California State Bar Court Lacks Fundamental Knowledge of Loan Modifications
When it comes to the subject of getting one’s mortgage modified, very few actual “experts” exist. This undoubtedly seems an unlikely truth to many people, which only serves to further illustrate...
View ArticleCalifornia State Bar RECENT Decision to Cause More Harm to Homeowners in...
It’s hard to imagine anything gone so totally wrong as the California State Bar’s interpretation and subsequent handling of SB 94, a law passed in 2009 to prohibit the taking of advance fees in...
View ArticleOhio Foreclosures Accelerate… Now Third Highest in Nation
As of April of this year, foreclosure activity in Ohio had accelerated to the third highest level in the nation, and it’s not just “activity,” we’re talking huge jump in actual sheriff’s sales and...
View ArticleNew Jersey Supreme Court’s Guillaume decision meaningless – Should...
The foreclosure wars have always had two easily identifiable sides. It’s homeowners in one corner… and banks and mortgage servicers in the other. In the beginning the battle was largely over TILA...
View ArticleForeclosures Are Down? RealtyTrac VP, Daren Blomquist – The Definition of Obtuse
Daren Blomquist, a Vice President at RealtyTrac, has proclaimed that we have “past the worst of the foreclosure crisis.’ He points to what he claims to be a five-year low, along with...
View ArticleCalifornia State Bar Court Lacks Fundamental Knowledge of Loan Modifications
When it comes to the subject of getting one’s mortgage modified, very few actual “experts” exist. This undoubtedly seems an unlikely truth to many people, which only serves to further illustrate...
View ArticleCalifornia State Bar RECENT Decision to Cause More Harm to Homeowners in...
It’s hard to imagine anything gone so totally wrong as the California State Bar’s interpretation and subsequent handling of SB 94, a law passed in 2009 to prohibit the taking of advance fees in...
View ArticleHAMP. IT’S A REAL CLASS ACTion
Well, it looks like the day has finally come, and the world finally feels like it might someday soon make sense once again. The banks are finally going on trial over their handling of HAMP loan...
View ArticleTired of Reading? Videos on the Foreclosure Crisis.
Here’s something you don’t find every day on Mandelman Matters, a whole series of videos, most from C-Span’s coverage of various congressional hearings, and all having to do with the foreclosure...
View ArticleCalifornia State Bar Court Lacks Fundamental Knowledge of Loan Modifications
When it comes to the subject of getting one’s mortgage modified, very few actual “experts” exist. This undoubtedly seems an unlikely truth to many people, which only serves to further illustrate...
View ArticleCalifornia State Bar RECENT Decision to Cause More Harm to Homeowners in...
It’s hard to imagine anything gone so totally wrong as the California State Bar’s interpretation and subsequent handling of SB 94, a law passed in 2009 to prohibit the taking of advance fees in...
View ArticleTHE SiGNiNG… Or, Pardon me, Mr. Banker, but your REMIC is showing.
Tax fraud, tax evasion, securities fraud, a fraud on the courts, a Ponzi scheme of Herculean proportion, the unqualified failure of our government’s regulatory and enforcement agencies… the money long...
View ArticleForeclosure Fraud: Tough Issues With Which to Grapple
This past week, pretty much every conversation I find myself in has something to do with the MASSIVE FRAUD that has emerged related to our nation’s housing, mortgage, credit, foreclosure and economic...
View ArticleIf FHA’s losses are due to bad economy, why is Fannie blaming borrowers in...
According to BloombergBusinessweek just two days ago on November 15, 2012, the Federal Housing Administration (“FHA”) is going to need to be the next multi-billion dollar taxpayer funded bailout....
View ArticleWe’re Addicted to Denying our Addiction to FHA’s Mortgage Crack
The recent news about the 78 year-old Federal Housing Administration (“FHA”), being the next multi-billion dollar bailout and requiring $78 billion, has many implications and everyone should pay...
View ArticleHUD Revises the Rules Related to Reverse Mortgages
It was last April, right after the release of President Obama’s 2014 budget, when Assistant Housing Secretary Carol Galante was quoted as saying… “The President’s budget projects that FHA may need a...
View ArticleForeclosure Politics Here and Across the Pond – Professor David Coates on a...
Since 1999, Professor David Coates has been the Worrell Chair of Anglo-American Studies at Wake Forest University. Prior to joining the faculty at Wake Forest he directed the International Centre...
View ArticleEllen Brown, President of the Public Banking Institute, Has a Plan – A...
Click cover to buy on Amazon.com ELLEN BROWN EXPLODING THE MYTHS ABOUT MONEY Author of the book, “Web of Debt“ President of the Public Banking Institute A Mandelman Matters Podcast If you’re not...
View ArticleYou’ve got to give it up for the Spaniards… unless they’re bankers.
Camping in Zuccotti Park? Bank Transfer Day? Occupy protesting evictions… singing in courtrooms to disrupt trustee sales… lawsuits heaped upon lawsuits… yawn. What has happened to us? We used...
View ArticleNothing Goes Down in a Straight Line
Look… I hate being a porcupine in a balloon factory, so I’m not trying to take anything away from the numbers that are even slightly better than they’ve been in the recent past. In fact, I’m an...
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