THE REAL MONEY TRAIL

MOST POPULAR ARTICLES GET COMBO TITLE AND SECURITIZATION ANALYSIS – CLICK HERE EDITOR’S NOTE: THIS SUBMISSION FROM NJ CONSUMER IS A LITTLE DIFFICULT TO BREEZE THROUGH, BUT IT CONTAINS GOOD RESEARCH AND GOOD QUESTIONS. At least one point emerging from all this information is that the basic concepts of default, performing loans and non-performing loans [...]

Allocation of Third Party Payments and Loans to Specific Loan Accounts

TURNING A DEFENSE INTO AN AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSE FOR SET OFF AND A CLAIM OR COUNTERCLAIM FOR DAMAGES AND ATTORNEY FEES So the question is how would you allocate third party payments and what difference will that make to a Judge hearing the case. ASSUMPTION: XYZ Investment Banking Holding company has received a total of $50 [...]

AZ STATUTE DEFINES BENEFICIARY and CREDIT BID: NOT “NOMINEE”

33-801. Definitions In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. “Beneficiary” means the person named or otherwise designated in a trust deed as the person for whose benefit a trust deed is given, or the person’s successor in interest. [Note that this does not include a nominee like MERS. There is a reason for [...]

BOA Suits Claims Credit Reports Used Instead of Title Searches

BofA Title claims BofA Wants $535M From Title Insurers By DAN MCCUE CHARLOTTE, N.C. (CN) – Bank of America claims mortgage insurers owe it more than $535 million for losses it suffered when the housing bubble burst. BofA, which bought the poster boy of the subprime lending fiasco, Countrywide Financial, 2 years ago, says title [...]

RULES OF ENGAGEMENT FOR FORECLOSURE DEFENSE LAWYERS

See Judge Long’s Decision – Make sure you shepardize 384283_Ibanez Larace motion to vacate memorandum Oct2009Misc 384283 and Misc 3867551 when a foreclosure is noticed and conducted for one party by another, the name of the principal must be disclosed in the notice. the plaintiffs themselves recognized that they needed assignments in recordable form explicitly [...]