Them be Fightin’ Words: The Fight Over Foreclosure Fees

Very interesting perspective on the Foreclosure Mills and GSE’s… Worth the read… From the authors twitter account… ~ Just finished my @housingwire column. Probably the most in-depth and difficult writing I’ve done all year. http://snurl.com/10zxlx Them be fightin’ words: the fight over foreclosure fees Monday, August 30th, 2010, 2:56 pm For the law firms that … Read more

OUCH! Judge Dunnigan Just Fined Smith Hiatt & Diaz $49,000 to be paid in 4 days and if not then add $7,000 per day

Remember that pesky little Order to Show Cause from last week? LINK – Smith Hiatt Diaz and HSBC – Order to Show Cause Why Plaintiff and Plaintiff’s Attorneys Should Not be Held in Contempt and Sanctioned For failure to appear again and again and again and again and again… Well, word on the street is the … Read more

Foreclosure Fraud – Texas Attorney General Abbott Charges American Home Mortgage Servicing Inc With Violating State Debt Collection Laws

American Home Mortgage Servicing Inc. failed to properly process requests AUSTIN – Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott today charged Coppell-based American Home Mortgage Servicing Inc. (AHMS) with using illegal debt collection tactics and improperly misleading struggling homeowners. According to state investigators, AHMS collections agents used aggressive and unlawful tactics to collect payments from Texas homeowners … Read more

Chink in the Armor – Rise, The American Lion

Rise, The American Lion The story of the financial meltdown and its connection to the subprime  mortgage mess is a peculiarly American phenomena even though the ripple effects spread throughout the world.  Because it is a peculiarly American phenomena,   it will take a peculiarly American solution to resolve it. If you have studied the unfolding … Read more

Armageddon – Banks Breaking Down Doors and the Cops Do Not Care

These shocking developments are just in from Attorney Matthew Weidner The police are treating these criminal break-ins as civil matters. How civil will this be when someone gets killed? What the hell is going on? Lender Break Ins Attached is a lawsuit that I filed last week, along with police reports that detail the facts … Read more

12 Common Mistakes Attorneys Make in Default Judgment Motions

This was copied from Judge Englehard’s (151st District Court, Harris County, TX) website: Default Judgment Motions Common Mistakes Attorneys Make or “The Dirty Dozen” 1. WarGames: No Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC) printout as an exhibit to the non-military affidavit.  A link to this website is on the Court’s judicial homepage which may be located … Read more