Archive for 'bubble' Category
Jul 2, 2010

The article below was purloined from www.foreclosureblues.wordpress.com — the comments are mine. Neil Garfield “According to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Deutsche Bank now holds loans for American single-family and multi-family houses worth about $3.7 billion (€3.1 billion). The bank, however, claims that much of this debt consists of loans to wealthy private customers. (EDITOR’S […]

Jun 21, 2010

The model concluded that roughly one-third of the loans were for amounts that were 105 percent or more of the underlying property’s value. Roughly 5.5 percent of the loans in the pools had appraisals that were lower than they should have been. In one pool with 3,543 loans, for example, the CoreLogic model had enough […]

Jun 18, 2010

Got this off the “Mortgage Servicing News” newsletter: June 16, 2010 Investigation Highlights Challenges to Foreclosure Docs By Kate Berry The backlash is intensifying against banks and mortgage servicers that try to foreclose on homes without all their ducks in a row. Because the notes were often sold and resold during the boom years, many […]

Jun 18, 2010

From usedkarguy To: M. Soliman, I wrote to Neils’ blog over 10 months ago stating the exact facts that you are promulgating here in this recent post. I have been in litigation for over a year now and have been removed to US Dist. Court recently, at the behest of Deutsche Bank. They have brought […]

Jun 17, 2010

“The fraud here is truly stunning in its scale and complexity,” said Lanny A. Breuer, assistant attorney general in the criminal division of the Department of Justice. “These charges send a strong message to corporations and corporate executives alike that financial fraud will be found, and it will be prosecuted.” Once they determined that that […]

Jun 17, 2010

Editor’s Note: Housing prices will continue to decline until median income starts to flatten out. All signs indicate that we are in for another 10%-20% drop as conventionally measured. Remember that housing prices do NOT take into consideration selling expenses and concessions at closing. All things considered, housing prices should be at least 8% under […]

Jun 16, 2010

SUBMITTED BY M SOLIMAN EDITOR’S NOTE: Soliman brings out some interesting and important issues in his dialogue with Raja. The gist of what he is saying about sales accounting runs to the core of how you disprove the allegations of your opposition. In a nutshell and somewhat oversimplified: If they were the lender then their […]

Jun 13, 2010

“The court certainly agrees that ‘mistakes happen,’ ” Judge Bohm wrote. “However, when mistakes happen not once, not twice, but repeatedly, and when actions are not taken to correct these mistakes within a reasonable period of time, the failure to right the wrong — particularly when the basis for the problem is a months-long violation of […]

Jun 12, 2010

Submitted by Beth Findsen, Esq. in Scottsdale, Az Investors-suing-Chase-includes-list-of-mortgage-backed-securities-various-originators-like-New-Century-WAMU-Wells-Fargo-ResMae-Greenpoint-Coun One of the many things I find interesting in this lawsuit is that FINALLY the pretender lenders are at least being referred to as originators and not banks, lenders or any of the other things that had most people believing. Here too investors sue the rating […]

Jun 11, 2010

Submitted by Abby: MORE FRAUDSTERS CAUGHT BY CALIF ATTY GENERAL BROWN!!! News Release June 09, 2010 For Immediate Release Contact: (510) 622-4500 Contact: Christine Gasparac or Evan Westrup, (510) 622-4500 Christine.Gasparac@doj.ca.gov or Evan.Westrup@doj.ca.gov Print Version Three More Suspects Nabbed in Million-Dollar Bait-and-Switch Home Refinance Scam LOS ANGELES – In a continuing probe into a defunct […]