Archive for 'bubble' Category
Apr 12, 2010

Editor’s Note: This article might help you understand the workings of a yield spread premium. For every 1% difference in interest rate the “cost” of the loan to you goes up 19%. Now if you look at it from the point of view of the “lender” that means the “value” goes up by 19%. That […]

Apr 7, 2010

The case follows on the dismissal of numerous foreclosure cases in which judges across the U.S. have found that the materials banks had submitted to support their claims were wrong. Faulty bank paperwork has been an issue in foreclosure proceedings since the housing crisis took hold a few years ago. It is often difficult to […]

Apr 6, 2010

AHMSI (American Home Mortgage Servicing Inc) purchased substantially all of Option One Mortgage about two years ago. AHMSI is owned by the texas billionaire Wilbur Ross. A number of Option One’s loans are now serviced by SPS, Select Portfolio Servicing, formerly Fairbanks Capital, which changed their name following DOJ sanctions and a 48 million dollar […]

Apr 6, 2010

REGISTER NOW FOR DISCOVERY AND MOTION PRACTICE WORKSHOP SHOW ME THE BOND!: 9th CIRCUIT AFFIRMS BACKDOOR REQUIREMENT FOR ENHANCED “CREDITOR” DISCLOSURE REQUIREMENTS IN CHAPTER 13 PLAN: SEE chapter 13 debtorsHerrera Monroy opinion 09-1175 (9th Cir BAP 01 05 2010) Among the things we will cover at the May workshop on Motion Practice and Discovery, are […]

Apr 5, 2010

From Eric Mesi MERs has a manual and I included some of it below regarding foreclosures. But who would know if their manual is correct? Of course they will write it to protect their selves. Section 2: (a) If a Member chooses to conduct foreclosures in the name of Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., the […]

Apr 5, 2010

Analyzed and Presented by Charles Koppa, MORTGAGE AUTOPSIES There are 131 pages within links at the bottom for Maiden Lane Disclosures (a year later).  They give ONLY NAMES of nearly 800 underlying Securities Trusts with NO NAMES/LINKS to the original Grantors in the Deed of Trust for underlying “toxic mortgages” which attach real estate collateral that allowed securitization for each CUSIP.  That information remains in […]

Apr 5, 2010

In the NY Fed disclosure of the TARP payments, they show various certificates that were tendered for cash. In Maiden Lane I, it shows the CDS’s for 11 certificates from the WFHET_05-2, mostly M8 but also an M9 and M7 certificate. Some of the values show a positive amount (8,200,000, i.e) and some show negative […]

Apr 4, 2010

Editor’s Note: Put simply this crisis will still be ongoing in 20 years. When you add the student loans that were securitized and which were “non-dischargable” in bankruptcy because of the government guarantee of the “risk” (which never existed because the risk was sold before the loan was ever funded, hence the guarantee should not […]