As we move into the New Year, our friends in the banking, servicing, and title industries have hastily convened a conference call to deal with
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
Hypocrisy: [c.1200, ipocrisie, from O.Fr. ypocrisie, from L.L. hypocrisis, from Gk. hypokrisis “acting on the stage, pretense,” from hypokrinesthai “play a part, pretend….” Online Etymology Dictionary] Example: When banks lend money today,
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
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
