Editor’s Note: In this article you have the nub of the problem for the investors, for the foreclosers, for the pretender lenders. What did the taxpayer actually pay for and what did they get for it? And if the money all went to pay off credit default swaps at 100 cents on the dollar then […]

Tags: AIG, audit, borrower, disclosure, foreclosure defense, foreclosure offense, fraud, Geitner, Lender Liability, mortgage meltdown, NY Fed, securitization
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MANY THANKS TO DAN EDSTROM Dan has put together a list which frankly I would like him to expand. Following the money means determining the party to whom you MIGHT owe money. It certainly isn’t the pretender lender and if you can fill in the blanks on this list you will be able to show […]

Tags: accounting, audit, borrower, disclosure, Eviction, foreclosure, foreclosure defense, foreclosure offense, forensic review, fraud, lender, Lender Liability, mortgage note, securitization, servicer, servicing agent, TILA audit
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Appraisal negligence and/or fraud is overlooked by many. Appraisers are usually licensed and insured. Filing a complaint with the licensing board as well as sending a demand letter to them to forward to their carrier could produce some substantial results. And remember that the originating “LENDER” supposedly has a committee or person verifying the appraisal […]

Tags: appraisal fraud, appraisals, appraiser's insurance, borrower, disclosure, foreclosure defense, foreclosure offense, fraud, Lender Liability, predatory lending, securitization
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By Greg Gordon, McClatchy Newspapers Greg Gordon, Mcclatchy Newspapers Mon Nov 2, 6:00 am ET SAN JOSE, Calif. — When California wildfires ruined their jewelry business, Tony Becker and his wife fell months behind on their mortgage payments and experienced firsthand the perils of subprime mortgages. The couple wound up in a desperate, six-year fight […]

Tags: bailout, borrower, disclosure, Federal reserve, foreclosure defense, foreclosure offense, Goldman Sachs, Lender Liability, mortgage meltdown, predatory lending, quiet title, securitization
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Sometime back in the early Spring and Summer of this year, I had a series of meetings with Arizona officials from the legislative and executive branch right up to the top, an Alabama Class Action firm of some repute, and telephone conversations with the U.S. Attorney, and several other class action attorneys researching “relater” and […]

Tags: bailout, borrower, disclosure, foreclosure defense, foreclosure offense, fraud, inflation, Lender Liability, lost note, mortgage meltdown, quiet title, rescission, securitization
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We end up listening to information, not evidence, from lawyers who are not sworn in as witnesses, as to matters that are totally outside their scope of knowledge. And then we end up arguing over giving title to a party who admittedly doesn’t have one dime committed to the transaction and who stands to lose […]

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if you peal away the apparent differences you find that there is an inherent joinder of interest investors and borrowers: both were deceived and both lost nearly everything they had by purchasing a financial product that was misrepresented — artificially inflated as to quality and value. And both were subject to the same MO — […]

Tags: borrower, countrywide, disclosure, foreclosure defense, foreclosure offense, fraud, inflation, JP Morgan, Lender Liability, predatory lending, securitization, trustee
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LIVINGLIES NOW AVAILABLE ON AMAZON KINDLE! SIGN UP FOR CLEARWATER, FLORIDA SEMINAR NOW If you want a summary of about 75% of what we cover at the seminar in Clearwater, Florida on November 1-2, just read this article. I’ll explain how we got to this point, the legal points to be raised and how to […]

Tags: audit, borrower, disclosure, Eviction, foreclosure defense, foreclosure offense, foreclosures, fraud, Lender Liability, Mortgage, securitization, trustee
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LIVINGLIES NOW AVAILABLE ON AMAZON KINDLE! SIGN UP FOR CLEARWATER, FLORIDA SEMINAR NOW So called “auditors” will miss the fact that there are two yield spread premiums that were not disclosed to either the homeowner or the investor. Failure to account for the movement of money through the securitization chain and failure to account for […]

Tags: audit, bankruptcy, borrower, disclosure, Eviction, foreclosure defense, foreclosure offense, fraud, Lender Liability, mortgage meltdown, predatory lending, rescission, securitization, TILA audit, trustee
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Wall Street was not responding to legitimate consumer demand, it was creating an artificial demand simply to create mortgage product to feed its securitization machine and generate big fees for itself. Comment from Reader: “MERS and the Pretender Lenders are seeking the courts to credit them with a touchdown despite the obvious fact that they […]

Tags: bailout, borrower, disclosure, foreclosure defense, foreclosure offense, fraud, housing, inflation, Lender Liability, mortgage meltdown, predatory lending, securitization
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