The Ripple Effect of Foreclosures A report by Zillow explains how the effects of the Great Recession were not just twofold but deeply profound—and also reveals how the crisis served to benefit those who bought foreclosed homes during that time....

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Wells Fargo foreclosed on homeowners who  had a chance to keep their homes Wells Fargo & Co. foreclosed on 400 homeowners after improperly denying them loan modifications that could have allowed them to stay in their homes, the bank said in a...

Supreme Court’s ‘BFP’ Holding Misapplied In Foreclosure Sale Conducted Under RPTL After Ontario County sought foreclosure under New York’s Real Property Tax Law, appellants ­led Chapter 13 bankruptcy plans to pay arrears. Adversary proceedings...

Default Judgment in Foreclosure Action Vacated as Not Willful; Meritorious Defense Noted Default Judgment in Foreclosure Action Vacated as Not Willful; Meritorious Defense Noted Plaintiff sought foreclosure on a property Freeway Group Inc....

Class Action Lawsuit Claims Ocwen Improperly Foreclosed On Mortgagees (July 25, 2018, 4:50 PM EDT) -- Ocwen Loan Servicing LLC has been filing foreclosure actions against its mortgagees before either applying or refunding unapplied funds on...

Jury awards Garland woman $755,000 in lawsuit alleging foreclosure fraud. She purchased her home in 2001, and paid on it for 14 years, but began to fall behind in 2015 and the home fell into foreclosure. Days after the foreclosure notice went...

Mortgage Fraud Banking Syndicate Challenged in Pennsylvania By Mark Anderson Monetary reformer Mickey Paoletta has cleared a key legal hurdle with the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in his effort to use a “King’s Bench” petition to beat mortgage...

The League of Fraudulently Dispossessed Homeowners Criminal Joinder OMG we really did it. The League of Fraudulently Dispossessed Homeowners is fighting behind the scenes to put an end to the foreclosure madness and corruption plaguing our nation; and we...

Florida Appeals Court Ruled Lenders Can't Claim Rents During Foreclosure By Carolina Bolado Law360 (June 27, 2018, 10:13 PM EDT) -- A Florida appeals court ruled Wednesday that a property owner who was not a party to the original mortgage does not have to...

Are Foreclosure Judges Taking Bribes from Banks to Illegally Foreclose on Homeowners? Investigative journalist Janet Phelan, author of the book Exile and expert on uncovering evidence of financial corruption infesting our courts, exposes how corrupt...

Prove Unlawful Foreclosure Statute Of Limitations and You Could Save Your Home From Foreclosure Orginally posted June 22, 2018 at http://realtybiznews.com/prove-unlawful-foreclosure-statute-of-limitations-and-keep-your-home/98749036/ If a mortgage holder...

88-year-old Grandmother walks 1.2 miles to treasurer's office to save her home from foreclosure  NILES — For several years, Berrien County Treasurer Bret Witkowski has been teaching residents the steps they can take to keep their homes out of...

Paragraph 22, The Notice of Default and Right To Cure: How To Use This Most Overlooked Foreclosure Defense To Defeat Summary Judgment and Win at Trial (Foreclosure Workshop #16: Rebroadcast from July 17, 2016) This important broadcast, first...

Foreclosure Stopped By Due Process &The Rule of Law, Florida Appeals Court Applies and Overturns Another Ditech Foreclosure Lawsuit Fla 4th DCA Slams Door on “another Ditech loan” in foreclosure claims Posted on April 13, 2018 by Neil Garfield...

Nuns’ pressure leads Wells Fargo to publish causes of ‘systemic lapses in governance’ A group of nuns and religiously-affiliated investors said Wells Fargo & Co. has agreed to publish a review that shows the root causes of the systemic lapses...

Shellpoint Mortgage Servicing Wrongful Foreclosure Lawsuit to Stop Eviction  BERNARDSTON — As the auctioneers announced the sale of 73-year-old Bob McCollum’s home, his cat, Fluffy, came out for the action. The cat cozied up to the auctioneers. One of them...

Florida’s Third District Court of Appeals Decision Rejects Multiple Common Foreclosure Defenses On February 7, 2018, Florida’s Third District Court of Appeal rejected multiple arguments routinely advanced by borrowers’ counsel in defense and delay of...

Shellpoint Mortgage Servicing - Racketeering Still going on with "pretend lender/sesrvicers" Have never heard back from them as they know they were a "pretend lender/serivcer" who forced me basically into a short sale with all the money I lost...

BITCOIN is currently at $16,000 and set to hit $1,00,000 by 2020, according to experts Bitcoin surged to a record high of $11,377.33 Wednesday morning, according to CoinDesk. Outspoken libertarian and MGT Capital Investments CEO John McAfee...

New Residential to acquire Shellpoint Partners in $190 million deal HomeNews by Paolo Taruc04 Dec 2017 The Many Ways to Be Relieved of Your Timeshare ObligationsWhile it is true that a timeshare contract is a binding legal document, it is often...

Shellpoint Mortgage Servicing Foreclosure Sales Stopped Guaranteed RED FLAG: I have read the horrible things that Shellpoint is doing to others and I read this on RIPOFF REPORTS (Total Visits 8,998,758,637) "...call your local police immediately and also...

The Pro Se Problem Why Pro Se Litigants Have a Hard Time. Whether it's the high cost of lawyers' fees or growing distrust of lawyers, there is a mounting trend these days for more people to fight without a lawyer. The American Bar Association...

McGregor Fund grants $500,000 to help shield homeowners from tax foreclosure McGregor Fund grants $500,000 over two years United Community Housing Coalition will use funds to help 1,000 households in tax foreclosure Funds will help enroll...

Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, Division of Banking filed a Cease and Desist Order against Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC SPRINGFIELD, Ill., Sept. 28 -- The Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation...

Senator Warren Says That Equifax is Profiting from Data Hack While Consumers Pay the Price. With over 100 million files compromised in this latest cyber hack there is a very good chance that your personal information including your social security number...

Learn Good Legal Writing and How to Win in Court What is good legal writing? Impress the judge? Confuse the opponent? Or ... win your case? Your goal is: make a winning record! Too many pro se litigants miss this point. Any words not making a...

Anti-foreclosure activists make last-ditch effort to spare thousands of Detroiters from eviction Posted By Violet Ikonomova Steve Neavling A row of dilapidated houses at Crane and Charlevoix on Detroit’s east side. Eleven houses on this block...

CitiMortgage class action lawsuit for falsely notarized documents for hundreds of foreclosures in multiple states 9th Circuit revives lawsuit over CitiMortgage foreclosure records CitiMortgage must face a proposed class action accusing it of...

Federal Money available for Michigan homeowners facing foreclosure By Shruti Saripalli About $40 million dollars are available for Michigan homeowners who are facing troubles with their mortgage payments or property taxes, said Mary Tomley,...

Bank of America Hit with $45 Million Judgment over Reckless Foreclosure By Edvard Pettersson `Hero' Judge Urged by Couple to Nix $45 Million Bank of America Penalty. (Bloomberg) -- A California couple who were dragged through a Bank of America...

JPMorgan Ordered to Pay More Than $4 Billion to Widow and Family That’s billion with a B…. Outsize punitive damages awards are often reduced by courts Bank found by jury to have mismanaged estate of Max Hopper JPMorgan Chase & Co. was ordered...

JPMorgan’s Big Mortgage Securitization Secret is a Big Nothing Burger! Four years ago, JPMorgan Chase reached a then-record settlement with the Department of Justice after, among other things, the bank received a copy of a U.S. attorney’s draft...

Lenders limited to one foreclosure proceeding per property. A mortgage company can’t bring a second foreclosure action against a borrower after losing a similar foreclosure in the court system, Maine’s supreme court ruled. The court on Thursday unanimously...

Michigan's "Hardest Hit" program for homeowners is winding down. Hardest Hit is the federal program to help people keep their homes after the Great Recession. Mary Townley is vice president of Step Forward. That's the name of the state's...

California law makers approves bill to stop arbitration used by banks over Wells Fargo bank fraud The California Legislature has approved a bill aimed at stopping banks from using arbitration clauses to shield themselves from lawsuits over sham accounts —...

Nine years later, another Lehman Brothers bankruptcy The two affiliates, Lehman Brothers U.K. Holdings (Delaware) Inc and Lehman Pass-Through Securities Inc, were put into bankruptcy as part of a deal that will generate $485 million cash for...

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are extending additional relief to homeowners affected by the catastrophic flooding caused by Hurricane Harvey. Last week, Fannie and Freddie announced a number of measures that mortgage servicers can take to aid...

Control Corrupt Courts! Click Here to Learn How to Win Law school teaches all sorts of things ... but not how to control judges nor how to overcome scheming tricks of crooked lawyers! Law school is not the real world. Law professors are too...

The Difference Between a Short Sale, a Pre-foreclosure, and a Foreclosure By Audrey Ference | Aug 23, 2017 What is the difference between a short sale, pre-foreclosure, and foreclosure? If you're considering purchasing one of these kinds of properties,...