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In Re Walker, Part Deux – March 3rd, 2011, may just be a HUGE day for...
So, when we left our intrepid hero, one Mr. Ricki Walker, back on May 27, 2010, the court had ruled, as I phrased it on Mandelman Matters at the time, that MERS could not foreclose and Citibank could...
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We’re Just Not Going to Fix the Foreclosure Crisis in Court
A couple of years ago (and quite a few times since then), I wrote an article saying that we were not going to win this battle to help homeowners at risk of foreclosure in the courts. I pointed out...
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Former SIGTARP Neil Barofsky – The Last Honest Man in Washington – A...
HERE HE IS! He could very well be the last honest man in Washington, but he’s certainly one of the last. Former Special Inspector General for TARP, Neil Barofsky, is flat out my hero. In his role at...
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What’s the difference between Spain and the USA? Empatía y sentido común. Sí,...
This past week BBC News reported that a woman in northern Spain, Amaia Egana, 53, a former politician jumped to her death from her fourth floor apartment… just as officials were arriving to evict...
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Homeowners: Start Your Emails… This is Your Chance for $50 Billion Principal...
Homeowners have a chance right now to make their views about government not doing enough to help those with underwater mortgages heard in Washington D.C. I’m not saying it will be our only...
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View from Inside the Financial Crisis with Former Treasury Chief Economist...
THIS IS A MUST HEAR! In December of 2006, academic economist Phillip Swagel, after serving as chief of staff and senior economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers and as an economist...
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Foreclosures Impact One in 10 Children in this Country Today, Report Shows
A report authored by Julia Isaacs of the Brookings Institute titled, “The Ongoing Impact of Foreclosures on Children,” has pointed out, among other things, that foreclosures in this country now...
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The Discovery of Robo-Signing – Memorable Moments from the Foreclosure Crisis
The Discovery of Robo-Signing By now the term “robo-signing” has practically become a household word. But it wasn’t always that way. Just a few years ago no one had ever heard the term before. So,...
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IBANEZ & BACK: Attorney Glenn Russell Back in Front of the Mass Supreme Court...
Massachusetts Attorney Glenn Russell, that’s him in the center of the picture above… sorry about the quality, I took it myself with my iPhone, when we were both attending Max Gardner’s special weekend...
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GUEST POST: Don’t Be Concerned Martin Is Dead Wrong, by Michael Pines
So, this morning I posted an article about the Glaski decision, which I first wrote about just after it became a “published decision” last August. In my article this morning I wrote about the Glaski...
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NOW AVAILABLE: The RMBS Trust/Modification Analysis Report for Homeowners
If you’re applying for a loan modification, or you’re in mediation, or if you’ve already applied for a loan modification and feel as if you’re now on the Loan Modification-Go-Round, then you know that...
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Borrowers Facing Foreclosure Should be Dancing in the Streets Over ‘X’ and...
Four years ago this January, I was invited to speak at the American Bar Association’s (“ABA”) Conference on Consumer Financial Services, which was being held that year in Park City, Utah. In...
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AZ Rep. Seel Drops Amendment Requiring Pre-Foreclosure Chain of Title, 2 Days...
Remember Arizona’s Senate Bill 1259 that would have required servicers to produce a declaration that they had the proper chain of title prior to foreclosing on someone’s home? You know… the one that...
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KPHO Channel 5 Arizona Airs Story on Rep. Seel’s Principal Reduction
Well, if you remember the story on Mandelman Matters last week about Arizona’s Rep. Carl Seel who received roughly a $100,000 PRINCIPAL REDUCTION on his $190,000 mortgage two days before he was to...
View ArticleA Time for Good Judgement-The Jury is In and We NEED Judges to Modify the Way...
My Latest Article in The Niche Report: A Time For Good Judgement The Jury is In and We Need Judges to Modify the Way Banks Behave
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BREAKING NEWS: Amendment Allowing Judges to Modify Mortgages to be Included...
BREAKING NEWS EXCLUSIVE: An amendment allowing judges to modify mortgages on primary residences for homeowners in bankruptcy will finally find a home as part of the Wall Street Reform and Consumer...
View ArticleEMERGENCY!! PLEASE TAKE ACTION RIGHT NOW… SAVE BANKRUPTCY REFORM!
JUST MINUTES AGO… House Rules Committee agreed to allow the bankruptcy modification amendment THAT WOULD ALLOW JUDGES TO MODIFY MORTGAGES to be considered on the House floor as an amendment to the...
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CONTACT CONGRESS: Support Judges Modifying Mortgages NOW! Otherwise, It’s All...
SCROLL TO BOTTOM FOR BUTTON THAT MAKES IT SIMPLE TO CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS. YOU DON’T EVEN NEED TO KNOW HIS OR HER NAME… JUST YOUR NAME, ADDRESS AND ZIP CODE. In the next 2-3 years,...
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CONGRESS: It’s Not About Right and Left Anymore… It’s About Right and Wrong.
On Thursday afternoon, when Melissa Bean, a Democrat from Illinois, stood in the way of the Walt Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which was introduced on the floor of the House of...
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The Care Bair – FDIC’s Sheila Bair Wants Principal Reductions from Banks With...
First posted in December 2009,… but re-posted at reader’s request. I’ve had a love-hate relationship going with FDIC Chair, Sheila Bair since 2006. In case you don’t remember, Sheila was the Bush...
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