Archives by Tag ' predatory lending '
Sep 23, 2009

Here it is. On August 28, 2009 the Supreme Court of the State of Kansas rendered an opinion based calmly on existing law and relentlessly applying it to the chagrin of all participants in the securitization scheme. This decision is being examined, cited, analyzed and applied all over the country. MERS was the appellant seeking […]

Sep 23, 2009

Matt Taibbi in Huffington Post: Waking up to discover the mortgage market was a giant criminal enterprise A landmark ruling in a recent Kansas Supreme Court case may have given millions of distressed homeowners the legal wedge they need to avoid foreclosure. In Landmark National Bank v. Kesler, 2009 Kan. LEXIS 834, the Kansas Supreme […]

Sep 22, 2009

It appears I need to weigh in here. My objective was to let the “free market” operate and have people offer various services that would assist homeowners in fighting or challenging their lenders. What we have instead is some service providers performing some of the work needed in a forensic review and many of these […]

Sep 21, 2009

The Reno Class Action attorneys and others, including Elizabeth Warren, Chairwomen of the Congressional Oversight Committee, want to know where this money went, whether it satisfied obligations, and whether the obligations satisfied inure to the benefit of homeowners who purchased loan products from a Ponzi securitization scheme or otherwise. $13 trillion in mortgages were issued […]

Sep 20, 2009

People have been asking about class actions. With a little bit of help at www.classadvocate.com I have come up with the following list. The one to watch is in Reno Nevada filed by Hager and Hearne. It covers Arizona, Nevada, and California. It has not been certified yet as a class action. I am involved […]

Sep 17, 2009

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 […]

Sep 9, 2009

Here is PART of the next wave of “defaults” that will ruin lives and fill the pockets of the Wall Street bankers and intermediaries who are now “servicing” and foreclosing on loans that have already earned extremely high profits, far exceeding the funded amount of the loan. My opinion is that there will be three […]

Sep 6, 2009

Makes for very good reading. Shows that the advent of low-doc and non-doc loans were, as epected, sure to result in higher delinquencies. As we have pointed out before here, that was the point — to get loans that were sure to go into default. That was the only way they collect the “insurance” (credit […]

Sep 6, 2009

Editor’s Note: Here is another sore point in the mortgage meltdown: Developers were in on it up to their necks. One of the ways the appraisals were skewed was to use the developer’s asking price, which at times was rising by as much as 10% per month, giving the appearance of a rapidly advancing market. […]

Sep 4, 2009

Here is a good article from NYT but once again they are describing the news instead of reporting it. No investigation. Why do you think that servicers et al are not REALLY interested in modifying your mortgage? Why do you think they want you to believe that you are “in process” for mortgage modification when […]