Appraisal fraud creates both civil and criminal liability. And even now, many licensed appraisers remain deeply uncomfortable with the current system of artificially inflated valuations. To keep the machine running, investment banks — acting through their principal agents, Black Knight and CoreLogic — have turned to automation. Property valuations are now generated by algorithms, not […]

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CLICK HERE FOR CONSULTATION WITH NEIL “We can account for small to reasonable increases in values,” Mr. McKinnon said. “We cannot account for $20,000 jumps in a month.” Editor’s Comment: An amazing quote from someone who obviously is NOW stressing the fundamental elements of an appraisal, especially where there is a loan involved. During the […]

Tags: Appraisal, appraisal fraud, loan to value, LTV, National Association of realtors
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5 years ago it was obvious to anyone with the facts that the entire system or mortgage origination and mortgage foreclosures had been turned on it’s head, starting with one huge lie: that the value of the property exceeded the amount of the loan. It was in 2005 when 8,000 appraisers warned congress that their […]

Tags: Appraisal, fair market value, fraud, principal correction, principal reduction
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MOST POPULAR ARTICLES CLICK HERE TO GET COMBO TITLE AND SECURITIZATION REPORT Use this form under the heading “Best Practices” — Excellent in every respect. Hats off to Ivan Young of the Young Law Group in Bohemia, New York. I say the Defendants have a collective exposure of several million dollars. If I can find […]

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GET COMBO TITLE AND SECURITIZATION ANALYSIS – CLICK HERE EDITOR’S COMMENT: Here is our problem writ large. The commentary written by Shedlock (see below) is basically on the side of punishing the banks for their wrongdoing, but not giving any relief to borrowers. The logic behind the position is that anyone who does not pay […]

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COMBO Title and Securitization Search, Report, Documents, Analysis & Commentary “While Wall Street has us all thinking that this is so complicated that it can never be unraveled, the reverse is true. If the homeowner was the victim of a crime or misfeasance or malfeasance, then the homeowner has every right to restitution and redress […]

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Editor’s note: I think the standards used here apply to ALL private actions for appraisal fraud. With appraisal fraud proven, virtually all lending statutes are proven to have been violated. Appraisal fraud lies at the root of the mortgage mess with its sister, ratings fraud. Both are appraisals and both are ratings. Both were designed […]

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GET LOAN SPECIFIC RECORDS PROPERTY SEARCH AND SECURITIZATION SUMMARY FTC v Countrywide Home Loans Incand BAC Home Loans ServicingConsent Judgment Order 20100607 Editor’s Comment: This “tip of the iceberg”  is important for a number of reasons. You should be alerted to the fact that this was an industry-wide practice. The fees tacked on illegally during […]

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APPRAISAL FRAUD IS THE ACT OF GIVING A RATING OR VALUE TO A HOME THAT IS WRONG — AND THE APPRAISER KNOWS IT IS WRONG. This can’t be performed in a vacuum because there are so many players who are involved. They ALL must be complicit in the deceit leading to the homeowner signing on […]

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Editor’s Comment: Appraisal fraud, ratings fraud, misrepresentation, steering investors and borrowers in the wrong direction — all of these amount to the same thing: DECEIT. And as everyone knows, when someone is bilked out of money or value through deceit, they are entitled to made whole — as close as possible, and probably entitled to […]

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