All Posts Tagged With: "settlement"
RealtyTrac: Foreclosure Activity Slumps 14% — But Rise Likely In 2012
Foreclosure filings in November fell 14% when compared with last year according to the latest Realtytrac survey. Foreclosure filings include default notices, scheduled auctions and bank repossessions. In total, 224,394 homes received foreclosure filings. The filing decline may seem like good news and surely it’s a welcome relief for many families, however behind the lower [...]
15Dec2011 | Peter G. Miller | 0 comments | Continued
American Chopper Vs. Jesse James: Who Really Wins?
The stage is set for the most-publicized motorcycle build-off in recent memory. The two-night battle to be shown live from the Hard Rock Cafe in Las Vegas will feature three well-televised bike builders, Paul Teutul Sr. with Orange County Chopper, Paul Teutul, Jr. from PJD designs and Jessie James, the once-host of Discovery’s Monster Garage [...]
28Nov2011 | Peter G. Miller | 19 comments | Continued
October Foreclosure Activity Down 31 percent, Says RealtyTrac
Foreclosure activity remains hounded by robo-signing disputes. The result is that October foreclosure filings were down 31 percent when compared with a year ago according to RealtyTrac, the leading online marketplace for foreclosures. The company said that foreclosure filings for October — default notices, scheduled auctions and bank repossessions – were reported on 230,678 U.S. properties in October, [...]
10Nov2011 | Peter G. Miller | 0 comments | Continued
American Chopper — Foreclosure Vs. No Foreclosure
So which is it: Was the Orange County Chopper world headquarters foreclosed or not? The answer as derived from the American Chopper TV show and public information is very simple: Both. Let’s start with foreclosure. It’s plain that a foreclosure action was initiated by the lender, the GE Commercial Finance Business Property Corp. The matter [...]
7Nov2011 | Peter G. Miller | Comments Off | Continued
American Chopper — Family Values, Family Conflict
In the usual scheme of things a foreclosure is a pretty big deal, but on the American Chopper TV series it’s not much more than a distraction. Instead of mortgages, the bigger issue is family dynamics — in this case a father and sons with a lot of visible and verbal collisions, inter-personal disputes which [...]
4Oct2011 | Peter G. Miller | 0 comments | Continued
American Chopper: Why Foreclosure Had To Happen
Like millions of property owners, Orange County Choppers has felt the sting of foreclosure and could be moving to smaller quarters. It’s a “business decision” says the senior Paul Teutel, speaking on the downsizing episode of the American Chopper TV series. You could see this coming for much of the past year. In November 2010, [...]
13Sep2011 | Peter G. Miller | 10 comments | Continued
Morgan Stanley To Pay $102 Million For Mortgage Role In Massachusetts
Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley has announced that Wall Street titan Morgan Stanley will pay $102 million to settle for its role in creating a market for subprime mortgages in the state. The settlement includes $58 million to roughly 1,000 homeowners. “This has become an all-too-familiar pattern in which the deceptive practices of Wall Street [...]
25Jun2010 | Peter G. Miller | 0 comments | Continued
FTC Does Mortgage Loan Audits
Yesterday I criticized the Federal Trade Commission‘s view of mortgage loan audits. The idea was not to defend fraudulent loan audit practices but to say that the FTC did not provide an alternative for borrowers who face what may be unjustified and overblown mortgage claims. I said the public should use licensed and experienced attornies [...]
8Jun2010 | Peter G. Miller | 0 comments | Continued
Can We Have A Paperless Real Estate Closing?
Given the widespread use of electronic devices for just about everything — and given the growing volume of ecommerce — it’s not unreasonable to ask if we can have paperless closings, events sealed with electronic signatures. For the moment and most-likely for a long time to come the answer is no. The problem is not [...]
14May2010 | Peter G. Miller | 0 comments | Continued
What Makes A Foreclosure Settlement Different?
When you purchase a foreclosed property from a lender the transfer process is largely the same as if the purchase involved property from a typical seller. Largely the same — but not the same. A closing, settlement or escrow is merely an accounting of who owes what to whom. Among the interests represented at the [...]
15Feb2010 | Peter G. Miller | 0 comments | Continued
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