Split: The Note and the Deed of Trust (Redux)

The Note and Mortgage are split in judicial states the same as the Note and Deed of Trust in non-judicial states.

Split: The Note and the Deed of Trust (Redux)

by Daniel Edstrom

The Note and Mortgage are split in judicial states the same as the Note and Deed of Trust in non-judicial states.

The first issue is that the note was sold in 2005 but the Deed of Trust appears to have been left behind.  For the uninitiated, if the Note and Deed of Trust are split, this causes a nullity.  A nullity means the security interest is lost and the debt becomes unsecured.  In securitization this is standard operating procedure and is one of the issues that we are left to face.  Upwards of 60,000,000 homes may be unencumbered leaving those who own the notes on these houses with no power of sale.  And more considering MERS wasn’t the only party involved in splitting the note from the security instrument.

Who owns these loans if they are unsecured?  That was the whole purpose of creating the securitization diagram in the first place.

The result?  More questions, few answers. Continue reading “Split: The Note and the Deed of Trust (Redux)”

CNBC Mortgage Meltdown

Homeowner Dan Edstrom spent one year trying to find out who owned his mortgage. He describes his quest to CNBC’s Michelle Caruso-Cabrera.

Homeowner Dan Edstrom spent one year trying to find out who owned his mortgage. He describes his quest to CNBC’s Michelle Caruso-Cabrera.

source http://classic.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1653356156&play=1

Obligations and Defaults

We now jump ahead in the story and skip all the details of securitization including when, if and how your loan was allegedly transferred into the mortgage loan pool (the securitization trust).

If you haven’t heard of John Courson,

I want to change that.

John is the President and CEO of the Mortgage Bankers Association.

by Daniel Edstrom

Mr. Courson believes that it is a moral imperative to keep your financial obligations.  If you haven’t seen the video here http://www.thedailyshow.com/, you should.

Now let’s look at the alleged obligations and who is actually obligated.  This will lead us down the road to defaults and who is actually in default.  If you have a mortgage, you by default are the obligor because you are the one with the “obligation” to repay.  The note you signed is not the obligation but is evidence of the obligation.  The obligation arose when money was advanced by a “creditor” and you accepted the money.  So even if the note doesn’t exist there is still an obligation.  A default occurs when you fail to meet the terms of your obligation.  In days gone by this would be the end of the story, but thanks to Wall Street financial engineering we haven’t even reached the beginning yet.

We now jump ahead in the story and skip all the details of securitization including when, if and how your loan was allegedly transferred into the mortgage loan pool (the securitization trust).  We will just assume for the sake of argument that your loan is in the pool and that everything is A-OK, which is what the big banks with the robo-signing blues are saying anyway.  The SEC Filings are the governing documents and because they are typically a thousand pages of legal gibberish, you have to understand what words mean, such as “obligation” and “default”.  Let’s start with default.  Here is what US Bank, N.A., which acts as Trustee on thousands of securitized trusts says a default is (from http://www.usbank.com/cgi_w/cfm/commercial_business/products_and_services/corp_trust/terms_ps.cfm#d): Continue reading “Obligations and Defaults”

Rigging the Bids at Foreclosure Sales

United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner and Assistant Attorney General Christine Varney of the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division announced today that Anthony B. Ghio, 43, of Stockton, pleaded guilty today before United States District Judge Edward J. Garcia to conspiring to rig bids at public real estate foreclosure auctions held in San Joaquin County.

Department of Justice Press Release

For Immediate Release
April 16, 2010 United States Attorney’s Office
Eastern District of California
Contact: (916) 554-2700
Stockton Real Estate Executive Pleads Guilty to Bid Rigging at Auctions of Foreclosed Properties

SACRAMENTO, CA—United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner and Assistant Attorney General Christine Varney of the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division announced today that Anthony B. Ghio, 43, of Stockton, pleaded guilty today before United States District Judge Edward J. Garcia to conspiring to rig bids at public real estate foreclosure auctions held in San Joaquin County.

These charges arose from an ongoing federal antitrust investigation of fraud and bidding irregularities in certain real estate auctions in San Joaquin County. The investigation is being conducted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of California, the Antitrust Division’s San Francisco Office, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the San Joaquin County District Attorney’s Office.

Continue reading “Rigging the Bids at Foreclosure Sales”

Just When You Thought You Knew Something About Mortgage Securitizations

Dan Edstrom is a guy who is in the right place at the right time. His profession? He performs securitization audits (Reverse Engineering and Failure Analysis) for a company called DTC-Systems.

We thank the guys from zerohedge.com for this article!

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Just When You Thought You Knew Something About Mortgage Securitizations

by williambanzai7

Dan Edstrom is a guy who is in the right place at the right time.

His profession? He performs securitization audits (Reverse Engineering and Failure Analysis) for a company called DTC-Systems.

The typical audit includes numerous diagrams including the following:

  1. Transaction Parties and Flow (similar to the chart below, but much easier to understand)
  2. Note exchanged for a bond Foreclosure parties
  3. Priority of Payments from the Security Instrument (Mortgage, Deed of Trust, Security Deed or Mortgage Deed)
  4. Priority of Payments from the Pooling and Servicing Agreement

This diagram shows that they are not following the borrowers instructions in the security instrument Continue reading “Just When You Thought You Knew Something About Mortgage Securitizations”

Securitization: What is it?

The idea behind securitization is that a lender can make a loan and immediately sell the loan so that their capital is not tied up for 30 years. In reality it doesn’t quite work this way.

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The idea behind securitization is that a lender can make a loan and immediately sell the loan so that their capital is not tied up for 30 years.  In reality it doesn’t quite work this way.

In the classic securitization example, a company that originates loans sets up an agreement with a warehouse lender (GMAC, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, etc).  The agreement typically provides that the warehouse lender will provide the capital for the loan to the originator and the originator will provide the loan to the warehouse lender for securitization.

Continue reading “Securitization: What is it?”

Yesteryear

It used to be that when a homeowner took out a mortgage, the bank held the paper.

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It used to be that when a homeowner took out a mortgage, the bank held the paper.

If you had questions or needed help you simply contacted the bank.

The bank held the note and mortgage on-site and could produce this paper if they needed to payoff, foreclose or sell the loan.

When the loan was sold the note was endorsed and the mortgage assigned.

The new owner of the loan actually took possession of the note, mortgage and the assignment.

The assignment was property recorded in the county and the appropriate taxes and fees were paid for the transfer.

No other party was present and the homeowner was not confused as to who owned the loan.

Those were much simpler times.

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Please stay tuned for posts discussing these issues in detail.   Currently we have a Securitization Workshop for Attorneys scheduled for December 11, 2010 in Auburn, CA (near Sacramento).

This is an 8 hour conference geared for attorneys, paralegals, loan auditors and others who need to understand how Wall Street created these complex transactions.

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