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Non Judicial as Private Contract: Opening the Door to Homeowners for Self-Help

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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WHY WALL STREET ALWAYS BLOWS IT (and where the money went)

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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Appraisal Fraud and Industry Standards Described in 2003 Official White Paper-RED FLAGS DESCRIBED IN DETAIL WITH EXCELLENT DIAGRAMS EXPLANATIONS AND DESCRIPTIONS OF BEST PRACTICES

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 …

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KISS – Keep It Simple Stupid: Why Brad Conducts Part of the Workshops

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 Issuers See the Writing on the Wall: Forgiveness of Debt — they also got paid in full through securitization, so there is no obligation owed to them

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 …

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Would You Pay $103,000 for This Arizona Fixer-Upper? — Appraisal Fraud, Predatory Loan, Securitization in its "finest" moment

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 …

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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

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. …

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Beware Those Loan Modifications! They are Trap Doors for "lenders" benefit not yours!!!

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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Indymac: federal banking regulator allowed the bank to backdate a capital infusion and gloss over its deepening problems, the Treasury Department’s independent investigator said Monday

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 …

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HOW TO CHOOSE AN AUDITOR, LOSS MITIGATOR, SHORT ALE "SPECIALIST", LOAN MODIFICATION "EXPERT" — CHEAP IS DEAR, YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR

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 …

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Beware of those offers of "modification"

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 …

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Clearinghouse and Trustees Defined From Garfield's Glossary: Some of the new entries

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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WORKSHOPS COMING UP 8 CA CLE & 9.5 FLA CLE CREDITS

PLEASE SUPPORT THIS SITE !!! donation-form-1108 Florida Bar Approves Garfield Continuum for 9.5 CLE Credits Lawyers Workshop Registration Form – November 2, 2009 Homeowners Workshop Registration Form – November 1, 2009 What Lawyers Are Saying About Neil Garfield\’s Seminars covered-in-the-garfield-continuum-workshops-you-can-look-this-stuff-up-in-wikopedia REQUIRED READING: appraisal-fraud-and-industry-standards-described-in-2003-official-white-paper-red-flags-described-in-detail-with-excellent-diagrams-explanations-and-descriptions-of-best-practices Work and Play in Sunny Clearwater Beach FL How to Save $$ while attending Garfield Event(s) Clearwater …

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Livinglies Discovers where the documents and emails are kept by whom

It was only a matter of time. This is probably the tip of the iceberg. index.htm “Autonomy ZANTAZ is renowned for its blue chip customer base including diverse and global corporations ranging across industry sectors and geographies, including banking, insurance, pharmaceutical, medical products, biotech, healthcare, entertainment, energy, law firms and litigation services. Furthermore, US and …

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Executive Accused of Mortgage-Securities Scheme – EVERYONE HAS BEEN PAID AT LEAST ONCE, 100 CENTS ON THE DOLLAR, PLUS FEES AND PROFITS. NOW THEY WANT YOUR HOUSE TOO. ARE YOU GOING TO LET THAT HAPPEN?

DECEMBER 12, 2008 Editor’s Note: They would have us believe that this was an exception to the rule. It wasn’t. In fact this WAS the rule. The reasons why Wall Street was awash in money were (a) they were successfully selling unregulated securities under false pretenses and false ratings and (b) they pressured guys like …

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Ponzi Scheme According to FBI — Billions of dollars in Fraud — and they want your house too?

madoffcomplaint madoff-and-the-rest-of-wall-street-after-receiving-17page-report-sec-does-nothing-same-withy-mortgage-meltdown DECEMBER 11, 2008, 7:08 P.M. ET Madoff Charged With Securities Fraud By AMIR EFRATI, TOM LAURICELLA and DIONNE SEARCEY Madoff.com Bernard Madoff Bernard L. Madoff, the founder of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities and a fixture of the Wall Street trading world for decades, was arrested Thursday morning by Federal Bureau of Investigation …

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Covered in the Garfield Continuum Workshops: You Can Look this Stuff Up in Wikopedia

How to Save $$ while attending Garfield Event(s) Napa CA Jan. 19-20, 2009 registration-homeowners-workshop-jan-20-2009-napa-ca /// registration-lawyers-workshop-jan-19-2009-napa-ca * Reserve Workshop Seat prior to Jan 9, 2009 for Early Bird discount on Registration * Reserve seats before 12/31 to deduct expense from 2008 taxes * Mention Garfield’s Foreclosure Defense Group when reserving rooms to get special Group Rate of $159 …

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Missal Report Documents New Century Predatory Lending Even After General Counsel Warned Against It — Borrowers May Have Cause of Action Against Auditor KPMG

Report: New Century’s GC Warned Managers of Subprime Danger Sue Reisinger Corporate Counsel March 31, 2008 Listening to its general counsel might well have saved New Century Financial Corp., once the nation’s second-largest subprime mortgage lender, from plunging into bankruptcy a year ago. That’s one lesson from a 581-page report filed Wednesday by Michael Missal.A …

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MORTGAGE INDUSTRY KNOWS THEY HAVE CHAIN OF TITLE PROBLEMS: COMPANIES SPRINGING UP TO "CORRECT" (I.E, CREATE) DOCUMENTS

STRAIGHT OFF THE NET THANKS TO READER ALLON HILL IS THE NAME OF THIS PARTICULAR COMPANY. I’M SURE THERE ARE DOZENS OF OTHERS. Assignment Recording Residential or commercial, Agency or private delivery, Allon Hill offers a complete menu of mortgage assignment services. In the past 14 years, Allon Hill has prepared and recorded over 5 …

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