TO: All Lawyers, Paralegals and Secretaries FROM: Personnel Dept. SUBJECT: Upcoming Holiday Party We know it’s been a hard year for all of you. Many
As we know, until recently, the vast majority of foreclosures in Oregon were conducted non-judicially, by advertisement and sale. However, due to the McCoy and
When we last left this telephone conference in Part One, Damien Faust, chief legal counsel for Belial Bank, was regaling everyone with his brilliance in
Once again, the best and brightest minds in the banking, servicing, and title industries are on yet another conference call discussing the latest events in
Have you ever been curious about what “test” the Big Banks apply when deciding to allow short sales? I have. What follows is my
The Conundrum. In Oregon we have a foreclosure conundrum: ORS 86.735(1) requires lenders to record all successive trust deed assignments when non-judicially foreclosing a trust
“The great thing about working at ________________ Bank is that no one has to take personal responsibility for the institutionalized immorality of our industry. We
On April 13, 2010, the Office of Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), together with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Board (FRB), and
In my earlier post I was critical of the Obama Administration’s second run at jumpstarting the woefully inadequate Home Affordable Refinance Program or “HARP.” As
“ If the Servicer is foreclosing on a property in the State of Oregon, the Servicer must destroy any unrecorded assignment to Freddie Mac no later than 10 days
