FDIC Says Mortgages Retain Risk-Weight After HAMP
The federal bank and thrift regulatory agencies issued a final rule that mortgage loans modified under the Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) retain the risk weight appropriate to the loan before modification.
Under HAMP, the US Treasury Department allocates funds to participating servicers for the modification of loans on the verge of foreclosure.
The final rule (available [...]
Fair Game – If the Lender Can’t Find the Mortgage
By GRETCHEN MORGENSON
Published: October 24, 2009
FOR decades, when troubled homeowners and banks battled over delinquent mortgages, it wasn’t a contest. Homes went into foreclosure, and lenders took control of the property.
On top of that, courts rubber-stamped the array of foreclosure charges that lenders heaped onto borrowers and took banks at their word when the lenders [...]
Foreclosures Are More Profitable Than Loan Modifications, According To New Report
Mortgage companies are more likely to foreclose on homeowners than modify their loans because they make more money off foreclosures, argues a new report by a consumer advocacy group.
While homeowners, lenders and investors typically lose money on a foreclosure, mortgage servicers do not, says report author Diane E. Thompson, of counsel at the National Consumer [...]
The next financial tsunami unleashed by toxic mortgages
By PAM MARTENS
The financial tsunami unleashed by Wall Street’s esurient alchemy of spinning toxic home mortgages into triple-A bonds, a process known as securitization, has set off its second round of financial tremors.
After leaving mortgage investors, bank shareholders, and pension fiduciaries awash in losses and a large chunk of Wall Street feeding at the [...]
Memoranda in Support of Motions to Dismiss Foreclosure
2.3 Memoranda in Support of Motions to Dismiss Foreclosure
2.3.1 Memorandum in Support of Motion to Dismiss, Case #4
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT, FOURTH
JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR
DUVAL COUNTY, FLORIDA.
CASE NO.:
DIVISION:
MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION
SYSTEMS, INC.,
Plaintiff,
vs.
[DEFENDANT], DECEASED, ET AL
Defendants.
SEPARATE DEFENDANT, [SEPARATE DEFENDANT]’S MOTION TO CANCEL SUMMARY JUDGMENT HEARING, DISMISS PLAINTIFF’S COMPLAINT, OR IN THE ALTERNATIVE, MOTION FOR [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Marcy Kaptur to Banks: “Produce The Note”
Fight Club entered popular culture in 1999 when director David Fincher adapted Chuck Palahniuk’s novel into a film that reflected the zeitgeist of modern America with its empty culture, obsession with aesthetic beauty, and slavish under and middle classes.
Warning: Decade-old spoiler coming up.
The film ends with the agents of “Project Mayhem,” protagonist Tyler Durden’s followers, [...]
Ruling by judges rattles mortgage industry
A bankruptcy judge here, joining judges across the country, is throwing a bit of sand in the gears of the mortgage machine and its ruthless foreclosure blade.
She has raised this issue: In many home foreclosures springing out of bankruptcy proceedings, the foreclosure is being triggered by a representative of the lender — a surrogate that [...]
US Senate: STOP BEING STUPID
The legislation, introduced today by Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island, would require lenders to evaluate all borrowers for affordable loan modifications before initiating foreclosure. It would also require banks to offer and approve a loan modification if the restructured mortgage returns more money, the so-called net-present value, to investors than would foreclosure.
The proposal would [...]
Massive Relief for Homeowners and Trouble for Banks
A landmark ruling in a recent Kansas Supreme Court case may have given millions of distressed homeowners the legal wedge they need to avoid foreclosure. In Landmark National Bank v. Kesler, 2009 Kan. LEXIS 834, the Kansas Supreme Court held that a nominee company called MERS has no right or standing to bring an action [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Loan modifications growing
The Obama administration said Wednesday it is on track to secure 500,000 trial loan modifications for struggling homeowners by Nov. 1, as both the number of participating mortgage companies and the number of offers extended under the Home Affordable Modification Program increased last month.The second report from the Treasury Department on its $75 billion mortgage [...]
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