FRAUD: The Significance of the Game Changing FHFA Lawsuits

MOST POPULAR ARTICLES GET COMBO TITLE AND SECURITIZATION ANALYSIS – CLICK HERE FHFA ACCUSES BANKS OF FRAUD: THEY KNEW THEY WERE LYING “FHFA has refrained from sugar coating the banks’ alleged conduct as mere inadvertence, negligence, or recklessness, as many plaintiffs have done thus far.  Instead, it has come right out and accused certain banks [...]

GOOD PLEADINGS: FAGAN V WELLS FARGO ET AL

CLE SEMINAR: SECURITIZATION WORKSHOP FOR ATTORNEYS — REGISTER NOW CLICK HERE TO RESERVE GROUP RATE AT HILTON SEE LIVINGLIES LITIGATION SUPPORT AT LUMINAQ.COM Suit Filed Incorporating Agency Sanctions and Consent Decrees from Last Week “And most importantly, Fagan goes again to the heart of the securitization illusion, the falsity of the presentations made to both [...]

TITLE COMPANIES AND AGENTS BRACE FOR WORST YEAR OF THEIR EXISTENCE

COMBO Title and Securitization Search, Report, Documents, Analysis & Commentary We all know the expression about the light at the end of the tunnel being an oncoming train. Title agents and title carriers are in the middle of a tunnel intersecting with other tunnels each with a light of an oncoming train. In a word, [...]

PROFITS BEING MADE ON FORCED SALE OF PROPERTIES

TOP READER PICKS FOR SERVICES AND PRODUCTS “My mortgage was $124,000…property was titled to the lender after foreclosure and conveyed to Fannie Mae for $132,000…property was then transferred to new purchaser for $156,000…all my equity was lost because lender would not work with me…am I entitled to any portion of Fannie Mae’s profit in selling [...]

YOU MAY BE ENTITLED TO CASH PAYMENT FOR WRONGFUL FORECLOSURE — Coming to a Billboard Near YOU

SERVICES YOU NEED EDITOR’S NOTE: Well it has finally happened. Three years ago I couldn’t get a single lawyer anywhere to consider this line of work. I predicted that this area of expertise in their practice would dwarf anything they were currently doing including personal injury and malpractice. I even tried to guarantee fees to [...]

GMAC HALTS FORECLOSURES ADMITTING FALSE AFFIDAVITS

SERVICES YOU NEED From testimony in a Chase case, same as dozens of others I have seen —- Q. So if you didn’t review any books, records, and documents or computerized records, how is it that you had personal knowledge of all the matters contained therein? A. Well, I have personal knowledge that my staff [...]

Ratings Arbitrage a/k/a Fraud

Investment banks bundled mortgage loans into securities and then often rebundled those securities one or two more times. Those securities were given high ratings and sold to investors, who have since lost billions of dollars on them. Editor’s Note: The significance of this report cannot be overstated. Not only did the investment bankers LOOK for [...]

TILA Statute of Limitations — No Limit

Editor’s Note: Judges are quick to jump on the TILA Statute of Limitations by imposing the one year rule for rescission and damages. But there is more to it than that. First the statute does NOT cut off at one year except for items that are apparent on the face of the closing documentation; so [...]

Forensic analysis, DISCOVERY: BofA Hides Behind Reconstrust Subsidiary

Editor’s Notes: Bank of America is smarter than most. It has created a web of companies whose function is to perform activities that hide the fact that it is Bank of America, and there are other pretender lenders who hide behind this entity who suddenly appears as “trustee” or some other entity claiming the right [...]

Ambac Clients May Receive 25 Cents on Dollar in Cash

Editor’s Note: The significance of this announcement is that the bondholders, who were insured directly by AMBAC (as opposed to the investment bankers who bought “bets” like credit default swaps) are receiving 25 cents on every dollar they funded as creditors for the funding of loan to homeowners (debtors/ borrowers). This supports and corroborates two [...]

Garfield Continuum White Paper Explains Economics of Securitization of Residential Mortgages

SEE The Economics and Incentives of Yield Spread Premiums and Credit Default Swaps March 23, 2010: Editor’s Note: The YSP/CDS paper is intentionally oversimplified in order to demonstrate the underlying economics of securitization as it was employed in the last decade. To be clear, there are several things I was required to do in order [...]

Tax Impact of Principal Reduction

With the Obama administration and private lenders actively considering mortgage-principal-reduction programs to help financially distressed homeowners, the Internal Revenue Service has issued an advisory to taxpayers who receive — or seek to receive — such assistance if it’s offered. Editor’s Note: The only thing I would add to this, for the moment, is that any [...]

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 [...]

Accounting for Damages: Madoff Ruling May Affect Homeowner Claims

Editor’s Note: Looking further down the road, when the Ponzi aspect of the Mortgage Meltdown is fully revealed, it will become obvious that both yield spread premiums and the proceeds of credit default swaps, insurance and federal bailout are subject to claims by homeowners. The Trustee’s conclusion as affirmed by the Judge’s ruling in the [...]

Jury Demand: Should You or Shouldn’t You

Since this question keeps popping up I figured I would take a shot at it. The theory is that by asking for a jury verdict you are taking the matter out of the hands of a politicized judge and putting it in the hands of what is likely to be a very angry jury pool [...]

How to Negotiate a Short-Sale

see how-to-negotiate-a-modification See Template-Lawsuit-STOP-foreclosure-TILA-Mortgage-Fraud-predatory-lending-Set-Aside-Illegal-Trustee-Sale-Civil-Rico-Etc Includes QUIET TITLE and MOST FEDERAL STATUTES — CALIFORNIA COMPLAINT See how-to-buy-a-foreclosed-house-its-a-business-its-an-opportunity-its-a-risk My statements here relate to general information and not legal advice. Generally we the vast majority of short-sales fail. Whatever the reason told to you, the real reason is that there is trouble amongst the ankle-biters on Wall Street and [...]

Foreclosure Defense: False Appraisal Creates APR Disclosure Violation

The inflated appraisals that run at the core of the mortgage meltdown context and crisis results in a number of claims against the lender, the appraiser, the mortgage broker, the real estate broker, the developer, and entities upline in the securitization process, plus the insurance companies carrying errors and omissions and other assurance on those [...]

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, [...]

FORECLOSURES: TILA RIGHT OF RESCISSION and CONSEQUENCES

Seminars for Layman (Pro Se Litigants) and For Lawyers TILA RIGHT OF RESCISSION and CONSEQUENCES TRUTH IN LENDING FEDERAL CIVIL COURT, FEDERAL BANKRUPTCY, STATE COURT INFORMATION THIS POST RELATES ONLY TO RESCISSION UNDER TILA. IT SHOULD BE REMEMBERED THAT THERE ARE MULTIPLE GROUNDS FOR RESCISSION AND CANCELLATION OF THESE NOTES AND POSSIBLY TREBLE DAMAGES FOR [...]

Foreclosure Defense: Get into the Details: Trustee Deeds

IT IS ENTIRELY POSSIBLE THAT THE TRUSTEE HOLDING THE DEED AND MORTGAGE, THE APPRAISER OR LENDER HOLDS AN INSURANCE POLICY THAT PROVIDES A BASIS FOR RECOVERY OF YOUR DOWN PAYMENT AND OTHER REFUNDS DUE FROM VIOLATIONS OF TILA, RESPA, RICO ETC. In states that use Trustees for deeds and mortgages, you should of course check [...]