DarkSteven
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ORIGINAL: DarkSteven If I've read it right, there is a new law requiring a foreclosing entity to read its own paperwork and affrim that it is correct prior to filing for an instant judgment. I wouldn;t consider this so much a victory for justice as much as one for decency. Not so much a beatdown as a "tut tut"! I had not thought of that. Like why wouldn't one read the paperwork they sign? That's the whole point, hunky. The mortgage companies thought they had found a source of easy money. As long as real estate prices rose, their collateral (the house itself) meant that they could not lose money in making loans. So the mortgage companies: 1. Sold mortgages to people that were not creditworthy. In one of the more egregious cases, a gardener making minimum wage was given a mortgage on a home worth some $700k (IIRC). 2. Forced appraisers to make fraudulent appraisals to justify loans. 3. As tazzy said above, had people sign hundreds of papers a day, if not an hour, stating that they had read the papers. 4. Spread the risk by slicing and dicing the loan instruments in collateralized debt obligations (CDOs). 5. Got risk agencies to issue AAA ratings on these pieces of crap CDOs. In other words, they committed massive fraud. When the crap hit the fan and RE prices fell, they got the government to bail them out using tax money. Yep, you and I and all of us paid off the criminals for the crimes they committed, so they could continue to earn seven figure salaries. The latest problem is that these greedy criminals have no way to deal with foreclosures on the scale they have caused. So they're trying to continue business as usual - rush things through without doing proper paperwork or looking at what they've done - and they were told that they have to actually DO THEIR JOB.
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