Many Thanks to Max Gardner for this contribution: See  entire Case at US Bank v Ibanez Memo of Decision Denying US Bank Mts Oct 14 2009Misc 384283 and Misc 386755 See Neil’s Abstract: judge-long-principal-must-be-disclosed See Boston Globe Article: judge-long-massachusetts-foreclosure-decision-throws-securitization-intermediaries-into-chaos-reo-sales-stopped See what-do-these-case-decisions-mean US Bank v Ibanez. Memo of Decision Denying US BankMts. Oct.14.2009 Misc 384283 and […]

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“If courts are willing to say MERS doesn’t have any ownership interest in mortgage loans, that may eventually call into question the priority of liens recorded in MERS’s name, and there are millions and millions of them.” September 27, 2009 Fair Game The Mortgage Machine Backfires By GRETCHEN MORGENSON WITH the mortgage bust approaching Year […]

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1st Annotation of Landmark v. Kesler: IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF KANSAS No. 98,489 LANDMARK NATIONAL BANK, Plaintiff/Appellee, v. BOYD A. KESLER
Appellee/Cross-appellant
MILLENNIA MORTGAGE CORPORATION,
Defendant,
(MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION
SYSTEMS, INC. AND SOVEREIGN BANK),
Appellants/Cross-appellees,
and
DENNIS BRISTOW AND TONY WOYDZIAK,
Intervenors/Appellees. filed August 28, 2009 “The second mortgage lies at the core of this appeal. That mortgage document stated […]

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By Brad Keiser For those of you who have been to our seminars, (coming to Southern California next month) You have heard me ask about Hank Paulson and Ben Bernanke…”Are they stupid or were they lying when they said everything was OK through out all of 2007 and most of 2008?” You have seen and heard why Neil and I declare […]

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Massachusetts is a power of sale state (non-judicial, but there is plenty of securitized meat in here for everyone). Good stuff to quote from — with Banks making the arguments that we are promoting on this Blog. The issues include (a) notice (b) unmarketable title and unable to get title title insurance (c) void certificate […]

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DOJ Probing Mortgage Data Processing Firms By Peg Brickley Of DOW JONES DAILY BANKRUPTCY REVIEW The Department of Justice is conducting a nationwide probe of the company whose automated systems handle half the mortgages in the U.S., looking for evidence Lender Processing Services Inc. (LPS) has “improperly directed” the actions of lawyers in bankruptcy court. […]

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BOTTOM LINE: Use of a nominee causes an irreconcilable cloud on title entitling the homeowner to recovery on his homeowner title insurance policy. If homeowners purchased title insurance, they were at the same time in the same closing agreeing that the names of MERS and Countrywide would be used, for example, but that off-record activity […]

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countrywide-061308 “Fraud on the Market” at the core of the mortgage meltdown is hotly contested: millowitzvcitigrioup1-30-07

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  mers-membership milestoneplus Sample Response Record: Corporate Name: West Coast Servicing, Inc. Address: 17011 Beach Blvd., #300 City,State,Zip: Huntington Beach, CA 92647 Toll Free Number: (866) 574-2001 Direct Number: (714) 596-6333 Fax Number: (714) 596-6333 Primary Contact: Cameron Clayton Website: http://www.wcrsi.com Member Org ID: 1006937 Lines Of Business: Originator, Servicer, Subservicer, Investor, Document Custodian eRegistry […]

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See also provident-bank-v-silverman-super-duper-explanation-of-ucc-transferres-holders-and-holders-in-due-course-and-perfecting-title-to-note-or-mortgage  KISS – Keep It Simple Stupid Totaled Cars and Totaled Mortgages – Credit Default Swaps – CDS – 101 By Brad Keiser OK this article is for those newer readers and tenured Livinglies devotees as well as those who have attended Al Pacino’s(oops I mean Neil Garfield’s ) workshops and are not […]

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