Lenders have lost an excuse for not foreclosing - from MND: Two Appellate Courts in California, citing two separate rationales, have upheld the legal standing of MERS to foreclose. In Calvo v. HSBC a deed of trust signed by Calvo identified CBSK Financial Group as...
Month: September 2011
Not Civil
Back to the Future?
Here's a tour of the modular we saw assembled back in February. While many may have a concern about the quality of construction, it will be compounded by the noise and somewhat uncommon look inside:
Leave It Alone
The banking/government industrial complex should look at this, and think everything is fine - don't spend any more trillions!!
Joys of Homeownership
Most people would expect that things would work out better after 10 years....
BofA’s NOD Increase in August
The mainstream media and blogs were buzzing this week about the big increase in BofA's NOD filings last month. Let's examine the local NOD and NOTS counts to see if the foreclosure waters are rising. These are the monthly totals of notices/sales for all property types...
Happy 900th
Welcome back - hopefully everybody made it through the blog-host changeover, thank for your patience. We lost a couple of posts and a few comments, but we should be better off overall. We've reached the 900th video - a collection of cars around town:
Another Housing Alternative
We changed blog hosts last night, which should mean faster loading. It'll take a day for the change to migrate through the internet, so as you pick up this new post, let me know it working! Hat tip to both MB and daytrip who sent this in:
Evaluating Realtors – Best Tips
Home sellers have been trained by the real estate industrial complex to think that the big splashy ads in newspapers and magazines will sell their home. Realtors prey on the seller's ego by promising to have their house prominently displayed all over town, and with a...
Probably Not Angelo
From msnbc.com: Bank of America has been ordered to pay a former employee $930,000 for violating federal whistleblower protection laws. The Labor Department also ordered the bank to reinstate the worker. The Los Angeles-area employee led internal investigations that...