Obama is of course correct in his outrage. Taking hundreds of billions of dollars from the taxpayers to cover the appearances of catastrophic losses and then paying bonuses for good management is over the top by any standards. But neither he nor the media is correct in assuming that that the bonuses were not in …
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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 …
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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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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. …
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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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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Kevin Lamson Said, So can anyone guess the name of “organization” that was formed by Countrywide’s, Anthony Mazillo and Fannie Mae’s, James Johnson ten years ago it start with an M? No not the Mafia. It’s Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. commonly referred to as MERS. Yes that’s right Countrywide and Fannie Mae were the …
OK it’s complicated. But I have distilled it down to a few sound bites that more or less captures the basic truth of why you don’t owe the money on that mortgage note, credit card, student loan, auto loan, furniture loan etc. Even small businesses might not owe their small business loans. There are exceptions …
BORROWERS BETRAYED | I-TEAM SPECIAL REPORT Exec had mortgage racket down to an art Orson Benn has gone to prison for falsifying applications, but a former associate in Homestead still sells mortgages. Borrowers Betrayed Part 4 Orson Benn’s network of mortgage brokers wrote thousands of subprime loans in Miami-Dade which have gone into foreclosure. MIAMI …
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 …
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 …
QUESTION: I want to confirm something with you: 1. TILA does not apply to purchase money. 2. TILA apply to refinance of mortgage. Is that correct? ANSWER: This is a far more complex question than it appears. Normally it would be simple. But in the context of the mortgage meltdown of 2001-2008 there are more questions than …
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The start of every case, as I see it, is the collection of facts and documents, so that a complete mortgage evaluation and status report can be prepared by an independent third party who can serve as an expert witness if the need arises. The current “cottage industry” of TILA audits is insufficient but a …
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Kentucky Appeals Court Affirms Lower Court “Kibosh” On Arbitartion Clause In Mortgage; Homeowners Facing Foreclosure To Have TILA Claims Heard In Richmond, Kentucky, The Richmond Register reports: * The Kentucky Court of Appeals has ruled in favor of a Waco couple who were the subject of a foreclosure action by Bank of New York Trust …
IN THE SUPERIOR/CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF xxxxxxxxx LOCATED AT xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx OF THE COUNTY OF xxxxxxxxxxxxx OF THE STATE OF xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. Your Name VS Trustee Name 1st Mortgage Name 2d Mortgage Name VERIFIED EMERGENCY MOTION TO SET ASIDE JUDGMENT, CANCEL SALE AND DISMISS ACTION FOR FAILURE OF JURISDICTION AND LACK OF STANDING. Comes …
