Three years ago, when this derivative housing mess caught my attention, the reason I started looking into it was that the basic facts didn’t make any sense. Housing prices had been going up at a rate of as much as 20% in one month. Coming from Wall Street with an M.B.A. and having studied, written […]

Tags: ARIZONA, CALIFORNIA, credit default swaps, derivative housing mess, federal bailouts, housing prices, inflating the appraisals, unoccupied dwellings, unoccupied neighborhoods, Wall Street
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REGISTER NOW FOR DISCOVERY AND MOTION PRACTICE WORKSHOP MAY 23-24 PRINCIPAL REDUCTION IS A RIGHT NOT A GIFT. IF THE OBLIGATION HAS BEEN PAID BY THIRD PARTIES, THEN THE OBLIGATION HAS ALREADY BEEN REDUCED. THE ONLY FUNCTION REMAINING IS TO DO THE ACCOUNTING. ” There should be no doubt in your mind now that virtually […]

Tags: accounting, allocation of payments, and advances, Bank of America, CALIFORNIA, creditor, delinquency status, discovery, foreclosure suit, foreclosures, Goldman Sachs, Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro, INVESTORS TAKE NOTE, Notice of Default, Notice of Sale, Obligation, payments, pool, principal reduction, profits, sale to investors, SEC, SPV pools, Steve Berman, TARP, TARP regulations, third party payments, undisclosed fees
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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 […]

Tags: 2010, 2112 Business Center Dr., 92612, access procedure, as evidence of the underlying obligation, assignments, authority to sign, CALIFORNIA, California Statutes, chain of title, County of Los Angeles, creditor, D. Pakusic, Dalton, data entry and retrieval system, DEBTOR, DEED OF TRUST, DOT, Duval County, Florida, Florida Statutes, HERS, HFN, identity of the creditor, Inc., Irvine, IT platform, JP Morgan Chase Bank National Association, Malcolm-Cisneros, March 5, Margaret Dalton, MERS, MERS disclaiming, MERSCORP, Mortgage Electronic registration Systems, necessary parties, nominee, notarization, note, oath administered is invalid, Obligation, origination of the loan, ownership of the note, Public records, Recording laws, security instrument, signature and stamp, source of funds, Trustor, United Independent Title, unknown sources of funds, vice-president
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without raising taxes one cent, many states could recover much or all of their deficit and perhaps some states could be looking at a surplus. The money is sitting on Wall Street waiting to be claimed through existing tax laws, regulatory fees, and even damage claims much like the Tobacco litigation. Editor’s Note: Bob Herbert […]

Tags: Andre Cherney, ARIZONA, Bob Herbert, CALIFORNIA, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Children's Health Insurance Program, CHIP, Chris Chistie, Dean Martin, Florida, income tax, infrastructure, Jan Brewer, Job Shure, New Jersey, Ny Times, Recording fees, State Budget Deficits, taxes, Treasurer, Wall Street
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In the last five years, the number of foreclosure lawsuits filed in federal court in California has ballooned — like an exploding adjustable-rate mortgage — from only 29 statewide in 2005 to nearly 1,400 last year. Increasing numbers of Californians are suing lenders to avoid foreclosures By Tracey Kaplan and Maria J. Ávila López, www.mercurynews.com […]

Tags: CALIFORNIA, foreclosure offense, foreclosures, pretender lenders
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How do we verify that the signatures purported to be those of the notorious fraudulent ”MERS’ employee, Marti Noreiga, is actually her signature? My docs with her signature do match others I’ve found but I have yet to verify that those are her valid signature. [Yep, Marti we know you REALLY work at LITTON/CBASS.] Also, […]

Tags: 12323 W. Village Dr. Apt A, 2011, CALIFORNIA, commission expiration date of March28, HERS, Houston TX 77039, Invalid Notarization, LITTON/CBASS, M. Bell, Marti Noreiga, Melissa Bell, MERS, Quality Loan Servicing, Texas, trust, trustee
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Submitted was a form reciting the legal description of the property and citing California Civil Code Title 5, Sections 880.340 and 800.350. As in other documents that can be prepared for homeowners it is only as good as the willingness of the county recorder’s office to accept and record it. And it doesn’t do much […]

Tags: CALIFORNIA, Notice of intent to preserve interest, qualified written request, Title 5
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A provocative paper by Brent White, a law professor at the University of Arizona, makes the case that borrowers are actually suffering from a “norm asymmetry.” In other words, they think they are obligated to repay their loans even if it is not in their financial interest to do so, while their lenders are free […]

Tags: $800 fee, ARIZONA, Booth School of Business, CALIFORNIA, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Eric Posner, fee for non-recourse option, Lease, Luigi Zingales, mortgage default, New York Times, non-recorse, Option, pool, recording, Richard Thaler, strategic defaults, sublease, Susan Woordward, swap, University of Chicago, walking away
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Option ARMs Come Back into Center Stage: 350,000 Active Option ARMs with over 200,000 in California. 78 Percent of Option ARMs have yet to hit Recast Dates. Option ARMs are the gift that keeps on giving this holiday season.  As it turns out, these pesky toxic mortgages are still sitting waiting to hit recast periods.  […]

Tags: ALT-A, CALIFORNIA, HAMP, Inland Empire, Long beach, Los Angeles, Option, Option ARM, Phoenix, reset, shadow inventory, toxic mortgages, underwater
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Several comments have been posted in addition to other information about MERS which is bringing the entire MERS issue over the brink of the absurd. Who, what where is MERS? Write in with your MERS stories. Take note that we are dealing with at least four entities that I am now aware of —MERS, MERSCORP, […]

Tags: CALIFORNIA, Florida, Inc., MERS, MERSCORP, Minnesota, Mortgage Electronic registration Systems, Ohio
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