Fannie and Freddie Platinum Sponsors with (MERS and LPS) of Upscale Event for Bankers

MOST POPULAR ARTICLES GET COMBO TITLE AND SECURITIZATION ANALYSIS – CLICK HERE UNDERLYING THEME: HOW TO GET THE SIGNATURE OF HOMEOWNER WITHOUT ALERTING ALL HOMEOWNERS THAT THEIR SIGNATURE IS NOW A VALUABLE COMMODITY AHC AND LIVINGLIES ANNOUNCE LAUNCH OF AMGAR EDITOR’S COMMENT: Are they really that tone deaf? It appears the answer is yes as [...]

Goldman Sachs Messages Show It Thrived as Economy Fell

Editor’s Note: Now the truth as reported here two years ago. There were no losses. They were making money hand over fist. And this article focuses only on a single topic — some of the credit default swaps — those that Goldman had bought in its own name, leaving out all the other swaps bought [...]

Magnetar Echoes Livinglies call for Alignment of Investors, Servicers and Borrowers

see Magnetar%20Mortage%20Recovery%20Backstop%20Whitepaper%20Jun09.pdf Magnetar Mortage Recovery Backstop Whitepaper Jun09 Two things jump out at me with this paper from June, 2009. First it is obvious that the “real money” investors are defined as those seeking low risk and willing to take lower yield. The fact that they are called “Real Money Investors” underscores my point about [...]

Foreclosure Prevention 1.1

Nobody ever thought that returning a lady’s purse to her after a purse snatcher ran away with it was a gift. So why is anyone contesting returning the purse to homeowners who had their lives snatched from them? The baby steps of the Obama administration are frustrating. Larry Summers, Tim Geithner and those who walk [...]

Regulation: Big Government or Big Business

“the banks should not be allowed to be larger than the government’s ability to regulate them” If you ask someone about big government, they will probably tell you they don’t want government meddling in their personal business. What they really mean is that they don’t want ANYONE meddling in their lives. In reality, that opened [...]

U.S. Starts Criminal Probe of Lender Processing Services Inc. Foreclosure-Data Provider

The case follows on the dismissal of numerous foreclosure cases in which judges across the U.S. have found that the materials banks had submitted to support their claims were wrong. Faulty bank paperwork has been an issue in foreclosure proceedings since the housing crisis took hold a few years ago. It is often difficult to [...]

Tax Apocalypse for States and Federal Government Can be Reversed: Show Me the Money!

SEE states-look-beyond-borders-to-collect-owed-taxes states-ignore-obvious-remedy-to-fiscal-meltdown tax-impact-of-principal-reduction accounting-for-damages-madoff-ruling-may-affect-homeowner-claims taxing-wall-street-down-to-size-litigation-guidelines taking-aim-at-bonuses-based-on-23-7-trillion-in-taxpayer-gifts payback-timemany-see-the-vat-option-as-a-cure-for-deficits As we have repeatedly stated on this blog, the trigger for the huge deficits was the housing nightmare conjured up for us by Wall Street. Banks made trillions of dollars in profits that were never taxed. The tax laws are already in place. Everyone is paying taxes, [...]

BAC assigned a note in 2010 that they sold in 2003

Editor’s Note: Recontrust appears to be wholly owned by Bank of America. This particular deal looks like a “reconstituted” mortgage backed security comprised of new securities which are “backed” by old mortgage backed securities which in turn are backed by a list of “loans” which may or may not exist, and which certainly have at [...]

Give me a little help here: Trusts, REMICs, and the Authority of the Trustee or Trustee’s Attorney to Represent

When U.S. Bank comes in as Trustee for the the holders of series xyz etc., the use of the words Trustee and series certificates give it an air of legitimacy. But this is probably just another bluff. Reading the indenture on the bond (mortgage backed security) and the prospectus, you will see that the “Trust” [...]

Those $18 billion in bonuses were earned from hidden profits: The Joke is on Us

Obama is of course correct in his outrage. Taking hundreds of billions of dollars from the taxpayers to cover the appearances of catastrophic losses and then paying bonuses for good management is over the top by any standards. But neither he nor the media is correct in assuming that that the bonuses were not in [...]

HAPPY NEW YEAR !!! (I THINK)

Happy New Year! We have much to talk about this year as we push forward. By all accounts, the economy, the dollar, the foreclosures, the job situation etc are all getting worse by the minute. Even if Obama is a magician it will be 2 years before there is a glimmer of hope. The homeowner [...]

Resources: Trade Periodicals and Research – Use of Professional Information Sources

Use of Professional Information Sources Bank Systems & Technology American Banker Community Banker Factiva Independent Banker Bank Technology News Banking Strategies Wall Street Journal/WSJ Online Law firm/consultant/association-provided newsletters ABA Banking Journal NewsEdge US Banker Lexis/Nexis Local associations publications Internally provided news feed Other; please specify — post on comments page

WORKSHOPS COMING UP 8 CA CLE & 9.5 FLA CLE CREDITS

PLEASE SUPPORT THIS SITE !!! donation-form-1108 Florida Bar Approves Garfield Continuum for 9.5 CLE Credits Lawyers Workshop Registration Form – November 2, 2009 Homeowners Workshop Registration Form – November 1, 2009 What Lawyers Are Saying About Neil Garfield\’s Seminars covered-in-the-garfield-continuum-workshops-you-can-look-this-stuff-up-in-wikopedia REQUIRED READING: appraisal-fraud-and-industry-standards-described-in-2003-official-white-paper-red-flags-described-in-detail-with-excellent-diagrams-explanations-and-descriptions-of-best-practices Work and Play in Sunny Clearwater Beach FL How to Save $$ while attending Garfield Event(s) Clearwater [...]

MORTGAGE MELTDOWN: LIBOR THREATENS CONFIDENCE —U.S. BANKS LYING TO THE WORLD

IF YOU ARE TAKING YOUR LENDER BANK TO COURT OR VICA VERSA, HERE IS MORE FUEL TO THROW ON THE FIRE — THEY EVEN LIED TO OTHER BANKS — INTENTIONALLY SO THEY WOULDN’T APPEAR DESPERATE FOR MONEY.  The Mysteries of Libor And Other Revelations…   THERE CAN BE NO DOUBT THAT THE FINANCIAL SYSTEM IS [...]

Foreclosure Defense: Ankle Biting from Lenders to Investment Bankers Benefits Borrowers

IT ALL COMES DOWN TO THIS: LENDERS DIDN’T CARE ABOUT THE QUALITY OF THE LOAN OR THE IMPACT ON BORROWERS OR INVESTORS (INCLUDING THEIR OWN SHAREHOLDERS). THEY WERE PREPARED TO FALSIFY ANYTHING AND USE ANY MISREPRESENTATION OR PRESSURE TACTIC THEY COULD TO GET THE LOAN SOLD AND THE BORROWER TO SIGN. THEY PRETENDED THEY HAD [...]

Mortgage Meltdown and Foreclosure Defense: Private Lending Might be a Resource for You

Besides all of the strategies we are collecting for you here, there are some monetary resources you could consider. Things like reverse mortgages are not likely to yield you anything if you are in trouble because you needs lots of equity to get into those. But there are private lenders and peer to peer lending [...]

Mortgage Meltdown Recovery: Economics, Waste, Imbalance, and Unbalanced Economists

ECONOMICS: How Economists downplay substitution on the supply side, and discount American Innovation, American Ingenuity and American Temerity. Bad policy from flawed measurements. Flawed Measurements from biased, agenda-based ideology. “The central problem confronting the new President is not the political issues of conflicting ideology nor the “choices” presented by well-intentioned economists; the real issue is [...]

Foreclosure Defense: Issues, Pleadings and Analysis

We are still in process of revising our manuscript for publication with all the forms we can think of. Here is a  summary of our findings thus far. Generally we have two types of jurisdictions — the non-judicial sale jurisdictions and the mortgage foreclosure jurisdictions. California, Arizona and Nevada are non-judicial sale jurisdictions as are [...]

Foreclosure Defense and Mortgage Meltdown: Worse than you think

Take a look at the article (link below) which highlights the essential issues. It’s a bit choppy in reading but it makes the points you should consider as you plan your strategy for dealing with life over the next 10 years. Despite assurances from the administration and those on Wall Street who are trying to [...]

Inflation: TILA-based Foreclosure Defense Key to Staunching the Bloodflow

Despite all efforts to conceal the pernicious effects of inflation and the rising tide of credit warning signals, it is now crystal clear that the underlying inflation rate in the United States is over 15% while the dollar declines in value at about the same rate. This double whammy is showing up in our pocketbooks, [...]