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The new president is facing incoming fire from all directions. If he does not extend the moratorium on foreclosures and evictions, hundreds of thousands of people are going to be homeless. But the extension does not come without costs. https://www.marketplace.org/2021/01/25/biden-acts-on-evictions-foreclosures-but-long-term-housing-crisis-looms/ See also https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/black-knights-first-look-2020-ends-with-1-7-million-more-seriously-delinquent-homeowners-than-at-start-of-year-foreclosures-at-record-low-301211915.html * As you have seen on these pages, I am quite confident […]
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 SHARE THIS POST WITH LAWYERS YOU KNOW!!! This show is devoted to convincing the lawyers who will listen that they are missing out on something very profitable and important. Representing homeowners faced […]
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Modifications are tricky. They are trickier than you think. First of all the offer is made by a company who has no right to act as “servicer” or to change the terms of your contract. By changing the apparent lender or creditor to the named servicer, the agreement is probably tricking you into accepting a […]
you made all that revenue possible by signing a note and mortgage in favor of someone who was not lending you any money. Nobody told you about that. And nobody told you that you were not entering a transaction in which there was a lender and borrower. There was only a borrower. The simple fact […]
“Morality is an existential threat to commerce and politics. Although we legislate morality we refuse to enforce it. It is OK to lie to consumers or borrowers but not OK to lie to a financial institution who by the way is lying to you.” Neil F Garfield, October 2009 speech to regional bankruptcy conference in […]
Servicers did not make any advances. They never did and they never will. They said they did but they didn’t. If you read the prospectus carefully you will see that the money from investors is divided into three parts. * The first part is the purchase of a certificate that promises payments to the investor […]
Since foreclosures are about to start another meteoric rise, this would be a good time to write a new article on what went wrong the last time, what is going on now, and what is still likely to go wrong this time. * I know that some of the rantings on the internet seem like the […]
Governor Ron DeSantis (R) Florida, issued a new order extending the moratoriums on foreclosures and evictions. * The investment banks on Wall Street like this turn of events because they no longer need to lie orally to homeowners in order to get them to fall behind in payments. Their goal is foreclosure and eviction mostly […]
A reader recently asked about Lehman, noting that many from the old Lehman crowd have regrouped under Matrix Private Capital Group in New York. Even Richard Fuld is there. In any case involving Lehman-engineered “loans,” one critical step should be considered: take his deposition. What Lehman Actually Did Here’s the counterintuitive truth: Since that payment […]


