Foreclosure..FREE RIDE: 3 Years

Great  Story......

Source: CNN MoneyWednesday, December 28th, 2011, 10:58 am

Delinquent borrowers facing foreclosure are learning that they can stay in their homes for years, as long as they're willing to put up a fight.

Among the tactics: Challenging the bank's actions, waiting to file paperwork right up until the deadline, requesting the lender dig up original paperwork or, in some extreme cases, declaring bankruptcy.

Read the full story >>

Just like I've been telling folks for over a year now...

Dig in your feet &  fight.

Principal Reduction Will Solve The Housing Crisis ...

Are the geniuses that created this mess at the banks going to keep telling us how impossible this concept is when nothing they do even dents the problem, but actually continues to exacerbate it? Principal reduction will not only help us out of the housing crisis, but will stimulate the economy! 


This is a great article from Realty Times, written by Tanya Marchiol.


See this link for more info.....
   
   http://realtytimes.com/rtpages/20111202_principalreduction.htm

                                         


Sorry Readers & Fans (LOL),  I have been very busy working on Multi-Family deals and haven't written a Blog in almost a month.  If you have Apartments you want to SELL or BUY,  please contact me ASAP.


Sincerely,  Larry Tutino

CHASE BANK RUINED THEIR LIVES !!!

How Chase Ruined Lives of People Who Paid Off Their Mortgages

Matt Taibbi, in giving a well deserved thrashing to the banking industry’s Tokyo Rose, aka New York Fed director Kathryn Wylde, said:

[S]tealing is pretty much the worst thing that a bank can do — and these banks just finished the longest and most orgiastic campaign of stealing in the history of money.

Once you read the allegations in the cases included in this post, I strongly suspect you will agree that the “ruining lives” in the headline is not an exaggeration. And as important, these two cases, with very similar fact sets, also suggest that these abuses are not mere “mistakes”. These are clearly well established practices that Chase can’t be bothered to clean up, since cleaning them up costs money and letting them continue is more profitable.

Both cases took place in Alabama. In both cases, the borrowers had made every mortgage payment on time. One was a couple with three children, the Barnetts. The second is a widow, Besty Barlow, but her husband was still alive when this ugly saga started.

In both cases, the house burned down, The borrowers both had homeowners’ insurance.

Read more at... http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/08/how-chase-ruined-lives-of-people-who-paid-off-their-mortgages.html

In other words, this is the banking version of exploding Pintos. Ford did not fix the defect in its fuel tank design because they figured it would cost less to pay out the damages on claims for death and dismemberment than fix the design flaw. Similarly, Chase evidently figures it can bulldoze people, extract more fees from them by engaging in conduct that is unquestionably against the law (see the cases for details), and maybe once in a while it gets caught and has to write a big check.

Read more at... http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/08/how-chase-ruined-lives-of-people-who-paid-off-their-mortgages.html

UNSATISFIED WITH THE BANKS......

"Many homeowners who are still in home loans that were originated between 2006 and 2008 -- when home values peaked and credit standards were the most lax -- would like to refinance, but can’t because they either don’t have enough equity in their home due to falling home prices or their credit profile doesn’t meet today’s tougher standards," said David Lo, director of financial services at J.D. Power and Associates.

"This has become increasingly frustrating to homeowners and a big contributor to their dissatisfaction," said Lo. "They are unable to take advantage of interest rates that have declined to historic lows. The challenge for legislators and lenders is to find a way to help not only homeowners at risk of default, but also this increasingly frustrated group of homeowners who are caught in loans with unfavorable terms and no ability to change them," Lo said.

"Excellence in mortgage servicing revolves around minimizing problems and addressing them quickly and efficiently when they do occur," said Lo.

This report is from Realty Times online news at......

http://realtytimes.com/rtpages/20110818_mortgage.htm

I Really Dislike Banks - Now More Than Ever

A brilliant businessman I know wrote to me today. Read what he said about Banks.........

Hey Larry.

If you've been around me a while you know
I've always stayed away from banks for my
house investing business. In fact, with the
exception of the very first house I ever owned,
bought in 1988, I have not used a bank to buy
one SINGLE house. Short term or long term,
none of them. And that's a LOT of houses!

What I don't like about banks is that they are
difficult to deal with, and if you get near them
they get out their scope and give you a full on
"financialoscopy"!

My dislike has grown to include their child
like behavior on short sales and REO's.
Resale restrictions, hoops after hoops... I
say GET REAL. They, and the illustrious
idiots in Congress, created the mess the RE
market is in and now they want to flog us
when we try and help clean it up?

GRRRRR.

Then there's the paperwork, MERS, and
all the problems with

* lending and servicing violations
* predatory lending
* mortgage fraud
* and 10 other issues that will be
discussed in detail on the training
I'm about to tell you about.

So I, and many others, walk around with
teeth clenched in anger towards banks.

B of A (which BTW does NOT stand for Bank
of America) and Wells Fargo are, by far, the 2
biggest offenders.

Well here's the good news. In my travels, and
in the circles I run in, I learned about a couple
of guys who put together a business, that is now
HUGE and that does nothing but help borrowers,
who are in, or about to be in foreclosure, or
who are upside down on their mortgages, get
justice. They actually put a hurting on the banks,
by looking at the situation and determining if
there are legal issues with their loans, and
then come down on the lenders legally.

It's called Foreclosure Justice. It's a smack
down and It's beautiful!


PS.
For the First time in history, Homeowners can now get:
* A big discount on their principal balance.
* Waived deficiency judgments.
* Deleted derogatory trade lines on their credit
* AND they can legally get cash proceeds
from their property even if they have no equity.

PPS.
This is NOT:
* Loan Modification
* Negotiating a Short Sale
* Loan Audit
* Loan Consultation
* Foreclosure Defense
* Foreclosure Rescue
* Credit Counseling/Credit Repair

If your family is in trouble with your home, you have to follow up with us. email ASAP

Sincerely, Larry - Blog Founder

HOMEOWNERS...BANKS STILL MAKING MISTAKES

Mortgage servicers have been using questionable foreclosure procedures for nearly a half decade and twice this year, federal agencies busted mortgage servicers for robo-signing and other foreclosure shenanigans.

After reviewing 14 large mortgage servicers in the fourth quarter of 2010, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), Federal Reserve, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), and the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS) found what regulators described a "pattern of misconduct and negligence related to deficient practices in residential mortgage loan servicing and foreclosure processing."

On June 30, federal regulators said banks that determine problems in their foreclosure processes must take "immediate" corrective action, and then gave them until September 30 to take "immediate" action, regarding:

• The practice of "dual tracking" simultaneously engaging a homeowner in a loan modification, while foreclosing on the property.

• Using robo-signing to finalize foreclosures.

• Losing and misplacing documents, not keeping records of contact with homeowners, and asking homeowners to repeatedly submit the same documents.

In an earlier April 2011 report "Interagency Review of Foreclosure Policies and Practices" regulators also found "unsafe and unsound practices and violations of applicable federal and state laws."

REFIs are Getting Tougher

Refinancing underwater

While hundreds of thousands of mortgage borrowers have been able
to squat in their homes without making a single mortgage payment
in months or even years, many responsible homeowners who have
good credit and consistently meet their monthly obligations
haven't been able to refinance in order to avoid losing their
homes. Many of today's homeowners purchased their homes during a
time of easy credit, when mortgage products, like interest-only
loans and option adjustable-rate mortgages were issued to the
marginally qualified. And many were told that -- if they made
their payments faithfully -- they could easily refinance out of
these products into affordable fixed-rate loans once the payments
started to balloon. But that day has never come for some
borrowers -- no matter how good their payment record or credit
score. Many lenders are refusing to refinance underwater
mortgages -- loans that are higher than the value of the home --
because it would mean big losses for them if the borrower
defaults, said Mark Zandi, chief economist for Moody's Analytics.
According to data submitted to federal regulators and analyzed
by the Wall Street Journal, nearly 27% of mortgage applicants
were denied mortgages in 2010, up from 23.5% a year earlier.

About the author:
Chris McLaughlin is widely known as America’s top
Real Estate Attorney and Investment Consultant.

Chris is one of my favorite and accurate Authors on Real Estate.

Thank you, Larry

WHAT DID HE SAY OVER 200 YEARS AGO ????

IT's TIME TO CONFRONT THE BANKS......

The BANKS or the FEDERAL RESERVE must be held responsible for this recession/depression!!!!!

Thomas Jefferson said in 1802: 'I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property - until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.'

Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826) was the third President of the United States (1801–1809) and the principal author of the Declaration of ...

Short biography from the official Whitehouse site.
www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/thomasjefferson -

My opinion................

We all know that Thomas Jefferson was one of the most intelligent men that has ever lived. Easily ranking with Winston Churchill, Nelson Mandela, Abraham Lincoln or George Washington a government leader.

When will we learn to listen to our elders??????

Are we, today strong enough to make the changes necessary to our over domineering banking system???

Will we, the AMERICAN PEOPLE continue to allow our financial system to run us into the ground?????

Why do we allow our government to run our finances in a way that we would never

run our family's finances. In fact, we would lose our homes and businesses if we ran our

own finances that way!!!!!

I SAY.......STOP NOW ....... TO OUR POLITICIANS. WHY DO THEY THINK THEY CAN CONTINUALLY BE REELECTED??????

Every time you vote, check the politicians financial record first. Over the course of many elections we will eventually get the financially irresponsible politicians replaced.

We will stop passing this ENORMOUS DEBT onto our children.

Thank You for reading. Larry Tutino, Blog Founder

WHAT NOW?????

Foreclosure Overview & Foreclosure Process

What is Foreclosure?

Foreclosure is a process that allows a lender to recover the amount owed on a defaulted loan by selling or taking ownership (repossession) of the property securing the loan. The foreclosure process begins when a borrower/owner defaults on loan payments (usually mortgage payments) and the lender files a public default notice, called a Notice of Default or Lis Pendens. The foreclosure process can end one of four ways:

1. The borrower/owner reinstates the loan by paying off the default amount during a grace period determined by state law. This grace period is also known as pre-foreclosure.
2. The borrower/owner sells the property to a third party during the pre-foreclosure period. The sale allows the borrower/owner to pay off the loan and avoid having a foreclosure on his or her credit history.
3. A third party buys the property at a public auction at the end of the pre-foreclosure period.
4. The lender takes ownership of the property, usually with the intent to re-sell it on the open market. The lender can take ownership either through an agreement with the borrower/owner during pre-foreclosure, via a short sale foreclosure or by buying back the property at the public auction. Properties repossessed by the lender are also known as bank-owned or REO properties (Real Estate Owned by the lender).

Most of us have never faced Foreclosure prior to 2007. Most of my Clients have never experienced Foreclosure. This article is meant to be a FORECLOSURE 101.

For more info or help, email Larry, Blog Founder anytime at

FORECLOSURE FRAUD: The homeowner nightmares continue

WHOA !!!!!

Read this link below for the real news on Banks and their BS........

http://www.bringbankstojustice.com/foreclosure-fraud-the-homeowner-nightmares-continue/

the big banks have routinely committed fraud in their foreclosure filings and their records of how much people owe are too often wrong.

Be sure and check out my comment

at the bottom of this article.....

Here it is........

Larry Says: Your comment is awaiting moderation.

I regularly talk to Clients facing foreclosure. A constant is that they have tried to work it out with the Bank. But after researching REO to investor sale prices, I can see that the Bank make a bout 10% more by throwing the homeowner out, reselling and tacking the “defecient balance” onto the past homeowner anyways.

Great that banks make profit but why do they have to take advantage of the hard working homeowners??? A Pastor’s wife (a widow) is losing her home after 25 years. Are you kidding me??? I know of dozens of stories like this.

Oh yeah, and we are the ones paying to bailout these ripoffs at the Banks. Prosecute whomever is the thief.

From Larry Tutino, Founder of this Blog

YOUR FORECLOSURE "RIGHTS"

Knowing Your Foreclosure Rights
Posted Tuesday, March 30, 2010 by admin Filed under: Foreclosures
Understanding what your foreclosure rights are and are not is an important part of being able to stop the foreclosure process. But where can you go to understand what your foreclosure rights are? What determines what those rights are?
There are a couple of different places that you can go to start to understand what your rights are in foreclosure. A good place to start is in your loan documentation. That describes, at least in part, what happens when you default on your loan with the mortgage company. While it does not describe in detail what happens in foreclosure, it at least gives you a starting place.
Another good place to go is your local or state resources. Every state has different foreclosure laws. Those laws greatly affect the timeline of your foreclosure and what your foreclosure rights are. In some states, these laws lean heavily towards the mortgage company and in others they are more in favor of you. Find out what those laws are so that you can do your best to protect your rights. Call your city, county or state to find out where you can go to know what the foreclosure laws are for your area.
Your rights are determined by a combination of what your loan documentation says and what the foreclosure laws are in your state. Look at your loan documentation closely and do the best you can to figure out what it means. If you cannot figure out what it means, find someone who can help you.
Once you understand that and the foreclosure laws in your state, you will have a much better idea of what your foreclosure rights are, how quickly your foreclosure process will move, and what you can do at each step of the process to try and stop it. Find out more at http://www.stopping-home-foreclosure.com/ForeclosureRights.html

Great info to help Slow down or STOP the Bank.

From Larry, Blog Founder

BANKS GETTING BEAT UP !!!!!

It is unfortunate that the lawyers are getting paid by both sides (whats new?), but the Banks deserve this one. Read this great article by Harold Lear......

All foreclosure efforts on B of A and Chase homes involved in the suit are suspended.

Some of the nation's top trial lawyers have banned together and are secretly beating the banks. These are the lawyers who previously represented these very banks; the lawyers who -- for years -- have gone to Court and "ended the madness" for many clients; the lawyers who know their way around the courthouses better than anyone. Already, these lawyers have filed a mass joinder case in 2009 that remains pending against Bank of America (and Countrywide) and includes thousands of Californians. This case is now going national. These lawyers have invoked laws and procedures the banks were previously unaware of, and Bank of America is getting beat at their own game because of it. Two weeks ago, the Bank was forced to admit that it had been defrauding the government in foreclosing on mortgages nationwide. Furthermore, on October 4, 2010, the Honorable Manuel Real of the United States District Court called the Bank's primary argument "absurd" and kicked the Bank out of Federal Court. The case is now proceeding in the trial court, and the mass joinder of plaintiffs from around the Country is expanding. It may be that the Bank is unable to recover under any of their promissory notes, or that the Bank has made other errors that will cause other penalties to be levied against them.

Currently pending or contemplated to be file in the Superior Court of California, in the County of Los Angeles are the following cases: Bank of America, GMAC, JP Morgan/Chase, WaMu, Wells Fargo, Wachovia, OneWest Bank, IndyMac, Citibank and other lenders.

This is obviously excellent for homeowners but can also assist attorneys and loan modification companies as they can use the litigation as an escape from the loan mods.

As of 11/08 the attorney's have decided to offer this to the general public, as a result of my relationship with one of the law offices. I have been afforded the opportunity to assist in marketing this program. If you wish information regarding these stunning developments, or should you wish to be considered for involvement in this action, please call Harold Lear 858-945-1047, Client Relationship Manager

FYI: todate- 1 home free and clear and 9 NODs torn up by the court, all foreclosure efforts on B of A homes involved in the suit are suspended.


Please see link: http://mvipps.com/v-why.htmBy Harold Lear, Client Relationship Manager at Real Estate Solutions That Work