Archive for 'foreclosure defenses' Category
Dec 9, 2021

Thursdays LIVE! Click into the Neil Garfield Show Tonight’s Show Hosted by Neil Garfield, Esq. Call in at (347) 850-1260, 6 pm Eastern Thursdays As a follow-up to our FREE presentation CLE webinar on Prelitigation Strategies and Practices, we offer an open mike Q&A on tonight’s show. Please think about your questions in advance and refrain […]

Dec 3, 2021

if the investment bank paid the homeowner as an incentive payment rather than as a loan, then there is no debt any more than salary or wages can later be called a loan. The fact that the consumer/homeowner thought or even wished it were otherwise makes no diffeerence. If I pay you money and you […]

Dec 1, 2021

The idea that some company bearing the label of “servicer” is performing financial functions and accounting on behalf of an investor, a trust, a trustee is completely false from end to end. Such companies do nothing and were never intended to do anything except act as a buffer, in name only, to prevent liability attaching […]

Nov 30, 2021

The answer to this question depends upon the homeowner — not the judge. * If the homeowner rigorously, aggressively and persistently seeks enforcement of the rules of civil procedure, the rules of discovery, the rules of evidence and enforcement of court orders, the chances of quite good that the homeowner role reach a very favorable […]

Nov 29, 2021

It’s not the job of courts to save litigants from their own admissions.  Here is a simple rule: if you admit the existence of the loan account receivable and you admit the rights of the servicer and the currently named claimant, you have no viable basis to challenge standing or enforceability. “Yes, but” doesn’t count […]

Nov 16, 2021

I’m often bewildered when people act surprised by what I’ve been documenting for years. Everything on my blog comes from hard data, legal proceedings, and administrative findings — not speculation. Yes, the system is corrupt. But here’s the reality: being right isn’t enough in court. If you step into litigation without understanding procedure and evidence, […]

Nov 10, 2021

Homeowners are missing out on a huge opportunity for economic gain that balances the power between Wall Street and consumers.  Courts of equity are courts of conscience, which should not be shackled by rigid rules of procedure,[51] and inherent in a court’s equitable powers is the authority to prevent injustice engendered by fraud, accident, or mistake.[52] […]

Sep 21, 2021

LEARN HOW TO FIGHT WITH HONOR AND WIN! After some reflection, legal research and analysis I have come to the conclusion that a very good way for homeowners to put tracks in the sand that they can use later with success is to use the following protocol — subject to the opinion of local counsel: […]

Sep 16, 2021

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Sep 15, 2021

The Core of the “Rent-A-Charter” Scheme Anyone familiar with organized crime knows its survival depends on paying people to “take the heat.” Investment banks institutionalized this concept through illegal Rent-A-Charter schemes, which appear legitimate but collapse under scrutiny. Researcher Bill Paatalo has shown how Rent-A-Charter is used in two distinct ways: Securitization schemes Foreclosure schemes […]