

House approves federal whistleblower protections When a bank makes a new loan, it can quickly sell it off to investors at a relatively high price, analyst Dick Bove of Rochdale Securities said.īanks are trying to make up for the reduced margins by making more loans Federal Reserve plans to buy up to $40 billion of mortgage-backed securities each month for as long as it takes for unemployment to fall.īanks benefit from the fees they get from closing loans, but also from the fact that investors want more mortgages than lenders can easily make. One of the few businesses working well for the biggest banks these days is the same one that got them in trouble just five years ago: mortgages. Long toxic, mortgages now seen boosting U.S.
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Videos on: Voir Dire, How to Offer Documentary Evidence, How to AdmitĮvidence for Trial, How to Make Objections and Laying Proper Foundation for Exhibits Without title, the homeowner will find it difficult to do anything with the property, such as negotiate a loan modification, short sale, or refinance a loan, Wiener said. “Unless the trustees voluntarily transfer the properties back to the homeowners - execute and record a deed conveying the property - the homeowner is no longer the record title owner,” Wiener said. “This is going to be a huge mess for homeowners who transferred their properties,” said Boca Raton real estate attorney Marlyn Wiener. Scores of homeowners unsure how to get back title from trustsįor some, it was the last hope to keep their homes and so they listened to the pitch rather than their gut. Servicers are also reporting these phony extinguishments of debt to the IRS as if they were actual debt forgiveness, so the consumers will have an uphill battle proving that the banks have done themĭirty by misreporting for fun and profit. Morgenson has unearthed multiple instances where the banks have sent out cheery letters saying they are wiping out consumers’ debts, when those debts in fact are long gone. The most egregious version is the one fingered by Morgenson, that of debts that were already erased in bankruptcy. But the banks look to be taking debts that were uncollectable, from a legal perspective, and claiming credit nevertheless.

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