NY Times: Morgenson — Guess What Got Lost in the Loan Pool?

FAIR GAME Guess What Got Lost in the Loan Pool? By GRETCHEN MORGENSON Published: February 28, 2009 WE are all learning, to our deep distress, how the perpetual pursuit of profits drove so many of the bad decisions that financial institutions made during the mortgage mania. But while investors tally the losses that were generated [...]

A Reality Check on Mortgage Modification: NY Times Gretchen Morgenson

Unfortunately, the bill would not only pay institutions handsomely for each modification they do — at $1,000 each, a bounty that could reach $10 billion — but it would also create opportunities for mortgage servicers to profit at the expense of investors who own the loans. Gretchen Morgenson deserves Kudos for her attempts to disclose [...]

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NY Times Exposes MERS

April 24, 2009 Tracking Loans Through a Firm That Holds Millions By MIKE McINTIRE Judge Walt Logan had seen enough. As a county judge in Florida, he had 28 cases pending in which an entity called MERS wanted to foreclose on homeowners even though it had never lent them any money. MERS, a tiny data-management [...]

Mortgage Backed Security Holders Avoid Direct Confrontation with Borrowers

You have to read between the lines. This getting really interesting. Investors are the ONLY people with a potential claim to being a holder in due course and who could then seek to enforce the note, mortgage or obligation. As predicted on these pages, they will not and have not filed any legal actions against [...]

Dozens of Cases Rolling in from Bankruptcy and Civil Courts Reversing Foreclosures, Evictions

The whole thing is unraveling just we predicted 18 months ago. The largest transfer of wealth in world history is starting. The question is who is going to be behind the curve and who is going to be ahead of it? We are getting daily reports of many cases in which cases that have gone [...]

Wells Fargo, Rels Conspired to Inflate Home Appraisals

From Jose Semidey: [Editor's Note: This is a major item that affects the core of both claims and defenses against the lenders. Any party seeking to foreclose is "admitting" that they are the holder in due course on the note or that they are the authorized agent for the HDC. Inflated appraisals greatly affect the [...]

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Judges are starting to “Get It”

What keeps us going here? Spending days interacting directly and indirectly with homeowners who are under such duress, in danger of losing so much, honestly I must confess it weighs on Neil and I some days. We understand it is not just a “piece of property” or an “asset,” but that the “home” is a [...]

The elephant in the living room: What is the Federal Government Buying?

The article below by Andrew Rosenfield is an excellent summary of the problems and contradictions facing the Obama administration. But it misses the same point that everyone has failed to ask about. If the intent was to sell the loans to investors and Wall Street took money for that sale, then we must assume that [...]

NY Times: Why Creditors Should Suffer, Too

Editor’s Note: This article is on the right track. Using the guidelines of resolution trust, a fair and equitable distribution of risk and loss could be achieved while at the same time demonstrating to the world that the United States accepts the responsibility for what our “masters of the universe” on Wall Street and Main [...]

Reality Check: Holder in Due Course Doctrine is not some fancy trick to get out of paying

Too many people are looking for an easy way out and reporting that Judge’s don’t like their arguments because they are going into court saying they don’t owe the money and there is no obligation. This argument starts you off on the wrong foot and heads for disaster. The better approach is to start off [...]

Get those Ledger Entries from everyone — they tell a long story

From M Solimon: {Editor’s Note: Lots more here than meets the eye. You want to know what ledger entries were made by each entity and by what individuals and under whose supervision or instructions the entry was made. Besides being able to trace the holder in due course you will probably eliminate most of their [...]