Mortgage market clouds who owns woman’s house Submitted by Jose Semedey — Thank You By CARRIE TEEGARDIN The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Sunday, January 25, 2009 Twenty years ago, Zella Mae Green bought a modest brick ranch house in DeKalb County with an American ideal in mind. The single mother of four, who raised her children working …
The home you save could be your own In foreclosure crisis, more Americans representing themselves in court By Mike Stuckey Senior news editor msnbc.com updated 4:25 a.m. MT, Wed., Jan. 28, 2009 Luis Molina is not a lawyer and he has never played one on TV. But that didn’t stop him from putting on his …
What is good for the goose is good for the gander. After months of wrangling with the obvious due process issues invovled in allowing a Trustee on the Deed of Trust to send a Notice of Default, Notice of Default and to file an eviction (unlawful detainer), it has occurred to me that the reasoning …
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Foreclosures in U.S. Rose 81%, Topping 2.3 Million Last Year By Dan Levy Jan. 15 (Bloomberg) — U.S. foreclosure filings jumped 81 percent last year as falling house prices, tighter mortgage lending and the longest recession in a quarter century battered property owners, RealtyTrac Inc. said. More than 2.3 million properties got a default or …
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Atlantic Article Submitted by multiple readers, I read this as soon as my issue was delivered. It’s true. And to add insult to injury, the answer to the question on everyone’s mind: Where did the money go? $350 billion disappeared down a black hole. The banks and investment banks got the money under the presumption …
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loan_origination_mortgage_fraud_ffiec loan_origination_mortgage_fraud_prevention_response_nelson Red Flags • Critical loan processing activities, such as verification of income, employment, or deposit, is delegated to brokers. • Delegated underwriting allowed for correspondents that are new or lack an established track record with the FI. • A growing number of loans is being repurchased due to misrepresentations by the FI under …
1. In another Ohio ruling on November 14th, State District Judge Kathleen Mc Donald O’Malley dismissed 32 more foreclosures for lack of “documentation”. Read the ruling /files/89778-78388/Deutsche_Bank_Foreclosure_Ruling.pdf”>Deutsche Ruling, we reported on the Judge Boyko decision in which he dismissed 14 Deutsche Bank foreclosures and then was followed up by Judge Rose throwing out another 27 …
LOOK CAREFULLY AT EXHIBITS CONTAINING MERS ADVERTISING TO LENDERS LOOKING TO TRANSFER NOTES AND MORTGAGES see mers-membership-information-reveals-index-to-securitization-and-investors-allegation-that-mers-is-authorized-or-even-nominal-beneficiary-is-false washington-state-buse-vs-first-american-title-greenpoint-rescomm-mers-amended-complaint-well-written-look-carefully-at-exhibits-containing-mers-advertising-to-lenders-looking-to-tra mers-explained-by-aurora-lawyers exhibits-motion-and-temp-restraining-order-granted From the attached amended complaint. That Deed of Trust (“DOT”) contained a false representation on its face when it represented that Defendant MERS was a beneficiary under the DOT. Paragraph (E) States that “MERS is …
I needed to comment on the post NY did as seen above. I acted as a court observer in the summery judgment of NY the other day at the civil court in Miami. I wanted to make clear that I did not render anything more than to be an observer in his stunning performance. He …
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Gump59 – Why buy performing mortgages? If they are producing income for their owners, why wouldn’t they be held onto? > ANSWER: You’d buy a performing mortgage if you thought that you were buying it at a bargain, guaranteed with Triple AAA rating. If you buy a mortgage note that has a principal balance due …
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See also provident-bank-v-silverman-super-duper-explanation-of-ucc-transferres-holders-and-holders-in-due-course-and-perfecting-title-to-note-or-mortgage KISS – Keep It Simple Stupid Totaled Cars and Totaled Mortgages – Credit Default Swaps – CDS – 101 By Brad Keiser OK this article is for those newer readers and tenured Livinglies devotees as well as those who have attended Al Pacino’s(oops I mean Neil Garfield’s ) workshops and are not …
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Credit Card Companies Willing to Deal Over Debt Bank of America says it eased off on more than 700,000 credit card holders in 2008, lowering interest rates and some balances. By ERIC DASH Published: January 2, 2009 Hard times are usually good times for debt collectors, who make their money morning and night with the …
Would You Pay $103,000 for This Arizona Fixer-Upper? That Was Ms. Halterman’s Mortgage on It; ‘Unfit for Human Occupancy,’ City Says By MICHAEL M. PHILLIPS AVONDALE, Ariz. — The little blue house rests on a few pieces of wood and concrete block. The exterior walls, ravaged by dry rot, bend to the touch. At some …
Superb Complaint piercing the heart of Deutsch Bank’s authority to collect money, file suit, seeking recovery of property and money through receiver and damages against the lawyers who filed the foreclosure suits. whittiker_v_deutsche_bank_complaint In the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, eastern Division, Case no. 1:08CV300, Judge David D. Dowd, Jr. …
1. It isn’t illegal or prejudicial to a plaintiff trustee’s case for it to have acquired rights or be assigned a mortgage AFTER a borrower is in default — but it DOES raise issues of fact that must be heard by the Court. Since the Mortgage went into default there are several possibilities: (a) under …
The “lenders’ are holding nothing but worthless or at best questionable paper. As soon as you sign a modification you are validating a debt that you most likely don’t have anymore or at worst have substantial offsets against and you are validating a security instrument (mortgage) that was destroyed in the securitization process. Check with …
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All the resources cited herein are available on this blog Miami Florida Personal Bankruptcy Law Blog Chapter 7, 13, and 11 Florida Bankruptcy Law by Miami Florida Bankruptcy Lawyer Jordan E. Bublick Sunday, December 21, 2008 “Securitization Facilitated Predatory Lending” Professor Kenneth C. Kettering of the New York Law School recently reviewed the legal foundations …
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December 23, 2008 Irregularity Uncovered at IndyMac By EDMUND L. ANDREWS WASHINGTON — Two months before IndyMac Bancorp collapsed in July, at a cost of $8.9 billion to taxpayers, a top federal banking regulator allowed the bank to backdate a capital infusion and gloss over its deepening problems, the Treasury Department’s independent investigator …
Some time ago we mentioned on these pages that the auditors who certified the financial statements (KPMG, here) would come under intense scutiny simply because they MUST have known, by simple common sense, that the economics of mortgage lending had been turned on its head. The worse the loan quality the more they made leaving …
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Plaintiff Knuckles & Komosinski, PC Tarrytown NY Defendants No Defendant(s) Arthur M. Schack, J. Plaintiff’s application for a judgment of foreclosure and sale for the premises located at 78 Van Siclen Avenue, Brooklyn, New York (Block 3932, Lot 45, County of Kings) is denied without prejudice. Plaintiff Deutsche Bank National Trust Company (Deutsche Bank), a …
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ohio-ag-files-suit-against-loan-mod-predator-be-careful The answer to your question is YES we have lawyers and the list grows every week. You can start with the “Lawyers Who Get it” at www.livinglies.wordpress.com. If you still have trouble then contact us again. In the meanwhile, allow me to point out that the process of defending your property is intimidating to …
The lenders are out in force trying to get you to sign something new. Most of the offers accomplish only two things: (1) ratification of a loan that was unenforceable and (2) a virtual guarntee that you will end up with worse problem than when you started in as little as 3 months; QUESTION: I …
CLEARINGHOUSE: A company or government sponsored entity that either takes physical possession of transactional documents and records them on its own books. An accepted clearinghouse’s records is used as business records to prove ownership of a particular security or other transactional document. Cede and Company and others are the clearinghouse for quadrillions of dollars of …
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