Archive for 'foreclosure defenses' Category
Jul 22, 2019

You had the ultimate leverage when they needed your signature to start the loan agreement. Now you have the ultimate leverage if you can properly plead and become a credible threat based upon wrongful foreclosure. If a trust is named or implied as mortgagee or beneficiary you are not just threatening the one case of […]

Jul 11, 2019

Many of you have essentially asked the same question referring to Article 9 §203 UCC as adopted by the laws of your state. There is no known cause of action for breach of that statute although one might be conjured. It is an interesting suggestion. My reference to it is simple: the statute says that […]

Jun 18, 2019

The wording of the decision strongly suggests that whether the claimant is US Bank, Deutsch or BONY Mellon et al, the third party who is actually paying the lawyer must be disclosed — at least if the homeowner asks. Given the nature of the role that the alleged Trustee plays — i.e., none except to […]

Jun 11, 2019

Another case showing shifting attitudes toward illegal foreclosures. At the trial level there have been many such decisions, some with an expanded finding of fact showing that the foreclosure was a sham. On appeal, the courts were always looking for ways to sustain the foreclosure; they still do that but more and more appellate courts […]

Jun 5, 2019

Anyone who knows about foreclosure litigation and securitization of residential debt knows that the only way the banks could succeed is if they had a central repository and central command center from which all documents were fabricated and all instructions were issued. For nearly all loans the central command was Lender Processing Systems, aided by […]

May 29, 2019

What Is an Allonge? An allonge is an additional sheet of paper firmly attached to a promissory note to provide space for endorsements. It is only necessary when there isn’t enough room on the note itself. Key elements for a valid allonge: It is separate from the note but permanently affixed. It contains endorsements (or […]

May 28, 2019

Most people do not have a clear understanding about Quiet Title, because it means one thing to them and another thing in court. The common misconception about quiet title is that it is a thing that just happens, like the result of a magic bullet. In fact quiet title is a court process that begins […]

May 21, 2019

It’s easy to blame borrowers for loans that are in “default.” The American consensus is based upon “personal responsibility”; so when a loan fails the borrower simply failed. But this does not take into account the hundreds of millions of dollars spent every year peddling loans in the media and the billions of dollars paid […]

May 14, 2019

References to sales of loans and servicing rights are usually merely false assertions to distract homeowners and lawyers from looking at what is really happened. By accepting the premise that the loan was sold you are accepting that the loan was (a) real and (b) owned by the party who was designated to appear as […]

May 13, 2019

NOTE: This case reads like  law review article. It is well worth reading and studying, piece by piece. Judge Marx has taken a lot of time to research, analyze the documents, and write a very clear opinion on the truth about the documents that were used in this case, and by extension the documents that […]