DomKen
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ORIGINAL: NeedToUseYou That's crazy stuff. Essentially, it is saying, if I'm reading it correct, if you have a mortgage and it says MERS as the holder, they essentially can't foreclose, ever, if the Kansas interpretation holds, which it read like it should. Thus, if this takes off, the banks are toast for writing bad contracts and liable. In other words complete unstoppable banking collapse. If my interpretation is correct and the article is correct. I will have to watch this. I'm not familiar with that stuff, I've never even had a mortgage through a bank, only through personal loans. Basically the Kansas SC ruled that MERS, since it isn't actually the note holder, cannot foreclose on properties. It is possible that someone could acquire full legal ownership of the note and seek foreclosure but at this point in Kansas MERS is no longer going to be able to show up with documentation saying they securitized the loan and have standing to foreclose. Some banks could be on the hook for billions in loans that they securitized but its unclear if the security holders would have standing to try and require the banks to repay them.
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