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Homeowners Plead for Help from Abusive Mortgage Servicing

by Moe Bedard

Loan servicers act as middlemen between borrowers making mortgage payments and investors who own their loans.  It’s the loan servicing company that is responsible for  managing the loan. Though they play a crucial role in the subprime mortgage mess, they continue to have virtually no oversight. The mortgage servicing industry is currently unregulated, equating to [...]

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Mortgage servicers accused of preying on the people they’re supposed to help

by Moe Bedard

Billions of dollars the government is spending to help financially pressed homeowners avert foreclosure is passing through — and enriching — companies accused of preying on the people they’re supposed to help, an Associated Press investigation has found.
Foreclosure affects a persons life in many ways. Not only is the emotional strain difficult, but the financial [...]

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Attention Abused Homeowners: Please contact the FTC and report your mortgage servicer

by Moe Bedard

Are you trying to get loan modification or short sale assistance from your mortgage servicers and all you are getting  is used and abused? Has your mortgage servicer or their employees lied to you? Does your mortgage servicer keep losing your paperwork and is giving you the 2-3-6  plus month run around? Are you afraid of losing your [...]

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Wells & Wachovia Suck! The Mortgage Servicing Follies Continue…

by Moe Bedard

Wells Fargo CEO Stumpf worries that economy could cancel out his efforts to revive Wachovia and deal with toxic loans.
He should be worried and the investors that own these loans  should be more than worried. They should be in court suing Stumpf and these idiots for incompetent mortgage servicing practices. I have been writing about this [...]

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Obama’s Foreclosure Dilema: Where’s the Accountability?

by Moe Bedard

Mortgage servicing is at the heart of the foreclosure crisis. Few people understand the role that servicers play as opposed to the institutions that provide loans (banks and lenders). When critical aspects of problems are not well understood the probability that problems will linger on increases exponentially.

Servicers do not merely accept payments from borrowers, they also play a major role in deciding when to foreclose on homes. As intermediaries between the borrower and the institutions that lend money, servicers clearly play a critical role in the solution to the ongoing crisis.

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The #1 Reason Why Loan Modifications Are Not Working: Mortgage Servicers Suck!

by Moe Bedard

Many people in the media and our government are trying to figure out why loan modifications are not working and it is really quite simple to figure out. Yet, here we are almost two years into this foreclosure mess and it’s as if we are all stuck on stupid.
One doesn’t have to look further than [...]

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Missing Mortgage Notes and Deceptive Mortgage Servicing: Wall Street Shell Game 101

by Moe Bedard

Millions of Americans are facing foreclosure and many have already suffered their foreclosure fates without ever even exploring options to save their homes. Most all homeowners just accept the fact that they have no other options but to leave and become a “renter” again.
What if you didn’t have to leave and all you had to [...]

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Schumer decried the lenders’ tactics as amounting to “death by a thousand fees.”

by Moe Bedard

New York Senator and Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts, Charles Schumer has decried ‘Death by A Thousand Fees’; suggests better deterrence, stiffer penalties, and more disclosure to end ‘Vulture Mentality’ of mortgage lenders and servicers.
Can everyone say, “predatory servicing?” Welcome to mortgage servicing 101.
Mortgage Servicing Chapter 1 – [...]

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H&R Block Closes Sale of Option One Mortgage Servicing Business

by Moe Bedard

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – H&R Block Inc. (NYSE: HRB) today announced that it closed the sale of the mortgage loan servicing business of its Option One Mortgage Corporation (“OOMC”) subsidiary effective April 30, 2008.  As previously announced, the purchaser was American Home Mortgage Servicing, Inc. (“American Home”), an affiliate of WL Ross & Co. LLC. [...]

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