See Asset Securitization Comptroller’s Handbook
The basic model we have developed tracks the money and with that, the intent behind seemingly irrational decisions.
For example, why would any lender seeking to make a profit grant a loan whose interest payments were greater than the gross income of the borrower? That is not taking a risk. That is betting on a sure thing. The loan will fail. It follows that if the parties creating these loans had a betting vehicle to make money based upon the guaranteed failure of a specific pool of loans, the premiums paid for such a bet would be chump change compared to the payoff.
For example, assume a loan for $250,000 with a 10 (10%) percent interest which means that the Note says the borrower will be paying $25,000 per year in interest, plus principal, taxes and insurance. Further assume that the borrower has a gross income of $20,000. Unless the borrower hits the lottery or an inheritance we know as a certainty that this loan and all others like will fail as soon as the teaser payment of $300 per month is reset to normal amortization.
First the intermediary securitizers go out and sell the $25,000 interest income to a hedge fund or pension fund seeking to get a couple of points over the money market rates. If the Hedge Fund is satisfied with 5% return, rated AAA (investment grade) and “insured” then the Hedge Fund will purchase $500,000 in 5% mortgage backed bonds yielding the same $25,000. Note that funding of the loan is only $250,000 while the Wall Street underwriters have pocketed the balance ($250,000) of the $500,000 invested by the pension fund or hedge fund. That is a $250,000 profit on a $250,000 loan. Get it? Of course the essential strategy here is to make absolutely certain that the hedge fund never meets the borrower and vica versa. Imagine the attitude of a hedge fund manager who finds out that his $500,000 bought a $250,000 mortgage.
Now in order to cover the difference between the amount invested and the amount funded, they must purchase a “bet” on the base loan of $250,000 and then a naked “bet” on the $250,000 that was not funded (except into the underwriter’s pocket). AIG (among many others) was more than happy to accommodate since they couldn’t pay off any of these bets anyway and were just collecting premiums. While there are numerous ways of betting the principal bet of choice was the credit default swap, which was excluded from regulation under a 1998 law passed by congress. The players were planning this a long time before all this mess surfaced.
Now assume that the underwriter is intentionally setting up some pools that are weighted extra heavily with the bad loans. This presents an opportunity they could not pass up. If you knew that a horse was going to break a leg mid way through the race and you had the ability to bet on that how many bets would you place on the that horse losing? ANSWER: as many as you could if you really knew for sure. That is precisely what happened on Wall Street. Certain pools were weighted extra heavily with loans that could not perform. Everyone piled in with the purchase of Credit Default Swaps betting against those pools (at the same time they were selling to hedge funds as investors on one end and homeowners as investors on the other end of the securitization chain). Goldman Sachs reversed position in 2006. They stopped creating the pools and started buying insurance on pools of assets that never involved them. They made a killing because AIG and others were given the money (courtesy of Secretary Paulson, ex CEO of Goldman) to make good on those bets.
The relevance of this to foreclosure defense and offense is that the intermediaries not only knew, they intended the loans to fail — even the good loans that were in bad pools. Those loans HAD to fail in order for them to make a killing. If the loans were somehow saved, then the money spent on premiums would have been a loss and the stock of the investment banks would have plummeted permanently.
Which brings us to loan modifications. If the loans are successfully modified the insurance doesn’t pay off. So the money they expect to make evaporates. Hence they have left the modifications in the hands of servicers who have no right to modify a loan with the idea that the whole modification idea turns out to be a bust for reasons that nobody understood at the time — except now you do.
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Can someone assist on urgent situation to demonstrate to judge pass through certificates and other issues with securitization of loans?
This is published here over and over again – – was the certificate issued under a true sale according to FASB and GAAP guidelines. Was there any controlling interest held by the seller? Was the transfer separate from delivery and if so was it triggered by a foreclosure sale? If so the sale will fail and the transfer occurred only at your expense in a foreclosure.
MSOLIMAN
Msoliman@borrowerhotline.com
Msoliman@borrowerhotline.com
Can someone assist on urgent situation to demonstrate to judge PASS THROUGH CERTIFICATES and other issues with securitization of loans.
Here is the plaintiff LASALLE BANK N.A. as Trustee for MORGAN STANLEY MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2006-9AR
Thank you for a really prompt reply…..
this is exactly called “GAMBLING ‘ by WALL STREET. intentionally created to defraud the real investors and the homeowners. hope in the years to come, there will be another “MADOFF” IN JAIL. I GUESS I WILL BET FOR THAT. ANOTHER FRAUD IS HAPPENING NOW, OTHER THIRD PARTIES ARE FORECLOSING HOMES WITH THE COURT APPROVING IT. FRAUDULENT DOCUMENT WERE PRESENTED TO COURT, JUDGES AND THE LAWYERS ARE NOT REVIEWING THE DOCUMENTS AND MOST FORECLOSURE ENDED UP TO THE WRONG PARTIES. I CALLED IT A HIGHWAY ROBBERY .
Neil, thanks for your response.
I was mostly being facetious about the legality of Ms. Arnold’s “assistant secretary” duties. I don’t think it’s legal, but I don’t know the relevant law governing why it isn’t. I’m not sure I’d even know where to look.
I do think that a judge could be convinced that Arnold’s signatures are legal, however. I guess that’s what I really meant by “it’s all nice and legal.”
I have seen references on Living Lies to this phenomenon of one person purporting to wear many hats for many companies or actions of a similar nature, but as I recall there wasn’t a clear explanation re: the legality or illegality of it.
Then again, I tend to read LL late into the night and could very well have just missed the explanation due to tiredness.
Zurenarrh: Don’t be so sure it’s legal. It isn’t in most cases.
Wanted to comment on what Martin said, specifically:
“Here is the dichotomy, when the loan goes into default, MERS then physically assigns the mortgage using a warrentless without representation “Mortgage Assignment” which is filed by the Plaintiff’s attorney (where we must assume it is also prepared) and puports to assign the Note along with the mortgage.”
This is exactly what happened in my case. The same day my notice of sale was posted on foreclosure.com, MERS issued an assignment to BAC Home Loans, which was the first and only assignment recorded on my Deed of Trust (I go to the courthouse regularly now).
BAC also issued a document “re-constituting” Recontrust as the trustee. And of course there was the “Trustee’s Notice of Sale” rather than the far more typical (around here) “Substitute Trustee’s Notice of Sale.” Interestingly, all three of these documents–a) the MERS assignment, b) the BAC reconstitution of trustee, and c) the Trustee’s Notice of sale–were all signed by the same person, whose name is Jill Arnold.
As best I can tell, Jill actually works for Recontrust in their Texas office on Performance Drive, along with her faithful notary, Shameca Harrison, a duly licensed Texas notary. Ms. Arnold is an “assistant secretary” not only for Recontrust, but she apparently performs “assistant secretary” duties for MERS and BAC as well. Jill Arnold, acting in her supposed capacity as “assistant secretary” for all three companies–Recontrust, MERS, and BAC–authorized all three documents with her signature.
To me that smacks of something unsavory, but I’m sure it’s all nice and legal.
If anybody’s still reading after this, how much merit is there to the legal argument that, by “Lender” selling the Note and not recording assignments on the Deed of Trust, it’s actually the lender who has violated the Deed of Trust? Specifically, doing so would have violated the clauses regarding sale of the Note, which at one point say that “lender” can sell the Note but it must be “(together with this Security Instrument).” So if Note is sold and assignments aren’t recorded, isn’t that a DOT violation?
I think that’s the gist of some of the information here on this great site, but I’m just trying to get other people’s take(s) on it. I like Neil’s idea of using the DOT against the pretender lenders, and wondered if that one specific clause would be applicable for such a purpose. Not looking for legal advice, of course–just education and information!
In cases where MERS acts solely as “nominee” for the lender, by its own admission, and according to its business model, MERS never aquires the note, mortgage balance, has no legal interest, nor bears any risk in the transaction. MERS acts only in a technical capacity by using “tracking software” for the assignments of the mortgage in cyberspace.
Here is the dichotomy, when the loan goes into default, MERS then physically assigns the mortgage using a warrentless without representation “Mortgage Assignment” which is filed by the Plaintiff’s attorney(where we must assume it is also prepared) and puports to assign the Note along with the mortgage. Of course, this is impossible according to UCC law, and even a mortgage assignment cannot hold water without some proof a balance was paid/transfered whathaveyou. The assignment filing at the courthouse is merely a public announcement that a business transaction transferred the legal interest in said note/mortgage, however, the assignment is not the device that does this. What a charade.
By becoming offensive, challenge the legitamacy of the assignments, the “officers” who are purporting to have authority to sign, their physical locations, work history, request proof.
Instead of challenging the securitization up front, challenge the legality of the assignments and catch the pretender defrauding the courts. Move for punitive sanctions for fraud.
Gentleman
I am not quite ready to divulge names but there are more than a few moments and unbelievable things I can recall and still don’t believe heard from 2000 through 2003 from the industry elite.
As for this topic and references to lower quality, grades of assets. We need to remember that the industry is familiar with liquidating leftover loans kicked from delivery. Many of the loans seem to transfer along a scheduled path. Then a loan will take a different path – from GMAC to SAXON to Sale.
Insider terms and lingo here include algorithmic, DU fall out, 1st pay defaults, 4th payment default following seller recourse and scratch & dent, further curtailments, stales, roll over’s, hospital lines and warehouse bail out .
Remember, my firm and discount model employed was so profitable it attracted Carl Icahn, billionare and famed corporate raider. Carl wrote the book on buying assets on the cheap and selling them at a premium.
Trading “impaired” assets or poorer quality loans can
be a very lucrative career. I was told it was the most profitable segment of all GMAC businesses…ALL!
We aquired loans on a flow (one at a time) which were considered stale on a warewhouse line. Stale means the aging exceeds the time (90 days) alloted by the sellers warehouse lender .
The receivables were rejected by the investors more than once on the secondary.
Impaired assets purchased at a discount become very attractive the deeper the discount. No hedge needed here -just a willingness to move the loans by the seller.
Loans that underwrote to a real 50 percent debt to income ratio would calculate at 75% of the principal balance and we would price it 10% below that figure.
No analytics here or algorithmics used for hedging and coverage.
What is interesting however is what a CEO for a GIANT told me in a one on one meeting. He liked my business model and thought he had a better way to go than the 10% margins booked as a gain on sale.
We discussed buying deeply impaired (crap) non performng at a deep discount and then dumping into a performing security …at par. I said your eating up the O/C before the pool is even out of the gate (ramp period) .Unbelievable – not really.
msoliman
borrowerhotline.com
In the request for admissions the pretender lender admitted that the original note was securitized.
They also admitted they acquired the original note and mortgage from from the originating lender and are the holder in due course.
Freddie Mac also claims they are the owner of the mortgage.
Can the pretender lender become the holder in due course if the note was securitized by the originating lender (who was paid in full) then later assign the mortgage (mers as nominee) to the pretender lender from the originating lender to process the foreclosure?
Fraud in Florida
It is very simple actually. The Pretender Lender “A,” closed the table funded loan, by the time you were at the table the loan had been pre sold, meaning, the Pretender Lender “A”, had a satisfied note, your promissory note was paid in full even before you signed it. Granted not paid by you but by some one you were not even aware of, and the fact that the loan was paid in full and the identity of the true source of the funds was not and has not been disclosed to you yet. The Pretender Lender “A” had you sign a mortgage to their benefit even though the note had been satisfied and the mortgage you signed to their benefit should not be enforceable.
The flow of money down stream and upstream is very important. You follow the money and you will see the fraud.
it would be very telling if you look into the initial Bankruptcy filing for First Magnus Financial Corporation from Tucson AZ, in that filing (Chapter 11, Arizona District, case# 4:07-bk-01578). Most of the pretender lenders are either in Bankruptcy or some sort of receivership or reorganization.
In this BK filing you will be able to read that this particular pretender lender was pre-paid as ma regular part of their lending business all their loans, up to or in excess of 80% of the originations and brokered loans.
Once again can some one explain logically and in accordance to our federal laws and state laws, how can a “lender: assign a note that has been fully satisfied, or transfer a mortgage that is no longer due.
Confused-IF Bank XYZ closes the loan in its name and now the loan is in ABC Trust XYZ-2005, how can i use this to defend? Quiet tilte action? or a defense to foreclosure saying the loan has been paid in full already? How can Bank XYZ, that remained servicer even declare a default as master servicer if the loan was paid in full already…It would be great to have a detailed HOW TO STEP by STEP to defend a foreclosure with the Securitization scenerio