Archives by Tag ' appraisal fraud '
May 24, 2010

I’m told by some industry insiders that you can buy a piece of our loan for pennies on the dollar, much the same as NPR did when they wanted to track the money and documents through the securitization structure. That’s a good goal because it will give you “inside information” on what the pretender lenders […]

May 11, 2010

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 […]

May 10, 2010

Editors Note: If anything shows the extent of appraisal fraud, it is the sheer number of homes that are under water. These figures while high, report only a fraction of the actual number of homes because of the way they are computed. If you take the asking price, reduce it by at least 4% (which […]

May 10, 2010

Editor’s Note: Hard to say which way this will go, but it SHOULD go negative for Moody’s, Fitch and Standard and Poor’s. This was appraisal fraud at the OTHER end of the lending chain. Investors were misled as to the value of the security not only because the home appraisals were inflated, and not only […]

May 9, 2010

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 […]

May 7, 2010

Editor’s Comment: Home builders made out like bandits as they were complicit in the rampant appraisal fraud that served as the keystone of the mortgage meltdown. Both the homes that were sold and the securities that were sold to fund the mortgages were inflated in the same way. But on the homeowner side there was […]

Mar 29, 2010

Editor’s Note: The significance of this announcement is that the bondholders, who were insured directly by AMBAC (as opposed to the investment bankers who bought “bets” like credit default swaps) are receiving 25 cents on every dollar they funded as creditors for the funding of loan to homeowners (debtors/ borrowers). This supports and corroborates two […]

Mar 18, 2010

“(T)he differences between the values ascribed to these properties and the prices at which the properties were sold in foreclosure are significantly greater than the declines in house prices in the same geographical areas over the same periods,” Editor’s Comment: BINGO! Use this complaint for both discovery and as a pleading guide. Send me a […]

Feb 5, 2010

Rizk was sentenced by United States District Judge Dean D. Pregerson, who warned that other professional real estate appraisers should know that if they inflate appraisals and lie about the value of homes, “there is an overwhelming likelihood that they will be caught and go to prison.“ Lila Rizk, 43, Rancho Santa Margarita, California, a former state-licensed […]

Jan 17, 2010

OK I’m upping the ante here with some techno-speak. But I’ll try to make it as simple as possible. YIELD is the percentage or dollar return on investment. For example, if you buy a bond for $1,000 and the interest rate is 5%, the yield is 5%. You are expecting to receive $50 per year […]