hat tip Bill Paatalo You can't pick up one end of the stick without picking up the other end as well. Or, if you like, you can't eat your cake and still have it. Banks used third party intermediaries all the time, and in non-mortgage loans they are considered as the real lender for purposes of being able to charge…[...]

Continue Reading

Without a contract in writing executed with the formalities required for transfer of interests in real property, it is highly probable that any instrument executed on behalf of MERS means nothing without the necessity of drilling into the authority or knowledge of the signor. In fact, it might just be that the execution of an assignment might be the utterance…[...]

Continue Reading

Thursdays LIVE! Click in to the Neil Garfield Show Tonight’s Show Hosted by Charles Marshall, Esq. Call in at (347) 850-1260, 6pm Eastern Thursdays   One of the things that irritates most homeowners and lawyers for foreclosure defense is how "evidence" is admitted that "proves" a fact that doesn't exist. One of the tools for doing that is Judicial Notice or as…[...]

Continue Reading

Hat tip Michael Bazemore It's not easy to see but if you look at the court docket after a ruling against the parties designated as "foreclosing parties" you can see that these cases are often dismissed with reference to an agreement or settlement between the parties. The typical pleading asking the court to dismiss the case will read as follows:…[...]

Continue Reading

Ryan Torrens, Esq., a Florida attorney who apparently does his homework, posted this article on his website. see Summary Judgment for Homeowner - Don't give Up For those of you in foreclosure who may wonder if you have any rights, the answer is yes, you do! I recently won a summary judgment against a foreclosing bank in a foreclosure case in…[...]

Continue Reading

I have distilled the legal points and procedure of TILA Rescission down to their essentials and specifics as you can see below. In the case presented the 9th Circuit ruled in favor of the homeowner but in so doing continued to violate the law of the land enunciated by the Supreme Court of the United States and Congress. Yes the…[...]

Continue Reading

For those who like what I write but have doubts about what I am saying consider this article that is based upon truth and nothing but the truth. According to a Rolling Stone article published in 2015 by Matt Taibbi, "one of America's ugliest secrets is that our own whistleblowers often don't do so well after the headlines fade and cameras recede.…[...]

Continue Reading

Thursdays LIVE! Click in to the Neil Garfield Show Tonight’s Show Hosted by Neil Garfield Call in at (347) 850-1260, 6pm Eastern Thursdays I am nothing if not persistent. 12 years ago my analysis of the real estate market caused me to make a number of conclusions about the real estate market being priced far over value, about the crash, and about…[...]

Continue Reading

Two days ago in the case of Obudskey v McCarthy and Holthus LLP the  Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) heard oral argument on issues relating to the application of the Federal Debt Collection Procedures Act (FDCPA). The argument for including the law firm pursuing foreclosure was presented by DANIEL L. GEYSER, Esq. in a case that started in…[...]

Continue Reading

Yesterday's article was about a paradigm shift at the Florida Supreme Court that flipped, for the most part, law that prevented homeowners from being granted attorney fees when they won their foreclosure cases. Today (hat tip to Greg Da Goose) I received an article published by Burr Forman (bank lawyers) that admitted that the ruling was surprising and also projected…[...]

Continue Reading