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12 Common Mistakes Attorneys Make in Default Judgment Motions
by Harry
Foreclosures and the nightmare of Default Judgment Motions.
Fraud, inept, or down right neglect in foreclosures.
Default Judgment Motions impacting foreclosures.
“Common Mistakes Attorneys Make or “The Dirty Dozen”
1. WarGames: No Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC) printout as an exhibit to the non-military affidavit. A link to this website is on the Court’s judicial homepage which may be located at http://www.justex.net/Courts/Civil/CourtSection.aspx?crt=10&sid=40.
2. Saving Private Ryan: Conducting a DMDC search without a SSN (which is not bad in and of itself—just means the DMDC cannot authoritatively assert that this is the same individual that the query refers to) and not providing corroborating evidence in non-military affidavit that the individual is not in the military. Corroborating information such as a family member’s statement, or proof that the person is too old or young to be on active duty, etc., is especially necessary when the person has a common first and last name.
3. Beyond a Reasonable Doubt and Necessary Roughness: Improper proving up of fees in attorney’s fees affidavit: use of neither “reasonable” nor “necessary” or one and not the other, but not both as required.
4. The Debt Collector: Filing a proposed order that seeks attorney’s fees for post-judgment/collection efforts. There is no authority that the author has seen allowing for post-judgment collection attorney’s fees (as opposed to appellate attorney’s fees).
5. The Bad News Bears: Not conditioning an award of appellate attorney’s fees on an unsuccessful appeal by the defaulting defendant in the proposed order or the attorney’s fees affidavit. That is, it has to be bad news for the appellant for you to be entitled to your appellate attorney’s fees.”
Foreclosures, foreclosures, foreclosures! When will they stop?
Read about the other Default Judgment Motions that impact foreclosures here
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What Do You Do If You Find MERS on Your Mortgage?
by Harry
“There are two ways to find out if you have MERS on your mortgage.
The easiest way is to look in your copy of your closing documents to find a piece of paper which says you allow MERS or Mortgage Electronic Registry Service to be listed on the mortgage or deed of trust.
If you have that, there is a pretty darned good chance you have MERS on your Mortgage.
Ultimately, you will have to take a short trip to the recorder’s office at the county courthouse and do your own title search. If you find MERS on your mortgage, get a stamped copy of it from the recorder, thank them nicely and leave. Don’t flip out on them, if anything, educate them, let them know about MERS. Odds are, they haven’t a clue.
You can go to MERS’s own website and look it up for yourself, but experience has shown this information isn’t reliable. The only thing that matters is what is listed at the courthouse.”
More on this MERS article here.
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Foreclosures: Disgruntled Homeowners Dismantling Homes, and Commiting Arson.
by Harry
We have all heard about the glut of foreclosures occurring over the last few years.
Neighborhoods with high concentrations of foreclosures are being trashed.
NY Times reports that the trend of dismantling of foreclosures is accelerating.
Nevada, Florida, Arizona and other states are experiencing the tragedy of foreclosures and disgruntled homeowners who are dismantling homes, and committing arson before they leave.
The New York Times reports; ”
“If the homeowner sells the components to the house while they still own the house, that’s not a crime,” said Officer Bill Cassell, a spokesman for the Las Vegas police.
So too in Florida, another state swamped by foreclosures. Several prosecutors and police agencies there said that unless laws were modified, such behavior would have to be sorted out between borrower and lender in civil court.” NYT
Take advantage of the “bottom of the market” in foreclosures and invest in government foreclosures.
Foreclosures and Crime
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Title Search for Tax Deed Investing
by Harry
Title Search
Title Search
A full Title Search is a search required by state law and can go back as far as 75 years.
Many states consider a full Title Search of 35 to 50 years a ‘full search’.
Each link found in a Title Search makes up a Chain of Title or ownership and when a person sells a piece of property, a new deed is created and is recorded in the Deed Room as a Public Record, and is used to build a Chain of Title.
When conducting a full Title Search, you will search the records to find out absolutely everything about that property that was ever recorded.
In Tax Deed investing, Title Search may not necessarily required in every case but should be conducted out of interest for the history of the property and part of your due diligence.
Find out more about Title Search
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Tax Deed Sales are a Boon for the USA-based or International Investor
by Harry
Tax Deed Sales
This will be a boon for the USA-based or international investor who desires to invest in Tax Deed Sales.
USA Real Estate can be a boon if you have the knowledge of how to invest intelligently and safely in Tax Deed Sales without getting caught up in a title dispute.
We at Tax Deed Treasures are qualified Title Abstractors in title searches and will not only train you in how to invest in Tax Deed Sales, but also train you in necessary title search skills, which are essential for you to have if you wish to avoid the pitfalls of ‘blind investing’. If carefully followed, these newly-acquired skills will prove invaluable in helping you safely secure your investment efforts by minimizing your exposure to hidden investing traps which the uninitiated can (and often do) experience.
Learn more about Tax Deed Sales
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