YOU DON’T NEED TO BE DELINQUENT TO SETTLE OR MODIFY. It might just be a good time to pick up the phone right now and call the servicer, trustee, or whoever is saying they have your loan (even though they don’t) and make a deal. Think about it first. Don’t be too generous to them […]

Tags: "modification" agreement, BofA, Complaint to Quiet Title, David Streitfeld, delinquent, friendly quiet title action, LAWYER, modification, Mortgage, Obama, quiet title, servicer, trustee
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With the Obama administration and private lenders actively considering mortgage-principal-reduction programs to help financially distressed homeowners, the Internal Revenue Service has issued an advisory to taxpayers who receive — or seek to receive — such assistance if it’s offered. Editor’s Note: The only thing I would add to this, for the moment, is that any […]

Tags: cancellations, damages, distressed homeowners, forgiveness of debt, Form 1099-C, Form 982, income tax, IRS, Obama, Ocwen, principal reduction, principal residence, real estate taxes, Ron Faris, subprime loans
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Editor’s Note: It seems to me that this concedes the battle to Wall Street. It encourages homeowners to take the loss that at the very least should be shared with ALL the players in the securitization scheme and creates more problems in housing and social services. Excerpt from NYT – do not buy into this […]

Tags: borrowers, cash for keys, David Streitfeld, lenders, New York Times, Obama
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Editor’s Comment: Finally! The president has now played out the Geithner-Summers scenario and seen the results — a large middle finger raised in the air from an arrogant bunch of people who are tone deaf to the needs of the nation and the world. This decision brings us into line with the rest of the […]

Tags: bailout, Bank of England, consumer protection, financial regulation, foreclosure defense, foreclosure offense, Geithner, Glass-Steagall, Jackie clames, Louis Uchitelle, mortgage meltdown, Obama, principal reduction, proprietary cuurency, securitization, Summers, Volcker
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It is difficult to imagine anything more obvious than splitting the risk taking core model of Wall Street from the risk averse core model of banking. The dilution of Glass-Steagel over the years and its eventual repeal is exactly how we got into this mess. Coupling that with deregulation and non-transparency created a context in […]

Tags: borrower, credit crisis, depression, disclosure, foreclosure defense, fraud, housing, inflation, lender, Lender Liability, mortgage meltdown, Obama, securitization
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Editor’s Note: It’s hard to imagine that we could have been any more scared than we were a year ago when it looked like we were going over a cliff. And yet we wasted the crisis and continue business as usual despite dire warnings from Simon Johnson (see article below) who has the prospective of […]

Tags: bailout, disclosure, Federal reserve, fraud, Lender Liability, mortgage meltdown, Obama, securitization, trustee
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And when that rakes hits them in the head, it will hopefully start a domino effect with the rest of the pretender lenders. OH Sup Ct – Wells Fargo Appeal WF has decided to go for the brass ring by bringing an appeal from a case they lost. What they are saying to the Ohio […]

Tags: borrower, disclosure, foreclosure defense, foreclosure offense, fraud, Lender Liability, mortgage meltdown, Obama, predatory lending, rescission, securitization, trustee, Wells Fargo
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Obama is of course correct in his outrage. Taking hundreds of billions of dollars from the taxpayers to cover the appearances of catastrophic losses and then paying bonuses for good management is over the top by any standards. But neither he nor the media is correct in assuming that that the bonuses were not in […]

Tags: bailout, borrower, countrywide, disclosure, Federal reserve, foreclosure defense, foreclosure offense, fraud, housing, inflation, Lender Liability, Obama, predatory lending, rescission, RESPA, RICO, securitization, TILA, trustee
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Happy New Year! We have much to talk about this year as we push forward. By all accounts, the economy, the dollar, the foreclosures, the job situation etc are all getting worse by the minute. Even if Obama is a magician it will be 2 years before there is a glimmer of hope. The homeowner […]

Tags: bailout, borrower, credit crisis, Federal reserve, foreclosure defense, foreclosure offense, lender, Mortgage, Obama, predatory lending, quiet title
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CONVERSION FROM INDEX TO REALITY Obama’s call for “TRUTH” is a simplified statement that calls into question the manner in which information is collected, the way it is presented and the manner in which it is disseminated to the public.  Underlying this simple call for integrity is his assessment that information flow is fundamentally flawed […]

Tags: capital, index, information, labor, Obama, Rothbard, slave, Von Mises
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