Discovery and Motion Practice to Defeat False claims for Administration, Collection and Enforcement in Mortgage and Foreclosure Cases.

The goal for homeowners should be to win the case, not to delay it or get a settlement. No meaningful settlement will be offered until you have demonstrated that you are in it to win it, which means that you are truly ready to go to trial.

Until then, you present no risk to the securitization infrastructure and the case has no meaning or relevance to the opposition.

Don’t look at the value of your case from the perspective of the amount of money demanded. Look at it from then perspective of what the other side could lose if they lose this case — i.e., how many other cases will they lose? Will they end up owing billions of dollars to investors?

The method is generically described as “Discovery.” And the best time to start is as soon as you read this. Youc an start with a QWR under RESPA or a DVL under the FDCPA or both. Your transaction most likely falls in the categorization that I describe on this blog — i.e., a securities scheme in which the homeowner is an unwitting issuer of securities.

The homeowner is not a borrower, as represented by sales corporation who are acting as intermediaries for intermediaries who are controlled by investment banks (securities brokerage firms).

Through fasle pretenses, the investment bank (acting through intermediaries) induced the homeowner to execute loan documetns that contained recitations of facts that never occurred in ther eal world.

All contracts incorporate the provisions of statutes governing the content and form of such contracts. All loan contracts therefore require the creation of an unpaid loan account on the ledger of the “lender,” which appears as an offset to the decrease of an asset account that was used to fund the transaction.

If that transction did not occur, if that loan account was not created and mantained on the ledger of the “lender” then there is no loan account and there is no lender.

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Like all litigation, first there needs to be an analysis of the documents that have already been presented, sent, or shown. You are looking for inconsistencies, and you will usually find them if you look hard enough. That means examining and questioning every mark on every page without assuming anything.

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In performing that analysis, you start with the premise that this is a false claim using fabricated, forged documents. That means that the documents might appear to be facially valid, but a closer look might allow you even to challenge the facial validity.
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In cases involving challenges to the administration, collection, and enforcement of apparent “mortgage loan” documents, this usually means that there are facial defects on any documents that purport to transfer ownership or any other rights to the note or lien.
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And that usually involves a description of the party granting the transfer and a description of the party supposedly receiving the transfer that is insufficient to identify them in real life — even if, at first glance, that appears to be satisfied.
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A common thread is the use of MERS, which is an agent/nominee of a company that was previously identified as the lender, which was not acquired and never signed anything that released the facial rights of the note — because it never had possession of the note nor any rights to collect on the debt.
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Then there is the analysis of the substance, which is the easy part. If the document says there was $10 and other valuable consideration, it is a false representation. There was no such transaction, and since the law does not recognize the transfer of the lien without a concurrent transfer of the underlying debt, the transfer is a legal nullity.
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Unless they can produce a copy of the $10 paid (and received), they are unable or unwilling to corroborate the presumption raised from the face of the document. Accordingly, they are prohibited from introducing any evidence that the underlying obligation was legally transferred.
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If the claimant is US Bank NA, for example, you want to ask for the name of the trust officer who manages a trust account in which there is ownership of the unpaid loan account due from the homeowner. You also want to ask whether they ever paid the $10 and what other consideration they paid.
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Since they have no s much trust officer because they have no such trust account and they don’t own or even claim to own the underlying obligation alleged to be due from the homeowner (or the note or lien) they will fail or refuse to comply with your legal discovery demands.
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If there is “other consideration,” ask them what it was. And, of course, ask for the date, place, parties to the transaction and  copies of correspondence and agreements relating to the alleged transfer. If the transfer did not occur (and I am telling you it didn’t), there is no legal claim by the transferee, who has no financial stake (i.e., no standing).
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One possible avenue of inquiry is the practice and policy of the party who has been named as claimant, plaintiff, or beneficiary. Do they expect or receive any money from liquidating the property in other foreclosures? The answer is NO. But they won’t tell you that, so you need motions (plural) to compel and motions (plural) for evidentiary and economic sanctions.
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Each case has variations. But the underlying theme is the same: there is no unpaid loan account on the ledger of the designated claimant/Plaintiff/beneficiary. Therefore they had no right to even allow their name to be used as such.
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But since they were paid a fee to allow the use of their name in this scheme using false pretenses to the detriment of homeowners who reasonably believed they were getting a loan, that it had been transferred, and that the creditor owning the alleged unpaid loan account had appointed the “servicer,” homeowners responded to correspondence, notices and statements from parties that were never previously disclosed nor identified by a direct signed letter from he designated claimant/ creditor informing the alleged “debtor” of the change in servicing.
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And the “lender”, having no ownership or interest in an unpaid loan account due from the homeowner, had no power to grant rights to a company that was going to be named as a servicer even though there was never any intent that that company would engage in any servicing functions.
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But it is not by proving those statements that homeowners win the case. They win by revealing the unwillingness or inability of the attorney working for the foreclosure mill to provide corroborating statements and evidence from the designated claimant. That event serves as the foundation for seeking to bar the opposition from using any legal presumptions and even allows raising inferences or presumptions in favor of the homeowner.  

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But challenging the “servicers” and other claimants before they seek enforcement can delay action by them for as much as 14 years or more. In addition, although currently rare, it can also result in your homestead being free and clear of any mortgage lien that you contested. (No Guarantee).

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One Response

  1. Agreed however, what is generally happening when there are documented inconsistences against the Plaintiff and the Homeowner insists on going to trial, the homeowner is blatantly told the objective is get a loan modification, refinancing or be pressured to negotiate. Failing that, as the homeowner insists on going to trial, the documents showing Plaintiff’s inconsistences are removed and replaced with Plaintiff’s fabricated documents. That is how these foreclosure cases are won by the Plaintiff in the courts.

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