TURNING A DEFENSE INTO AN AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSE FOR SET OFF AND A CLAIM OR COUNTERCLAIM FOR DAMAGES AND ATTORNEY FEES So the question is how would you allocate third party payments and what difference will that make to a Judge hearing the case. ASSUMPTION: XYZ Investment Banking Holding company has received a total of $50 […]

Tags: Allocation of Third Party Payments, appraisal fraud, default, FICO, HERS, identity theft, Mortgage, note mortgage, Obligation, payments, principal, securities fraud
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Eltman, Eltman & Cooper was one of 35 law firms sued last July by the state, which claimed that they had improperly obtained more than 100,000 judgments in consumer-debt cases. Editor’s notes: The dubious “enforcement” of mortgages, notes and “obligations (that have been paid many times over through credit enhancement) is both mirrored and amplified […]

Tags: debt, Debt Collectors, Eltman, Eltman & Cooper, judges, New York, Obligation, Philip S. Straniere, usury, WILLIAM GLABERSON
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Practically all the questions I get relate to how to prove the case that the loan was securitized. This is the wrong question. While it is good to have as much information about the pool a loan MIGHT BE INCLUDED, that doesn’t really answer the real question. The real question is what is the identity […]

Tags: AFFIRMATIVE RELIEF, amortization, assignment, assumption, authenticity of the assignment, BURDEN OF PROOF, credit default swaps, credit enhancement, cutoff date, DEED OF TRUST, discovery, full accounting of all payments, identity of the creditor, insurance, judicial economy, judicial proceeding, Mortgage, Motion Practice, non-judicial statutes, note, Obligation, offer AND an acceptance, owed on my obligation, payments from third parties, pooling and service agreement, prima facie case, pro se litigants, securitization, UNCONSTITUTIONAL
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There is a lot of conflicting opinions about this. My opinion is that the confusion arises not from the law, not from application of the law and not from what is written on the note or deed of Trust. If you look at the Bellistri Missouri case the issue is well settled. And the problem […]

Tags: Bellistri case, Bellistri v Ocwen Loan Servicing, beneficiary, borrower, Certainty, creditor, DEED OF TRUST, defect in title, DOT, enforceability, HERS, MERS, Moral Hazard, multiple parties, nominee, note, Obligation, Ocwen, Payee, quiet title suit, release and reconveyance, Restatement 3rd, SEPARATION OF DEED OF TRUST FROM NOTE, unmarketable
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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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Editor’s Note: Here is the problem. As I explained to a Judge last week, if Aunt Alice pays off my obligation then the fact that someone still has the note is irrelevant. The note is unenforceable and should be returned as paid. That is because the note is EVIDENCE of the obligation, it isn’t THE […]

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Challenge everything, assume nothing. The chances are that through this shadow banking system, your loan was paid in whole or in part through third party insurers, counterparties, federal bailout etc. Without an accounting from the CREDITOR, there is no basis for claiming a default. What the other side is doing is centering in on the […]

Tags: accounting, creditor, DEBTOR, discovery, enforcement of obligation, Lehman, motino practice, Obligation, unsecured obligationunsecured note
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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 […]

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REGISTER NOW FOR DISCOVERY AND MOTION PRACTICE WORKSHOP (2006) Here is a case that should not have been filed (entire text of opinion below) and was argued improperly. The homeowners clearly lost because they put their eggs in the wrong basket. Nonetheless, the opinion is a pretty good compilation of the various statutes, rules and […]

Tags: 1039 (10th Cir. 2006), 1110 (10th Cir. 1991), 1112 (10th Cir. 1991);, 12 C.F.R. § 226.1(a), 12 C.F.R. § 226.23(a)(3, 1244 (10th Cir. 2006)., 15 U.S.C. § 1635(b), 1565 (10th Cir. 1991)., 2005 WL 106792 at *1-*3 (N. D. Cal., 2005)., 207 F.3d 458, 438 F.3d 1036, 442 F.3d 1239, 462 (8th Cir. 2000), 935 F.2d 1106, 948 F.2d 1562, Affidavit of Fraudulent Recording of Discharge of Mortgage, Akin & Robb, AMERICAN MORTGAGE SPECIALISTS, CAROL R. ROSEN, certificate, CIV-06-0427 JH/LAM., Cleveland, Colonial Savings, Dickason, Discharge of Mortgage, discovery, EQUIFIRST CORP, Fed R. Civ. P. 12(b)(6), Fed. R. Civ. P. 10(c)., Frances Kenny Family Trust v. World Sav. Bank FSB, Hall v. Bellmon, Hearing, HERS, Homecomings Financial, HUD 1/Settlement Statement, Inc., Inc. v. Am. Cas. Co. of Reading, Jan. 19, JUDITH HERRERA, Karla Poe, Kimberly Smith Rivera, McGlinchey Staford, merits, Miller v. Glanz, Moore v. Guthrie, MOTION TO DISMISS, N.M.S.A. §§ 57-12-1, New Mexico, New Mexico Unfair Practices Act, Obligation, Oh, Ownership interest, P.A., P.C., PA, Park Univ. Enter., Pleading, PLLC, Prospectus, Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act, Regulation Z, RESPA, Rhodes & Salmon, Rodey, Sloan, TILA, trustee, Truth in Lending Act, U.S. Bank National Association, United States v. Any & All Radio Station Transmission Equip., William C. Salmon
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