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Don’t worry, they have full control of the situation. It’s okay if the paperwork is in order. Really.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…“It is a serious problem,” said David Axelrod, who contended that the flawed paperwork is hurting the nation’s housing market as well as lending institutions. But he added, “I’m not sure about a national moratorium because there are in fact valid foreclosures that probably should go forward” because their documents are accurate.
Axelrod said the administration is pressing lenders to accelerate their reviews of foreclosures to determine which ones have flawed documentation.
“Our hope is this moves rapidly and that this gets unwound very, very quickly,” he said.
Bloomberg.com
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/…Attorneys general in about 40 states may announce as early as this week a joint investigation into potentially faulty foreclosures at the largest banks and mortgage firms, Bloomberg News reported on Oct. 8, citing a person with direct knowledge of the matter. The investigation may center on claims that employees at home lenders and loan servicers signed court documents without ensuring the information was accurate.
Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Ally Financial Inc. have already frozen foreclosures in 23 states where courts supervise home seizures, amid allegations that employees used unverified or false data to speed the process. Litton Loan Servicing LP, a mortgage-servicing business owned by Goldman Sachs Group Inc., said last week it’s halting some foreclosures to review how they’re handled.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Democrat from Nevada, urged other banks and mortgage firms to follow Bank of America’s lead and “review their practices to ensure that they are not unfairly targeting homeowners in Nevada and across the nation,” according to a statement last week.
House Minority Whip on Fox News
People have to take responsibility for themselves.
Just inspirational.
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it’ll all be ok if they torture the spirit and wording of the law to cover their asses, iow…
their reviews? Aren’t we constantly told that we have no really trained people out there for many jobs. So there are no unemployed “folks” out there to take on these jobs. And banks aren’t hiring new people – that’s not what the bailout was for – come on, David!
More fodder for Obama to talk about in his “education” riff.
Are there any benefits to the banks in halting foreclosures?
I dunno…something tells me this was a little too easy.
If assets are marked to model, isn’t the (more) accurate value revealed when they are foreclosed? How much $$ are banks losing on foreclosures?
Again, just curious
This is actually a crime, and the beginning of a sequence of crimes which terminates in unlawful foreclosures, a form of “illegal seizure of property,” which is just another way of saying… “theft.”
Believe it or not, some people are actually serving hard time in state and federal prisons for “illegal seizure of property.”
You might even say that sanctions against “illegal seizure of property” are a fundamental aspect of Anglo-American law.
And so what?