MOST POPULAR ARTICLES GET COMBO TITLE AND SECURITIZATION ANALYSIS – CLICK HERE EDITOR'S COMMENT: Simon Johnson and Paul Krugman have consistently been right, so there is no reason to suspect they are wrong this time. The big banks are too big to manage, too big to regulate and too big for people to do business with them on a level…[...]

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MOST POPULAR ARTICLES GET COMBO TITLE AND SECURITIZATION ANALYSIS – CLICK HERE BANKS FORCING US TO LIVE THEIR LIES EDITOR'S NOTE: If the same thing is happening in China, Europe, Asia etc., then how do any of the explanations from the Banks, Mayor Bloomberg or anyone else make any sense? It's the Banks, stupid! Those "values" used at closing were…[...]

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MOST POPULAR ARTICLES GET COMBO TITLE AND SECURITIZATION ANALYSIS – CLICK HERE EDITOR'S NOTE: OK the last round of stress tests was a PR stunt to assure the world that the US finance system was not falling apart when in fact it was and did fall apart and we are dealing with the cover-up phase now. But there is a…[...]

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MOST POPULAR ARTICLES GET COMBO TITLE AND SECURITIZATION ANALYSIS – CLICK HER Happy Thanksgiving from Florida’s Fourth District Posted on November 23, 2011 by Mark Stopa Florida’s Fourth District Court of Appeal issued two wonderful opinions today, just in time for Thanksgiving. In Duke v. HSBC Mortgage Services, LLC, the court reversed an order granting a bank’s motion for summary…[...]

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MOST POPULAR ARTICLES GET COMBO TITLE AND SECURITIZATION ANALYSIS – CLICK HERE EDITOR'S NOTE: Blame the victim, blame the lawmakers, and now blame the regulators. I was expecting this. It's an obvious move and it provides plenty of cover for virtual amnesty to the Banks by claiming the whole mess was the fault of the regulators, who it turns out…[...]

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MOST POPULAR ARTICLES GET COMBO TITLE AND SECURITIZATION ANALYSIS – CLICK HERE MORE HOMEOWNERS WALKING AWAY FROM BAD DEAL "As more homeowners fall underwater, strategic default has become a bigger headache for mortgage lenders. A recent study by the MBA's Research Institute for Housing America found that strategic defaults tend to cluster around homes already in foreclosure as friends, family and…[...]

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MOST POPULAR ARTICLES GET COMBO TITLE AND SECURITIZATION ANALYSIS – CLICK HERE EDITOR'S NOTE: As expected the foreclosure "reviews" are being done using outside "consultants" who have a lot to lose if the foreclosures, the mortgages, and the mortgage bonds were bogus.  Accounting firms certified the financial statements of dozens of banks holding these securities after an "audit." But I…[...]

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MOST POPULAR ARTICLES GET COMBO TITLE AND SECURITIZATION ANALYSIS – CLICK HER Submitted on 2011/11/22 at 7:31 pm Vacating a Foreclosure Judgment for Lack of Notice Posted on November 21, 2011 by Mark Stopa http://www.stayinmyhome.com/blog/2011/11/vacating-a-foreclosure-judgment-for-lack-of-notice/ I had a case today where the fact-pattern may seem unique, but I suspect it’s not. My client hired an attorney to represent her in…[...]

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MOST POPULAR ARTICLES GET COMBO TITLE AND SECURITIZATION ANALYSIS – CLICK HERE "workers joked that bogus documents were being produced in the “art department.” "Supervisors’ behavior degenerated from vulgar to threatening, she claimed, when she started complaining about inflated property appraisals and other misconduct. Managers often forged borrowers’ signatures on loan documents and made up fake verification of employment forms,…[...]

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MOST POPULAR ARTICLES GET COMBO TITLE AND SECURITIZATION ANALYSIS – CLICK HERE EDITOR'S NOTE: Sooner or later, these institutions an opportunity to both get their money and make some money in the resolution of these all-but-failed institutions. The answer is to make the mortgage bonds real and the way to do that is to make the mortgages real. Leaving the…[...]

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