The Portland Housing Market: Is the Glass Half Full or Half Empty?
As we enter the New Year, everyone, it seems, has an opinion or prediction. However, one rule should always be applied: Be careful how you
As we enter the New Year, everyone, it seems, has an opinion or prediction. However, one rule should always be applied: Be careful how you
As we approach 2012, our friends in the banking, servicing, and title industries are on their last conference call of the year; this time discussing
The following Frequently Unanswered Questions have been provided in an effort to better understand Big Banks and their systemic inability to explain, answer, or even
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
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
Introduction. As we know today, there are many bank-owned properties being listed and sold. A term commonly used to refer to these homes are REOs,