To start the program, Treasury will ask banks, like Citigroup or JPMorgan Chase, to identify pools of residential and commercial real estate loans that they will be willing to sell through an auction. Private investors will bid against each other, setting a market price. No bank will be required to participate. Editor’s Note: it’s starting. […]

Tags: Citigroup, EDMUND L. ANDREWS, ERIC DASH, F.D.I.C., GRAHAM BOWLEY, JPMorgan Chase, mortgage modification, New York Times, principal reduction, related assets, Toxic Asset Plan, Treasury Department, troubled mortgages
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Editor’s Note: Principal reduction can be achieved in more ways than one. Here Non-profit Lenders see the clear opportunity to buy mortgages from dubious sources and then enter into new mortgages with the homeowner thus preventing eviction and restoring the homeowner to non-distress status. The problem here is that title is not clear and eventually […]

Tags: clear title, distressed homeowners, JOHN LELAND, modification, mortgage modification, Non-profit lenders, Ny Times, Post-foreclosure relief, principal reduction, quiet title, title problems
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“Reducing the loan’s principal balance is more valuable because it lowers monthly payments and restores equity. Various studies show that having equity also reduces the likelihood of redefault on a modified loan. It’s not just the moral thing to do. It also would help avoid the spillover effects of the next expected round of defaults. […]

Tags: creditor, lender, mortgage modification, nominee, principal reduction, servicer
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Editor’s Comment: Any lawyer who does not think that issues relating to foreclosure will not dominate his or her practice of law is in a state of denial and delusion. The 16% drop in new home-sale contracts (see article below) means a similar or worse drop in sales over the next 30-60 days. As we […]

Tags: ARIZONA, creditors, deficiency, FICO, home values, homeowner, inflated mortgages, lenders, mortgage modification, National Assocation of Realtors, principal reduction, short sales
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NOW AVAILABLE on KINDLE/AMAZON The Emperor\’s New Clothes: THOSE FORECLOSURES ARE NOT REAL FOLKS, GET IT? 1-in-10-u-s-mortgage-delinquencies-reach-a-record-high-going-up The Emperor is still strutting around as though he was fully clothed in the best silk, color and design. Wall Street is still the darling of government and a whole lot of other people, even if it was […]

Tags: AIG, bankruptcy, credit default swaps, emperor's new clothes, foreclosures, investors, lending, mortgage modification, mortgage pools, mortgages, settlement, short sales, source of funding, taxation, Wall Street
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The lenders are out in force trying to get you to sign something new. Most of the offers accomplish only two things: (1) ratification of a loan that was unenforceable and (2) a virtual guarntee that you will end up with worse problem than when you started in as little as 3 months; QUESTION: I […]

Tags: borrowers, disclosure, foreclosure defense, foreclosure offense, fraud, Lender Liability, mortgage modification, predatory lending, rescission, RESPA, RICO, securitization, TILA, TILA audit
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For the most part they are operating either illegally or unethically but there are an increasing number of firms that are playing by the rules and actually helping their clients. beware-of-credit-repair-firms-but-dont-throw-the-baby-out-with-the-bathwater DISCLOSURE: I must disclose both an agenda and an interest here. Having been disappointed by the results or conduct of many supposed “audit” or […]

Tags: audit, CREDIT REPAIR, evaluation, mortgage modification, tile
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CLINTON — MCCAIN FORECLOSURE FREEZE GETS COLD SHOULDER BUT SOUNDS GOOD Well here is a version (SEE ARTICLE BELOW) of what we have been pushing for months —- changing the terms of the mortgages so that the homeowner can stay in the house and the mortgage can be modified, sold or recast for capital accounting. […]

Tags: Clinton, Eviction, foreclosure, foreclosure freeze, McCain, mortgage freeze, mortgage modification, sound bites
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