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Predatory Lending by Mortgage Brokers Magnify the Foreclosure Crisis

by Moe Bedard

Many of these OC brokers operated for years in the wide open and most recently (from 2005-2007), selling nothing but negative amortization mortgages (AKA Pay Option ARM or Pick a Pay) throughout the Golden State to borrowers that should have never, ever been placed in that loan.

$20-30,000 commission checks for a loan in 2004-2005 were as common as foreclosures are today….

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