Getting the closing instructions and the closing documents, including the wire transfer receipts and wire transfer instructions, one is able to piece tog ether that escrow was never properly closed. This could mean that escrow is still open — leaving open the option of a three day rescission. Dan points out in response to me […]

Tags: Bogan v. Wiley (1949), closing of escrow, conditions precedent to closing escrow, delivery of note, escrow agent, failure of delivery of an instrument, Jeannerette v. Taylor (1934), POSSESSION VERSUS AUTHORITY OR RIGHT TO ENFORCE THE INSTRUMENT], Sousa v. First California Co. (1950), Todd v. Vestermark (1956)
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With tens of thousands of cases running many years before foreclosure is started and with many cases ripe for dismissal for lack of prosecution, the Banks are in a full court press attempting to get modifications or even going to trial on cases they know are problematic at best. I am receiving scores of reports […]

Tags: "modification" agreement, dismissal of action, failure to prosecute, laches, statute of limitations
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NOTE: THE FOLLOWING IS A LEGAL ANALYSIS THAT MAY OR MAY NOT APPLY TO CASES ON WHICH YOU ARE WORKING. IT IS REALLY MEANT FOR ATTORNEYS WHO ARE REPRESENTING PARTIES IN FORECLOSURE LITIGATION. No lay person should assume that anything in this article is true or applies to their case. Nobody should use this information […]

Tags: ABN AMRO merger with BofA, ABN AMRO merger with Citi, Bank of America, Bank of America as trustee, Citimortgage, Citimortgage as trustee, Federal reserve order on BOA-LaSalle Merger, LaSalle bank, LaSalle Bank as trustee, servicer, US BANK, US Bank as trustee, US Bank website
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Editor’s note: in preparing a complex motion for the court in several related cases I ended up writing the following which I would like to share with my readers. As you can see, the issues that were once thought to be simple and susceptible to rocket docket determination are in fact complex civil cases involving […]

Tags: ABN AMRO, acquisition, authority to represent, Bank of America, demand letter, foreclosure, foreclosure defense issues, LaSalle bank, merger, modification, notice of acelleration, Notice of Default, Power of Attorney, reinstatement, rocket docket, sec.gov, servicer, sucessor by merger, trustee, US BANK
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EDITOR’S NOTE: By popular demand I am writing a new workbook that is up to date on the theories and practices of real estate loans, documentation, securitizations and effective enforcement and foreclosure of the collateral (real property — i.e., the house). The book will be finished around the end of January. If you want to […]

Tags: acceptance, assignment, Bench Book, consideration, debt, foreclosure defense, foreclosure defense workbook, Garfield Continuum, Judge Jennfier bailey, loan contract, Mortgage, mortgage transactions, note, note mortgage, offer, securitization, workbook
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  EDITOR’S NOTE: this is why I am encouraging attorneys to take cases involving foreclosure, even if the foreclosure itself is problematic. The FDCPA federal counterpart essentially states the same rules. These cases allow for damages and recovery of attorney fees that might aid in the cost of protracted litigation by a pretender lender. Most […]

Tags: business relationship, categorically, cell, cellular phones, collect a debt, collection, communicate, consumer, Debt Collection, emergency calls, exempt, exempted, exemption, express consent, factual allegations, foreclose, foreclosure, foreclosure action, landline, Mortgage, notice, phone, pre-suit, prerecorded, security interest, servicer, solicitations, telephone, telephone-solicitation
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One of the rewarding aspects of what I do is to see more and more people not only hopping on board, understanding securitization, but adding to the body of knowledge I have amassed. In the following article Bill Paatalo, who has done the loan level accounting for many of our readers, expands upon a topic […]

Tags: Auction, Bill Paatalo, credit bid, default, foreclosure sale, Notice of Default, Notice of Sale, redemption, reinstatement, standing
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I keep getting inundated with creative arguments about the documentation, which is exactly the rabbit hole that the Banks want you to go down. It is a trap. Technical attacks on documentation are not going to win the day because in the end, it is public policy for negotiable instruments to be safe bets in […]

Tags: account payable, account receivable, co-obligors in securitized loan transactions, defective documentation, Servicer advances, third party payments
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EDITOR’S NOTE: The dots are starting to get connected. Here JP Morgan who said they were the successor for everything that was WAMU turns out to be arguing that this didn’t actually happen and that some money is still left in the WAMU “estate.” The issue that is not raised is what else is in […]

Tags: Chase, complex litigation, FDIC, foreclosures, JP Morgan, JPM, rocket docket, WAMU, WAMU estate
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Many homeowners get tax statements from entities claiming the right to file them, with an EIN that is problematic. We are having trouble linking the EIN with the name of the entity that sends the tax statement. More importantly or perhaps of equal importance is the question raised by individual homeowners and investors who have […]

Tags: deductible interest payments, default, IRS, mortgage foreclosures, Servicer advances
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