Editor's Note: This article might help you understand the workings of a yield spread premium. For every 1% difference in interest rate the "cost" of the loan to you goes up 19%. Now if you look at it from the point of view of the "lender" that means the "value" goes up by 19%. That means, on a $100,000 loan…[...]
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Moral Hazard in Non-Judicial Sale: Trustee commits violations of FDCPA and other statutes!
Apr 11, 2010
From Eaine B Editor's Note: I have long advocated sending letters, objections to sale and complaints against "trustees" named (or substituted) on deeds of trust who initiate foreclosure proceedings. Indeed, it is highly probable that because of statutes attempting to protect the trustee from liability, the trustee is at best usually named only as a nominal party in a lawsuit…[...]
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Lehman-Barclay Deal Hid Windfall of $11 Billion
Apr 11, 2010
"relief from the sale order is warranted by law whether there was an innocent mistake or deliberate concealment." Editor's Note: When you watch these events unfold, you might begin to realize that the windfall is not to the homeowner who gets the foreclosure thrown out of court, it already happened for the financial players who continue to reap their rewards.…[...]
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And THAT is why you are entitled to compel discovery, compel answers to your QWR, DVL and other requests. If the losses were not real, if the pools were marked down solely on the say-so of the financial institutions that created them, if the default rate was really much lower than the declared defaults, if AMBAC, AIG and others made…[...]
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The bad news is that the Court mistakenly assumes that MERS must be the party to enforce because the MERS assignment was backdated. MERS specifically and publicly disclaims any interest in the mortgage, note or obligation. How can MERS assign something it disclaims? MERS internet site and promotional literature all say the same thing --- use us to record your…[...]
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I was looking at an assignment signed by Margaret Dalton, "Vice President", Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc (MERS) "as nominee" for "Hoecomings" (sic) Financial Network, Inc. with an execution date of March 5, 2010 and a notarization date of the same date, notarized by D. Pakusic in Duval County, Florida, naming United Independent Title as Trustee under the Deed of…[...]
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GSAMP 8K INCLUDES SEVERAL SCHEDS AND SWAP INFO FORM 10-D ASSET-BACKED ISSUER GSAMP DISTRIBUTION REPORT for January 29 2008 FORM 10-D ASSET-BACKED ISSUER DISTRIBUTION REPORT for January 29 2008 SEC INDEX OF FILING GSAMP Wells Fargo-Thornburg reconstituted Pooling and Service Agreement Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Custodian has made no determination and makes no representations as to whether…[...]
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harpster US BAnk Tossed Out for Failure to Respond to Discovery and Fraud Upon the Court Plaintiff has failed to produce answers to the Interrogatories for a period of 26 months, between the time the Interrogatories and the Request for Production were served on January 8, 2008 and the date of the hearing on the Motion to Compel took place…[...]
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WHAT NOT TO DO IN PLEADING AND MOTION PRACTICE
Apr 7, 2010
REGISTER NOW FOR DISCOVERY AND MOTION PRACTICE WORKSHOP (2006) Here is a case that should not have been filed (entire text of opinion below) and was argued improperly. The homeowners clearly lost because they put their eggs in the wrong basket. Nonetheless, the opinion is a pretty good compilation of the various statutes, rules and regulations affecting mortgages and their…[...]
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The case follows on the dismissal of numerous foreclosure cases in which judges across the U.S. have found that the materials banks had submitted to support their claims were wrong. Faulty bank paperwork has been an issue in foreclosure proceedings since the housing crisis took hold a few years ago. It is often difficult to pin down who the real…[...]
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