread Premiums and Credit Default Swaps March 23, 2010: Editor’s Note: The YSP/CDS paper is intentionally oversimplified in order to demonstrate the underlying economics of securitization as it was employed in the last decade. To be clear, there are several things I was required to do in order …

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Tax Impact of Principal Reduction

With the Obama administration and private lenders actively considering mortgage-principal-reduction programs to help financially distressed homeowners, the Internal Revenue Service has issued an advisory to taxpayers who receive — or seek to receive — such assistance if it’s offered. Editor’s Note: The only thing I would add to this, for the moment, is that any …

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