Now They See the Light — 40% of Homes Underwater

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Florida 6th District Strikes at Heart of Pretender Lenders

5 08 10 Florida mediationorder The main message is that what we have here is a legal obligation in search of a creditor and that the opposition is trying to use the court as a vehicle to steal the house and run with it while the whole securitization mess is scrutinized. I think this Order [...]

Investors Settle for $600 million — so which loans get credit for that payment?

Editor’s Note: This is what we are hearing about. What about the settlements that go unreported? The number of settlements that are off-record (unreported) is unknown but suspected to be very high. [One of the reasons why it is SO important to get the true CURRENT status of the SPV and the true FULL accounting [...]

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 [...]

The Narrative Has Shifted: Take Advantage of it

Your allegations of intentional misdeeds, fabricated documents and forgeries have new life now that the SEC is hot on the trail of the wrongdoers in a very public way. As the news sinks in more and more Judges, lawyers and experts and forensic analysts will see their role more as a commitment to justice than [...]

Profits Surge as Declared Losses Vanish: Are the defaults real?

And THAT is why you are entitled to compel discovery, compel answers to your QWR, DVL and other requests. If the losses were not real, if the pools were marked down solely on the say-so of the financial institutions that created them, if the default rate was really much lower than the declared defaults, if [...]

Lawsuits Against Pretender Lenders Skyrocket

In the last five years, the number of foreclosure lawsuits filed in federal court in California has ballooned — like an exploding adjustable-rate mortgage — from only 29 statewide in 2005 to nearly 1,400 last year. Increasing numbers of Californians are suing lenders to avoid foreclosures By Tracey Kaplan and Maria J. Ávila López, www.mercurynews.com [...]