Why Are The Oregon Courts Ignoring Its Own Rules Regarding The “Surrender And ‘Tender’ Of ‘Original’ Negotiable Instruments?”

  This is the Oregon Uniform Trial Court Rule regarding the surrender of negotiable instruments before the entry of a judgment. Oregon is typically a non-judicial foreclosure state. However, the bank servicers have been increasingly choosing to go the judicial route. My...

Wells Fargo Admits To Executing WaMu Note Endorsement in 2013, And Gets Away With It!

This decision out of an Arkansas Bankruptcy Court has to be one of the most bizarre rulings I have ever read to-date. (See: Schiefer v Wells Fargo – Arkansas). Though the Court appears to get the facts utterly wrong in this case, there is one valuable nugget (FACT) that now exists – Wells Fargo...

Nationstar Conducts “Bulk Note Sales” Without The “Notes?”

In 2013, investors in six “RALI Series” Trusts filed a complaint in New York against their Master Servicer (Nationstar Mortgage, LLC) for conducting “Bulk Note Sales” of non-performing loans owned by the trusts for its own benefit; specifically to recoup upwards of a billion-dollars...

“Robosignor” (aka Document Forgerer) Wins NTC’s 2016 “Perfect Attendance” Award!

The document fabrication mill “Nationwide Title Clearing” continues to churn out this kind of fraudulent sludge unabated. In reviewing this 2014 mortgage assignment executed by “Marguerita Witzigman” as “Vice President of CitiMortgage, Inc.” (See: NTC Mortgage Assignment...

As Predicted, Chase Continues Its Game Of “Whac-A-Mole”

A client of mine from Colorado hired me to investigate his WaMu Deed to which JPMorgan Chase staked its claim and was moving to foreclose. The “Rule 120 Hearing” was scheduled for August 2, 2017. Counsel for my client appeared for the hearing and was prepared to challenge Chase’s...