Message on the Forensic TILA Analysis — It’s a Lot More Than it Appears

Featured Product by The Garfield Firm NEW! 2nd Edition Attorney Workbook,Treatise & Practice Manual For Customer Service call 1-520-405-1688 —————————————————————————– No doubt some of you know that we have had some challenges regarding the Forensic TILA analysis. It’s my fault. I decided that the plain TILA analysis was insufficient for courtroom use based upon the [...]

Livinglies Posts $100 Reward for HERS Fabrication Index

Announcing the establishment of the Homeowners Electronic Registration System (HERS) to assist in mortgage negotiations, litigation, foreclosures and modifications. HERS v MERS, Get It? We are looking for someone to go through the comments and blog posts that give the name of an officer or other person signing any paper involved in the mortgage or [...]

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 [...]

Michigan, Ohio, Texas Lawyers Wanted: We Know You’re Out There

The business case for taking, handling and litigating residential “mortgage” cases has been proven over and over again. Unfortunately most lawyers are ignoring this opportunity. The latest estimates are that it will take 6-12 years to clean up this mess and I think that is very conservative. My analysis shows that it will take the [...]

Beating Lawyer Finesse: Is He/She a WITNESS or a Lawyer?

If the lawyer is not a competent witness with personal knowledge, then he should shut up and sit down. See also fraud-on-the-court-reversing-the-tide See also Judge Young:  federal-appeal-slams-lawyers-and-pretender-lenders-with-sanctions-for-misrepresentation-on-ownership-of-loan See also modification-fraud-the-latest-game-in-town   So you sent a QWR and you know the loan is securitized. The orignating lender says talk to the servicer and the servicer declines [...]

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.  [...]

The Elephant in the Room – Well One of Many…

By Brad Keiser For those of you who have been to our seminars, (coming to Southern California next month) You have heard me ask about Hank Paulson and Ben Bernanke…”Are they stupid or were they lying when they said everything was OK through out all of 2007 and most of 2008?” You have seen and heard why Neil and I declare [...]

Terrific resources to watch: These will help you

First From Comments: mers-info-excellent-submission-and-discovery And second: take a look at this site, which is under attack by Goldman Sachs for telling the truth and raising good questions. Goldman Masters of the Unvierse are going to try to shut it down. www.goldmansachs666.com

MERS: 57 million mortgages on its Books: MSNBC Stuckey — Lenders passed around the deed to Vargas’ house as if it were a whiskey bottle at a frat party

Great Song says it All- Click to Play: Shuttin Detroit Down cnbc-airs-house-of-cards-closer-to-the-truth-but-not-quite-there-line-up-the-story-of-the-borrower-and-the-story-of-the-investor-and-they-are-the-same civil-disobedience-on-the-rise-as-sheriffs-refuse-to-serve-evictions-%E2%80%9Ci-refuse-to-leave-the-home-that-i%E2%80%99ve-worked-so-hard-to-keep-i-will-not-let-the-bank-take-my-home-and-i-will-not D-Day vet’s tale parallels mortgage meltdown Ex-corpsman, 84, blames ‘greed, greed, greed’ as he faces losing his home By Mike Stuckey Senior news editor msnbc.com Feb. 17, 2009 CERRITOS, Calif. – Questions linger here, as ripe and nagging as the odor that [...]

“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 [...]

The home you save could be your own: MSNBC Story by Mike Stuckey Quoting Living Lies Editor Neil Garfield

The home you save could be your own In foreclosure crisis, more Americans representing themselves in court By Mike Stuckey Senior news editor msnbc.com updated 4:25 a.m. MT, Wed., Jan. 28, 2009 Luis Molina is not a lawyer and he has never played one on TV. But that didn’t stop him from putting on his [...]

Foreclosures in U.S. Rose 81%, Topping 2.3 Million Last Year

Foreclosures in U.S. Rose 81%, Topping 2.3 Million Last Year By Dan Levy Jan. 15 (Bloomberg) — U.S. foreclosure filings jumped 81 percent last year as falling house prices, tighter mortgage lending and the longest recession in a quarter century battered property owners, RealtyTrac Inc. said. More than 2.3 million properties got a default or [...]

Superb Complaint piercing the heart of Deutsch Bank’s authority to collect money, file suit, seeking recovery of property and money through receiver and damages against the lawyers who filed the foreclosure suits

Superb Complaint piercing the heart of Deutsch Bank’s authority to collect money, file suit, seeking recovery of property and money through receiver and damages against the lawyers who filed the foreclosure suits. whittiker_v_deutsche_bank_complaint In the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, eastern Division, Case no. 1:08CV300, Judge David D. Dowd, Jr. [...]

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 [...]

Another SEC Form to Look For: FORM 13F

UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549 FORM 13F FORM 13F COVER PAGE REPORT FOR THE QUARTER ENDED: 06/30/2007 INSTITUTIONAL INVESTMENT MANAGER FILING THIS REPORT: NAME: BANK OF NEW YORK TRUST COMPANY, N.A. STREET: 700 SOUTH FLOWER STREET SUITE 200 LOS ANGELES CA 90017 13F FILE NUMBER: 028-11850 THE INSTITUTIONAL INVESTMENT MANAGER FILING [...]

HOW TO CHOOSE AN AUDITOR, LOSS MITIGATOR, SHORT ALE “SPECIALIST”, LOAN MODIFICATION “EXPERT” — CHEAP IS DEAR, YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR

ohio-ag-files-suit-against-loan-mod-predator-be-careful The answer to your question is YES we have lawyers and the list grows every week. You can start with the “Lawyers Who Get it” at www.livinglies.wordpress.com. If you still have trouble then contact us again. In the meanwhile, allow me to point out that the process of defending your property is intimidating to [...]

Clearinghouse and Trustees Defined From Garfield’s Glossary: Some of the new entries

CLEARINGHOUSE: A company or government sponsored entity that either takes physical possession of transactional documents and records them on its own books. An accepted clearinghouse’s records is used as business records to prove ownership of a particular security or other transactional document. Cede and Company and others are the clearinghouse for quadrillions of dollars of [...]

Clearinghouse for Paperwork: Cede and Co and Depository Trust Clearing Corporation: But are the Mortgage Backed Certificates There?

A CEDE & CO partnered company. Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation DTC From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation Type Private Genre Holding company Founded DTCC (1999) – holding company for DTC (1973) and NSCC (1976) Headquarters New York City, U.S. No. of locations 4 Key people Don [...]

Give them a copy of your money if they think a copy is sufficient. If they want real money, demand a real note.

Good comment from reader. I would add though that merely having a copy of the note is insufficient for many reasons. Merely having an allonge is insufficient if it was not attached to the note at the time of execution and if it did not stay attached from that time forrward. Merely having an original [...]

WORKSHOPS COMING UP 8 CA CLE & 9.5 FLA CLE CREDITS

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