Monday, October 1, 2012

Wave Of Foreclouses Coming To A Las Vegas Neighborhood Near You

From the LVRJ:

The Nevada Supreme Court has sided with banks by validating a key cog in the foreclosure enforcement machinery that has sparked legal disputes all over the country.
In a 26-page ruling delivered Thursday, all seven justices agreed that hundreds of thousands of home mortgages in the state involving the Mortgage Electronic Registration System Inc. could be put into foreclosure after technical adjustments.
As foreclosures mounted in the past five years, consumer groups and attorneys have targeted MERS as hiding the identity of the actual lender, making it difficult to work out new mortgage terms, while not properly holding an interest in a loan.
Incorporated by banks in 1995 and still owned by them, MERS is a database that tracks mortgages for its members as they pass among different owners, sometimes as part of securities that bundle hundreds or thousands of loans into one package.
In doing so, MERS has dispensed with the long-standing requirement that a lender file papers with a county recorder every time a loan changes hands.   http://www.lvrj.com/news/supreme-court-gives-banks-foreclosure-win-172056761.html
Hundreds of thousands of foreclosed homes on the market? That can't be good, can it?

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