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A. If your lender has already filed suit to foreclose on your home:
1.Use the first form. It’s a fill-in-the-blank legal request to your lender asking that the original note be produced, before it can proceed with the foreclosure. In some jurisdictions, the courts require the original request to be filed with the clerk of court and a copy of the request to be sent to the attorney representing the lender. To find out the rules where you live, call the Clerk of Court in your jurisdiction.
2.If the lender’s attorney does not respond within 30 days, file a motion to compel with the court and request that the court set a hearing on your motion. That, in effect, asks the judge to order the lender to produce the documents.
3.The judge will issue a ruling at your hearing. Many judges around the country are becoming more sympathetic to homeowners, because of the prevalence of predatory lending and servicing. In the past, many lenders have relied upon using lost note affidavits, but in many cases, that’s no longer enough to satisfy the judge. They are holding the lender to the letter of the law, requiring them to produce evidence that they are the true owners of the note. For example:
Originally posted by XPLodER
reply to post by XPLodER
It involved something called an "assignment of mortgage," the document that certifies who owns the property and is thus entitled to foreclose on it. Especially these days, the assignment is key evidence in a foreclosure case: With so many loans having been bought, sold, securitized, and traded, establishing who owns the mortgage is hardly a trivial matter. It frequently requires months of sleuthing in order to untangle the web of banks, brokers, and investors, among others. By law, a firm must execute (complete, sign, and notarize) an assignment before attempting to seize somebody's home.
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xploder
Originally posted by kozmo
I am in the process of retaining an attorney to do a comprehensive records search on my property to determine the status of title. If it is determined that the title has been lost or assigned improperly, I am going to proactively challenge my loan servicer's authority to collect mortgage payment and petition the court to legally match title with deed. I will let you know how this goes.
Originally posted by tinkytink1207
I am wondering since the changeover from wachovia to wells fargo who has my deed. Its weird how they haven't contacted me with the friendly reminders etc as they have always done in the past??? So I should ask our attorney to research the deed to the home?? Then he will be able to let me know who owns the deed now??
Originally posted by ldyserenity
Hmmmm, I am just wondering how far this could go, could it bleed over into renters? Say the renter asks for documents to prove the landlord has ownership of said land to warrant being Paid to let someone else use the property, well if that landowner hasn't got the correct paperwork nor the mortgage holder has, then can it not be said, that said tenant could claim ownership and stop paying rent and be safe from eviction? I mean if it 's a place where possession is nine/tenths than could this not be cited for ...
Originally posted by OhZone
Originally posted by ldyserenity
Hmmmm, I am just wondering how far this could go, could it bleed over into renters? Say the renter asks for documents to prove the landlord has ownership of said land to warrant being Paid to let someone else use the property, well if that landowner hasn't got the correct paperwork nor the mortgage holder has, then can it not be said, that said tenant could claim ownership and stop paying rent and be safe from eviction? I mean if it 's a place where possession is nine/tenths than could this not be cited for ...
Wrong!
Knowing that the person you are paying your rent to owns the property is one thing that would be in order.
There was a case recently of a non owner renting property, however there is no way the renter could get to own the property without legally purchasing it from the legal owner.
Since no evidence of MERS’ ownership of the underlying note has been offered, and other courts have concluded that MERS does not own the underlying notes, this court is convinced that MERS had no interest it could transfer to Citibank. Since MERS did not own the underlying note, it could not transfer the beneficial interest of the Deed of Trust to another. Any attempt to transfer the beneficial interest of a trust deed without ownership of the underlying note is void under California law.”
In reality MERS is really nothing more than a shell, or a front corporation for its so-called “members”. Many of these MERS members were once some of the most prestigious names in American finance. Many MERS members are now reporting hundreds of billions of dollars of losses as result of their ill conceived scheme to ramp up mortgage origination so they could pretend to flip millions of mortgage loans into trusts in exchange for trillions of dollars of investors money. One big problem was that the promissory notes were never actually delivered to the trustees of these trusts. Therefore these trusts have no evidence of ownership of the debts they purportedly purchased.
Yet many of the investment “trusts” which supposedly hold thousands of original promissory notes are hard pressed to produce them when legally required to do so. MERS admittedly does not hold any promissory notes. A party must have possession of a promissory note in order to have standing to enforce and/or otherwise collect a debt that is owed to another party.
UCC 3-501 requires a lender to “exhibit the note” when the lender makes demand for payment, and the borrower demands to see the note. Technically a demand for payment occurs every month, and it also occurs when a bank begins foreclosure proceedings.
UCC 3-501 also requires a servicer to show authority to make a demand for payment, if it does not own the note, but is merely servicing it. In the event a noteholder or servicer or will not exhibit the note or perform other legal requirements when requested to do so by the borrower, this UCC section allows the borrower to discontinue payments WITHOUT DISHONOR until such time as the noteholder or servicer complies with all laws or contract provisions.