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MOST POPULAR ARTICLES CLICK HERE TO GET COMBO TITLE AND SECURITIZATION REPORT The investors who purchased David Stern’s foreclosure mill have taken the extraordinary step of announcing publicly that they had been duped into buying a “criminal enterprise.” Obviously they didn’t want to get caught up in the dragnet of prosecutors looking for convictions. Nobody …

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MOST POPULAR ARTICLES CLICK HERE TO GET COMBO TITLE AND SECURITIZATION REPORT by Tim McCandless Lona v. Citibank     Docket Cal.App. 6th Dist (H036140)  12/21/11TRUSTEE‘S SALES: The court reversed a summary judgment in favor of defendants in an action seeking to set aside a trustee’s sale on the basis that the loan was unconscionable. The court …

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MOST POPULAR ARTICLES CLICK HERE TO GET COMBO TITLE AND SECURITIZATION REPORT EDITOR’S COMMENT: Truth meets fiction.  Fiction wins. Most people refer to this period in our history as a recovery period. It is not. We are (a) in continual decline and (b) headed for another, larger crisis. The government’s attention to creating jobs has …

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MOST POPULAR ARTICLES CLICK HERE TO GET COMBO TITLE AND SECURITIZATION REPORT EDITOR’S NOTE: Wiley makes a very good point and one which ought to be considered strategically when referring to these entities in court, in articles, pleadings, memos etc. By conceding that they acted as banks, we grant them credibility they don’t deserve. Many …

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MOST POPULAR ARTICLES CLICK HERE TO GET COMBO TITLE AND SECURITIZATION REPORT EDITOR’S NOTE: Most lawyers, homeowners and even Judges take issue with me over whether the challenge on the right to represent the forecloser exists. Why else would the lawyer be there? But as I’ve stated before and say again, it happens very often …

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MOST POPULAR ARTICLES CLICK HERE TO GET COMBO TITLE AND SECURITIZATION REPORT Stress of foreclosure can make homeowners ill Studies find illness rises where foreclosures highest THE HIDDEN COSTS OF MASSIVE FORECLOSURES By Bob LaMendola, Sun Sentinel Foreclosures are making Florida homeowners sick. A series of studies over the past year, including one that zeroed …

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MOST POPULAR ARTICLES CLICK HERE TO GET COMBO TITLE AND SECURITIZATION REPORT “so long as the plaintiff alleges facts to support a theory that is not facially implausible, the court’s skepticism is best reserved for later stages of the proceedings when the plaintiff’s case can be rejected on evidentiary grounds.” In re Gilead Sciences Securities …

9TH CIRCUIT: TILA RESCISSION REVIVED AND RETURN TO NORMAL RULES OF PROCEDURE Read More »

MOST POPULAR ARTICLES CLICK HERE TO GET COMBO TITLE AND SECURITIZATION REPORT EDITOR’S COMMENT: UNFAIR, RIGHT?  Why should people who made a bad deal get out of it? That is rewarding stupid behavior and will just make them do it again, costing us taxpayers even more money. And what about me? I’m underwater or I …

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MOST POPULAR ARTICLES CLICK HERE TO GET COMBO TITLE AND SECURITIZATION REPORT EDITOR’S COMMENT: Max has captured the mood of all of us frustrated by the oppression and depression that has gripped the psyche of our country. What I don’t understand is how lawyers are rationalizing their failure to join the fight. Even if their …

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MOST POPULAR ARTICLES CLICK HERE TO GET COMBO TITLE AND SECURITIZATION REPORT EDITOR’S COMMENT: It always seems like you need firepower — wealth or political clout to simply get justice. The foreclosure was wrong, the figures were wrong and the policy was wrong. Law enforcement has an obligation to step in and assist those people …

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MOST POPULAR ARTICLES CLICK HERE TO GET COMBO TITLE AND SECURITIZATION REPORT “Over the next year, I expect the “what” will give way to the “how” in the broad electorate’s comprehension of the financial situation. The 99 percent must learn to differentiate the bloodsuckers and rent-extractors from those in the 1 percent who make the …

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MOST POPULAR ARTICLES CLICK HERE TO GET COMBO TITLE AND SECURITIZATION REPORT ARE WE GOING TO GIVE THE BANKS ANOTHER $16 TRILLION? Between TARP (only $700 Billion) and the FED bailouts ($16 TRILLION) the Banks have already received from all of us enough money to pay off every mortgage, credit card, student loan, auto loan …

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