Why We Do What We Do

 “Without your blog I would not have found the right lawyer in my state.”                                                                                                                              - Meghan in RI “Some of the most rewarding work of my career.”                                                                                                                   – Chris Brown Esq. While we understand the many reasons borrowers pursue their cause on a ProSe or ProPer basis,  it has been our position since the [...]

Keiser’s Forensic Analysis Workshop

You must remember the judiciary moves slowly is assimilating new facts or patterns in the marketplace. In order to break through a Judge’s preconception of the mortgage origination process, you need to have something that is clear in is presentation of facts, and obvious in its impact. The reasons for having analysis performed by an [...]

Credit Suisse Appraisal Fraud Cited by Investors

In the complaint, the plaintiffs’ lawyers contend that Credit Suisse and Cushman & Wakefield conspired by setting up a Cayman Islands branch to circumvent federal law on real estate appraisals. Credit Suisse knew the resorts would most likely default under the weight of inflated values, which would allow the bank to take ownership as agent [...]

Fraud Alert: Color Copies being Used to Fabricate Alleged Originals

I have received a number of reports that “outsource providers” are servicing the foreclosers by creating color copies of documents and submitting them as originals. One report is that the “original” was examined at the courthouse and found to be a printout from a very good color printer. It’s a neat trick and one that [...]

MYTHS of MODIFICATION EXPOSED

MYTH  any imaginary person or thing spoken of as though existing any fictitious story, or unscientific account, theory, belief, etc. Kudos to investigative journalist Kevin Hall with McClatchy Newspapers for inserting himself into the so called “loan modification” process and exposing the farce that is being perpetrated on the American public in the article below. [...]

MERS AND COUNTRYWIDE V AGIN: THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS

NOW AVAILABLE ON AMAZON KINDLE! MERS and Countrywide v Agin Trustee D Ct Mass Aff’d B Ct on Avoidance Mtg 20091117 NOTE FROM EDITOR SEEKING HELP: Rumor has it San Diego has stopped all foreclosures. I need this corroborated or debunked quickly. Can I get a little help here? The case in this POST comes [...]

Audit Faults New York Fed in A.I.G. Bailout

Editor’s Note: In this article you have the nub of the problem for the investors, for the foreclosers, for the pretender lenders. What did the taxpayer actually pay for and what did they get for it? And if the money all went to pay off credit default swaps at 100 cents on the dollar then [...]

FOLLOWING THE MONEY — WHAT TO ASK FOR AND LOOK FOR

MANY THANKS TO DAN EDSTROM Dan has put together a list which frankly I would like him to expand. Following the money means determining the party to whom you MIGHT owe money. It certainly isn’t the pretender lender and if you can fill in the blanks on this list you will be able to show [...]

“The Dog Ate Your Mortgage” — Gretchen Morgenson (NY Times) Hits it Again

LIVINGLIES NOW AVAILABLE ON AMAZON KINDLE! SIGN UP FOR CLEARWATER, FLORIDA SEMINAR NOW If you want a summary of about 75% of what we cover at the seminar in Clearwater, Florida on November 1-2, just read this article. I’ll explain how we got to this point, the legal points to be raised and how to [...]

TWO Undisclosed Yield Spread Premiums: Why Securitization Changes the Game

LIVINGLIES NOW AVAILABLE ON AMAZON KINDLE! SIGN UP FOR CLEARWATER, FLORIDA SEMINAR NOW So called “auditors” will miss the fact that there are two yield spread premiums that were not disclosed to either the homeowner or the investor. Failure to account for the movement of money through the securitization chain and failure to account for [...]

Don’t Get “HAMP”ED Out Of Your Home!

By Walter Hackett, Esq. The federal government has trumpeted its Home Affordable Modification Program or “HAMP” solution as THE solution to runaway foreclosures – few things could be further from the truth.  Under HAMP a homeowner will be offered a “workout” that can result in the homeowner being “worked out” of his or her home.  [...]

NY TIMES: What do the market traders know that the rest of the world does not?

NY Times second lead article is how are these “Troubled Assets” going to be valued? 97 cents on the dollar (management), 87 cents (S&P at current default rates), 53 cents under “bleaker” (undefined conditions), 38 cents where the trading markets value them, or 0 cents on the “Garfield Continuum Index.” ? why the disparity? What [...]

“System is Broken” — there is no clear title and no clear answers, which is why most foreclosure actions should fail or be reversed

Mortgage market clouds who owns woman’s house Submitted by Jose Semedey — Thank You By CARRIE TEEGARDIN The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Sunday, January 25, 2009 Twenty years ago, Zella Mae Green bought a modest brick ranch house in DeKalb County with an American ideal in mind. The single mother of four, who raised her children working [...]

MERS MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION Reveals Index to Securitization and Investors: Allegation that MERS is authorized or even nominal beneficiary is false

Sample Link: validatembrsearch.jsp?as_mbrsearch=1006937 mers-membership milestoneplus Sample Response Record: Corporate Name: West Coast Servicing, Inc. Address: 17011 Beach Blvd., #300 City,State,Zip: Huntington Beach, CA 92647 Toll Free Number: (866) 574-2001 Direct Number: (714) 596-6333 Fax Number: (714) 596-6333 Primary Contact: Cameron Clayton Website: http://www.wcrsi.com Member Org ID: 1006937 Lines Of Business: Originator, Servicer, Subservicer, Investor, Document [...]

Non Judicial as Private Contract: Opening the Door to Homeowners for Self-Help

What is good for the goose is good for the gander. After months of wrangling with the obvious due process issues invovled in allowing a Trustee on the Deed of Trust to send a Notice of Default, Notice of Default and to file an eviction (unlawful detainer), it has occurred to me that the reasoning [...]

WHY WALL STREET ALWAYS BLOWS IT (and where the money went)

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 [...]

FIGURING OUT THE ECONOMICS OF OUR AMERICAN MELTDOWN FRAUD

Gump59 – Why buy performing mortgages? If they are producing income for their owners, why wouldn’t they be held onto? > ANSWER: You’d buy a performing mortgage if you thought that you were buying it at a bargain, guaranteed with Triple AAA rating. If you buy a mortgage note that has a principal balance due [...]

Indymac: federal banking regulator allowed the bank to backdate a capital infusion and gloss over its deepening problems, the Treasury Department’s independent investigator said Monday

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 [...]

Unnamed Defendants in Mortgage Meltdown: Accountants for Banks and Investment Bankers

Some time ago we mentioned on these pages that the auditors who certified the financial statements (KPMG, here) would come under intense scutiny simply because they MUST have known, by simple common sense, that the economics of mortgage lending had been turned on its head. The worse the loan quality the more they made leaving [...]

Ohio AG Files Suit AGainst Loan Mod Predator: Be Careful!!!

Ohio AG Files Suit Against Loan Modification Firm For Violations Of State Consumer Statutes; Homeowners Clipped For Upfront Fees Averaging $650 From the Ohio Attorney General’s Office: The Ohio Attorney General filed a lawsuit [last Friday] to stop a foreclosure rescue business from continuing to victimize consumers throughout the state. The lawsuit, filed in the [...]