Tonight! How Foreclosure Defense Attorneys are Winning Cases: Case Study in Florida 6PM EDT 3PM PDT — with a West Coast Perspective

Oct 10, 2019

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Tonight we discuss the strategies and reasons for homeowners to win foreclosure cases.

Specifically we look at yet another case where a homeowner did win, hands down game over.

see https://livinglies.me/2019/10/09/patrick-giunta-esq-scores-another-homeowner-win-in-south-florida-v-us-bank-trustee-lsf9-master-participation-trust-william-paatalo-expert-testifies/

There is one simple fact about the statistics regarding the likelihood of success in contesting foreclosures. The statistics used by the banks and the courts and the media are all based upon all foreclosures 96% of which are completely uncontested. They are uncontested because homeowners don’t understand their rights and they don’t understand that they don’t deserve that treatment morally, ethically or legally.

When you break down the 4% (contested cases) you find that 60% of homeowners give up when they are presented with virtually ANY modification no matter how stupid and in signing that document they create more obstacles to contesting the foreclosure in the future.

These homeowners, usually unrepresented or poorly represented, don’t realize that by signing the modification document they have in fact created a new loan, stiffing the investors and creating revenue for the servicer and the investment bank that started the securitization scheme. The don’t realize because they have never been given the facts.

So that leaves 2.4% of all foreclosures. So far the “win” rate for the banks is 97.6%.

Of the remaining 2.4% about half settle with favorable results from the perspective of the homeowner. They are still stiffing the investors without knowing it and they are giving up or releasing a number of rights that could include damages for filing a false foreclosure claim.

As for stiffing the investors I’ll summarize by saying that in each foreclosure or modification or settlement the result is revenue distributed to the servicer, the Master Servicer (lead underwriting investment bank) and various other parties.

If it is foreclosure, the proceeds of sale to a third party don’t go to investors who put up the money but never got title to the debt, note or mortgage. Instead the proceeds are claimed as “servicer advances” or at the last minute when nobody is looking the mortgage loan schedule is amended such that the foreclosed loan is taken out and a new, possibly performing loan is put in. That’s when you see an assignment of the credit bid to a conduit for the investment bank.

Either way the entire proceeds come to the investment bank and affiliates as pure revenue.

The other half of the 2.4% go to trial. Of those only 50% are seriously contested, by aggressive discovery, objections at trial and good cross examinations. So the banks win 1.2% of those boosting their winning “statistics” from 97.6% to 98.8% — all due to improper defenses, procedures and mistakes plus a fair amount of court bias.

Of the remaining 1.2% that are seriously contested the homeowners win 65% of those cases. So that means the banks win another .42% bringing their total WIN statistics to 99.3% and the total WIN statistics for homeowners as either .7% if you just include the judgments for the homeowners or 1.9% if you include favorable settlements.

If you now re-read this post you will see that the figures could be vastly different if all foreclosures were seriously contested and that court bias would be bending the other way if the foreclosures were strongly contested. In plain language the homeowners could be winning at least 68% of foreclosure cases and the resulting softening of court bias could easily raise that to 95%.

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