Mortgage Assignment & Affidavit Fraud

Posted on October 27, 2009. Filed under: Banking, Finance, Foreclosure Defense, Mortgage Audit, Mortgage Fraud, Mortgage Law, Predatory Lending | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

In bankruptcy and government takeovers of financial institutions, missing collateral is a major obstacle for trustees and regulators to overcome. The missing assignment problem is an extension of not carelessness or sloppiness as many have claimed, but of overt acts of fraud.
Skilled attorneys and forensic accounting experts could expose this fraud and as such, the [...]

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Fair Game – If the Lender Can’t Find the Mortgage

Posted on October 25, 2009. Filed under: Banking, Case Law, Foreclosure Defense, Housing, Loan Modification, Mortgage Law, bankruptcy | Tags: , , , , , , , |

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 [...]

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Memoranda in Support of Motions to Dismiss Foreclosure

Posted on October 21, 2009. Filed under: Case Law, Foreclosure Defense | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

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 [...]

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MERS v. Southwest Homes of Arkansas

Posted on October 5, 2009. Filed under: Case Law, Finance, Foreclosure Defense, Mortgage Audit, Mortgage Law | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |

MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEM, INC., APPELLANT, VS. SOUTHWEST HOMES OF ARKANSAS, APPELLEE
No. 08-1299
SUPREME COURT OF ARKANSAS
2009 Ark. LEXIS 121
March 19, 2009, Opinion Delivered
NOTICE:
THE LEXIS PAGINATION OF THIS DOCUMENT IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE PENDING RELEASE OF THE FINAL PUBLISHED VERSION.
SUBSEQUENT HISTORY: Rehearing denied by Mortgage Elec. Registration Sys. v. Southwest Homes of Ark., Inc., 2009 Ark. [...]

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Loan modifications growing

Posted on September 11, 2009. Filed under: Foreclosure Defense, Housing, Loan Modification, Mortgage Audit | Tags: , , , , , , , |

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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U.S. partners in home loan modifications accused of broad abuses

Posted on August 9, 2009. Filed under: Foreclosure Defense, Fraud, Housing, Legislation, Loan Modification, Mortgage Audit, Mortgage Fraud, Mortgage Law, Predatory Lending | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

WASHINGTON — Billions of dollars that the government is spending to help financially pressed homeowners avert foreclosure are passing through — and enriching — companies accused of preying on the people they are supposed to help, an Associated Press investigation has found.The companies, known as mortgage servicers, collect monthly payments from homeowners and funnel the [...]

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Washington Mutual v. Raymond & Rhonda Payne

Posted on July 8, 2009. Filed under: Case Law, Foreclosure Defense, Housing, Mortgage Law | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

WASHINGTON MUTUAL BANK, NA, Plaintiff,
v.
RAYMOND R. PAYNE AND RHONDA K. PAYNE, Defendants.
Supreme Court, Suffolk County.
Decided June 15, 2009.
Shapiro & DiCaro, LLP, Rochester, NY, Attys. for Plaintiff.
David Gevanter, ESQ., Hicksville, NY, Attys. for Defendants.
THOMAS F. WHELAN, J.
ORDERED that this motion (#004) by defendant, Raymond R. Payne, for an order staying the public sale of the subject [...]

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Why banks want you all alone when negotiating a loan modification

Posted on July 5, 2009. Filed under: Banking, Case Law, Foreclosure Defense, Housing, Legislation, Loan Modification, Mortgage Audit, Mortgage Law, Politics, Predatory Lending, Refinance, bankruptcy | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

They are telling you to run away from loan modification companies who charge a fee. They are paying the politicians to introduce laws making it difficult for you to hire an attorney when negotiating a loan workout. They want you to contact them directly and without the assistance of an advocate. They are scaring you [...]

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Loan Modifications up 55% in Q1

Posted on July 1, 2009. Filed under: Foreclosure Defense, Loan Modification, Mortgage Law | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

The pace of home loan modifications shot up during the first quarter, but so did mortgage payment delinquencies and foreclosures, U.S. bank regulators said on Tuesday.
The quarterly report on mortgage metrics showed that the quality of modifications improved, with more than half of them resulting in lower monthly principal and interest payments.

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FTC halts mortgage operation for misrepresentation of loss mitigation

Posted on June 29, 2009. Filed under: Foreclosure Defense, Fraud, Legislation, Loan Modification, Mortgage Audit, Mortgage Fraud, Mortgage Law | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

At the request of the Federal Trade Commission, a federal court has halted a bogus mortgage foreclosure prevention operation that misrepresented both the “loss mitigation” services it offered and the earnings potential of the business opportunity it sold. The FTC seeks to end this deceptive scheme and make the defendants give up their ill-gotten gains.
According [...]

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