1. Since the rescission is effective upon mailing, the loan contract, note, and mortgage are void (not…

Bipartisan bills rein in GSE CEO pay, provide formal TRID grace period

The House Financial Services Committee approved a slate of bipartisan bills directly impacting the mortgage and housing finance space Wednesday.

They now face a vote before the full House of Representatives.

“We seek to simplify the rules, reduce complexity and compliance costs.  Complicated and costly regulations serve as barriers that too often keep small competitors off the playing field,” said Chairman Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas. “With regulatory relief, we can level that playing field between big corporations and small businesses and create a healthier economy.”

Among the bills passed were:

H.R. 3192, the “Homebuyers Assistance Act”

H.R. 3192 delays enforcement of a CFPB regulation surrounding the home buying process to allow more time for the CFPB to ensure purchasers and buyers are not unfairly harmed by this new regulation.

H.R. 3192 passed 45-13.

H.R. 1210, the “Portfolio Lending…

Outlined in today’s Wall Street Journal:

A few weeks after Hillary Clinton was sworn in as secretary of state in early 2009, she was summoned to Geneva by her Swiss counterpart to discuss an urgent matter. The Internal Revenue Service was suing UBS AG to get the identities of Americans with secret accounts.

If the case proceeded, Switzerland’s largest bank would face an impossible choice: Violate Swiss secrecy laws by handing over the names, or refuse and face criminal charges in U.S. federal court.

Within months, Mrs. Clinton announced a tentative legal settlement—an unusual intervention by the top U.S. diplomat. UBS ultimately turned over information on 4,450 accounts, a fraction of the 52,000 sought by the IRS, an outcome that drew criticism from some lawmakers who wanted a more extensive crackdown.

From that point on, UBS’s engagement with the Clinton family’s charitable organization increased. Total donations by UBS to…

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The Eagles Master Association v. Bank of America

St. Andrews at the Eagles, Inc., appeals a final judgment of foreclosure in
favor of Bank of America.1 We reverse because the Bank failed to prove its standing.
On October 12, 2009, a residential foreclosure complaint was filed by BAC
Home Loans Servicing, L.P., formerly known as Countrywide Homes Loans Servicing,
L.P. The first count was to foreclose on a mortgage given by Marie Black; the second
count was to reestablish a lost note and mortgage. St. Andrews was named as a
defendant based on allegations that it might claim a subordinate interest or lien in the
property “by virtue of possible association liens and assessments.”
On the copies of the mortgage and note attached to the complaint, the
lender was identified as Countrywide Bank, FSB. Mortgage Electronic Registrations
Systems, Inc., commonly referred to as MERS, was named…

see http://www.wftv.com/news/news/local/osceola-foreclosure-report-author-holds-news-confe/nm79R/

Krieger is right about the fundamentals. While I have not reviewed his report, it appears from what I have heard about it that in contains misstatements and inaccuracies. BUT the idea that the foreclosures are largely a fraud upon homeowners and the Courts is well-founded.

The parties who are initiating the foreclosures are mostly servicers. They want the foreclosure so they can collect on advances and fees. But they have no right to foreclosure on those claims because they have no contract, no note, and no mortgage in which they have…

(Image courtesy of Fannie Mae)

It appears the post-recession mantra of mortgage lenders is “better safe than sorry.”

Despite pushes from the Federal Housing Finance Agencyand the Federal Housing Administration, many mortgage lenders are still applying additional credit overlays to loans delivered to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, a new survey of lenders showed.

The survey, conducted by Fannie Mae’s Economic & Strategic Research Group and based on responses from senior mortgage executives in May 2015, found that approximately 40% of lenders who deliver loans to the GSEs or Ginnie Mae reported applying credit overlays that are more stringent than what the GSEs or Ginnie Mae require.

Fannie Mae’s quarterly Mortgage Lender Sentiment Survey also found that 64% of lenders who deliver loans to the GSEs or Ginnie Mae said that credit overlays are applied on a “limited basis,” which is 20% or less of their loan…

Every day dozens of people call me asking for referrals to attorneys. I have tried everything I think of to get attorneys to sign up, give resumes, etc. All I want to do is set up something like an Angie’s list for foreclosure defense lawyers. If any of you have an idea about how to do this, even if it is your own venture, that will be fine. I’m not looking to make money on this. I just want to provide the service to people.

Please send email to gtchonors.llblog@gmail.com with some sort of business plan to set up a system where homeowners can get the help they need.

see http://www.newyorklawjournal.com/home/id=1202732820636/Appellate-Decision-Unwinds-Foreclosure-Purchase?mcode=1202615326010&curindex=2&slreturn=20150623125150

It’s procedure, stupid! That is the message coming out of several courts who are subjecting foreclosure actions to increasing scrutiny. They apparently are noticing that the facts are not as assumed in most cases and that the true facts are being papered over with instruments that appear facially valid. Now the long standing rule that a person who takes title with knowledge of litigation might not get title after all. In New York, title was unwound. The conclusions of the authors is what I said years ago. There is no way that continuing…

It could never happen again, right?

h/t 2020Crash.blogspot.com