The Banks, Rushing To Foreclose So They Can Sit On Vacant Homes

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JUDGES GETTING ANGRY AT BANK LAWYERS

COMBO Title and Securitization Search, Report, Documents, Analysis & Commentary Neil F Garfield, Esq. Judge Arthur Schack, left, of New York State Supreme Court, called one filing “outrageous.” Jonathan Lippman, the state’s chief judge, says lawyers must ask clients if their paperwork is sound Ozier Muhammad/The New York Times SHODDY AND FALSE PAPERWORK CITED NEW [...]

Judges Rising to the Rules

Editor’s Comment: Without inventing anything, an increasing number of Judges are coming to the same conclusion. If they apply the rules and deny the pretender lender the benefit of presumptions to which they were not entitled in the first place, the case can be heard on the merits. They don’t need to decide who is [...]

NY Judges Slamming Debt Collectors

Eltman, Eltman & Cooper was one of 35 law firms sued last July by the state, which claimed that they had improperly obtained more than 100,000 judgments in consumer-debt cases. Editor’s notes: The dubious “enforcement” of mortgages, notes and “obligations (that have been paid many times over through credit enhancement) is both mirrored and amplified [...]

THE DANGERS OF DEFENDING YOUR FORECLOSURE CASE WITHOUT AN ATTORNEY

We have attempted to provide assistance here to attorneys and to people without attorneys. A good friend and colleague submitted the following piece which is well worth reading. In reading through the many mortgage “horror stories” which I have seen both on your blog and elsewhere, it is understandable that homeowners who are being sued [...]

Can You Contest Your Foreclosure?

“This is not about mismanagement of a hedge fund. It is about premeditated lies to investors and lenders” – Mark Mershon, head of New York FBI office, after the arrests of two former Bear Stearns managers on conspiracy and fraud charges. Picked these up from foreclosureslam.com. The first point that the lender might not have [...]

Mortgage Meltdown: Don’t wait for the Cavalry

It isn’t coming. Practicality is being trumped by ideology and politics. Help will not arrive in time to help you. You must help yourself. Whether you have a lawyer to help or not, you need to aggressively defend, refuse to cooperate and demand judicial fairness. If you all pile into the court system, the court [...]