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Jan 15, 2009

Foreclosures in U.S. Rose 81%, Topping 2.3 Million Last Year By Dan Levy Jan. 15 (Bloomberg) — U.S. foreclosure filings jumped 81 percent last year as falling house prices, tighter mortgage lending and the longest recession in a quarter century battered property owners, RealtyTrac Inc. said. More than 2.3 million properties got a default or […]

Jan 14, 2009

Atlantic Article Submitted by multiple readers, I read this as soon as my issue was delivered. It’s true. And to add insult to injury, the answer to the question on everyone’s mind: Where did the money go? $350 billion disappeared down a black hole. The banks and investment banks got the money under the presumption […]

Jan 9, 2009

loan_origination_mortgage_fraud_ffiec loan_origination_mortgage_fraud_prevention_response_nelson Red Flags • Critical loan processing activities, such as  verification of income, employment, or deposit, is delegated to brokers. • Delegated underwriting allowed for correspondents that are new or lack an established track record with the FI. • A growing number of loans is being repurchased due to misrepresentations by the FI under […]

Jan 8, 2009

LOOK CAREFULLY AT EXHIBITS CONTAINING MERS ADVERTISING TO LENDERS LOOKING TO TRANSFER NOTES AND MORTGAGES see mers-membership-information-reveals-index-to-securitization-and-investors-allegation-that-mers-is-authorized-or-even-nominal-beneficiary-is-false washington-state-buse-vs-first-american-title-greenpoint-rescomm-mers-amended-complaint-well-written-look-carefully-at-exhibits-containing-mers-advertising-to-lenders-looking-to-tra mers-explained-by-aurora-lawyers exhibits-motion-and-temp-restraining-order-granted From the attached amended complaint. That Deed of Trust (“DOT”) contained a false representation on its face when it represented that Defendant MERS was a beneficiary under the DOT. Paragraph (E) States that “MERS is […]

Jan 7, 2009

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 […]

Jan 4, 2009

Would You Pay $103,000 for This Arizona Fixer-Upper? That Was Ms. Halterman’s Mortgage on It; ‘Unfit for Human Occupancy,’ City Says By MICHAEL M. PHILLIPS AVONDALE, Ariz. — The little blue house rests on a few pieces of wood and concrete block. The exterior walls, ravaged by dry rot, bend to the touch. At some […]

Dec 28, 2008

1. It isn’t illegal or prejudicial to a plaintiff trustee’s case for it to have acquired rights or be assigned a mortgage AFTER a borrower is in default — but it DOES raise issues of fact that must be heard by the Court. Since the Mortgage went into default there are several possibilities: (a) under […]

Dec 26, 2008

The “lenders’ are holding nothing but worthless or at best questionable paper. As soon as you sign a modification you are validating a debt that you most likely don’t have anymore or at worst have substantial offsets against and you are validating a security instrument (mortgage) that was destroyed in the securitization process. Check with […]

Dec 25, 2008

All the resources cited herein are available on this blog Miami Florida Personal Bankruptcy Law Blog Chapter 7, 13, and 11 Florida Bankruptcy Law by Miami Florida Bankruptcy Lawyer Jordan E. Bublick Sunday, December 21, 2008 “Securitization Facilitated Predatory Lending” Professor Kenneth C. Kettering of the New York Law School recently reviewed the legal foundations […]

Dec 23, 2008

December 23, 2008 Irregularity Uncovered at IndyMac   By EDMUND L. ANDREWS   WASHINGTON — Two months before IndyMac Bancorp collapsed in July, at a cost of $8.9 billion to taxpayers, a top federal banking regulator allowed the bank to backdate a capital infusion and gloss over its deepening problems, the Treasury Department’s independent investigator […]