Atlanta-based mortgage servicer Ocwen Financial is a player in hundreds of thousands of homeowner bankruptcies each year, and for a good reason: Ocwen services mortgages worth over $82 billion. Ocwen’s primary clients are the major mortgage lenders: BNY Mellon, Citibank, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, US Bank, and Wells Fargo. These investors are apparently furious with Ocwen […]
For many, the loan modification process is getting out of hand. Javier Hernandez lost his job, his father was deported and the value of the home he bought for his mother seven years ago plummeted. Despite all this grief, however, Javier appeared to still be current on his payments, according to this article in the […]
Since 1935, when the U.S. passed its first Social Security Act, protection of the elderly has been a national priority. By 2009, according to this Wikipedia article, the U.S. Social Security plan became the largest government program in the world and the single greatest expenditure in the federal budget, with 20.8% for Social Security, compared […]
Two stories tell different sides of the US housing crisis. In Philadelphia, a struggling homeowner tells her story of a tortured loan modification nightmare: at one point it appears she is to be forced from her home because her payment was short thirty-five cents. With no accountability and no predictability, banks who offer loan modification […]
The great recession landed the second of a one-two punch as San Bernardino this week followed closely on the heels of Stockton, California in voting to file for Chapter 9 bankruptcy. San Bernardino is reporting a $45,000,000.00 budget deficit and is “so broke it can’t cover its payroll.” San Bernardino will follow Mammoth Lakes, a […]
Inspired by the national attorney general mortgage settlement, California has passed a landmark foreclosure law that Governor Brown is expected to sign within days. Here are 3 reasons why the rest of the country will be watching the Golden State in the months and years ahead: No “Dual Tracking” The California law is designed to […]
In 2005 the credit card companies finally aligned all the stars to get BAPCPA passed: the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act. Although BAPCPA has been roundly – and soundly – condemned as mucking up a perfectly good bankruptcy code, symbolically it rang true to the tone that most Americans believed: debtors simply had […]
