EVERYONE IS GETTING A PIECE OF THE SECURITIZATION PIE EXCEPT CONSUMERS WITHOUT WHOM IT WOULD NOT EXIST Retailers are NEVER going to challenge what Wall Street is doing to consumers because virtually everything is sold with an offer to make installment payments --- which in turn results in the sale of securities far in excess of any purchase. Retailers have increased…[...]

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There is an important difference between sending letters to regulators complaining about lack of action on behalf of consumers and sending a QWR, DVL and complaints to CFPB and State Attroeny General on specific cases. The first one is a political act, not likely to produce results unless millions of people join with you in one form or another. The…[...]

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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 As a follow-up to our FREE presentation CLE webinar on Prelitigation Strategies and Practices, we offer an open mike Q&A on tonight's show. Please think about your questions in advance and refrain from long monologues about your…[...]

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There is a difference between securitization, on the one hand, and securitization of debt, on the other. They are not the same thing. The entire scheme that is currently advertised or represented as securitization of debt is false. Securitization refers to the creation, issuance, sale and trading of securities. There is no doubt that securities were issued, although I take…[...]

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I'm busy today so I can't publish my usual long analytical article. But one thing that is constantly staring at me is the fact that the national press and news releases are in basic conflict with local media. And the fact that local media is going out of business isn't helping. Black Knight is a company whose size and reputation…[...]

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https://www.forbes.com/advisor/debt-relief/using-debt-verification-debt-validation-letters/ It's a business. Anyone can make a claim. Anyone can say that they are representing someone who has a claim. If you don't contest it, the claim might be presumed as valid even though it has no basis in fact. The investment banks don't want you to read articles like the above link in Forbes magazine. Besides corroborating many…[...]

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So a friend of mine left her phone in my car. Here is what I wrote to her: Thank you for leaving your phone in my possession, which as you know is 9/10s of the law. That means that even though you paid for it and you received ownership from the seller, I can now claim it as my property.…[...]

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if the investment bank paid the homeowner as an incentive payment rather than as a loan, then there is no debt any more than salary or wages can later be called a loan. The fact that the consumer/homeowner thought or even wished it were otherwise makes no diffeerence. If I pay you money and you think it is a loan…[...]

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Thursdays LIVE! Click in to the WEST COAST Neil Garfield Show with Charles Marshall and Bill Paatalo Or call in at (347) 850-1260, 6pm Eastern Thursdays The legal case of US Bank (trust) v. UBS (United Bank of Switzerland) Real Estate was decided in 2016 in SDNY. The order following decision extends for literally more than 100 pages. The gist of the case…[...]

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The idea that some company bearing the label of "servicer" is performing financial functions and accounting on behalf of an investor, a trust, a trustee is completely false from end to end. Such companies do nothing and were never intended to do anything except act as a buffer, in name only, to prevent liability attaching to investment banks who had…[...]

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