June, 2011

GUEST POST: Stop HAMP Discrimination Against the Disabled and the Elderly

GUEST POST: Stop HAMP Discrimination Against the Disabled and the Elderly

Retirees and the handicapped experience higher living expenses, including home maintenance, spiraling healthcare costs, utilities, and other expenses associated with age, disability, and/or deteriorating health. That fact progressively reduces their disposable income and ability to make mortgage payments. ... (Continue reading)

Ohio’s Former AG Marc Dann Talks Hawaii & Fighting Banks – A Mandelman Matters Podcast

Ohio's Former AG Marc Dann Talks Hawaii & Fighting Banks - A Mandelman Matters Podcast

While Marc was in office he was a very vocal opponent of Wall Street, and the mortgage servicers who were... and still are... destroying his state with unnecessary and even illegal foreclosures. And since he's left office, he's defended... (Continue reading)

Ocwen Loan Servicing Takes Home from Handicapped Because There’s Equity

Ocwen Loan Servicing Takes Home from Handicapped Because There’s Equity

Also, call me naïve, but I have to believe that this is all some sort of gigantic oversight, and you’re going to learn of it… correct it immediately… and the Giangregorios are going to live in their home… happily ever... (Continue reading)

Fannie Mae Chickens Out of Phone Conference with Hawaii’s Homeowners

Fannie Mae Chickens Out of Phone Conference with Hawaii's Homeowners

For example, in response to Fannie's announcement, there was talk of circulating a petition asking that Fannie... I suppose... reconsider their position and agree to participate in the state's new mediation program. Adorable, right?... (Continue reading)

Bringing Up the REAR – Jamie Dimon, Chairman & CEO, JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Bringing Up the REAR – Jamie Dimon, Chairman & CEO, JPMorgan Chase & Co.

“You have exactly 11 hours to sign and notarize this form. Then deliver three copies to one of three addresses in your home city between 3:00 PM and 4:30 PM on Thursday. The catch is that you must... (Continue reading)

FOR THE FATHERS

FOR THE FATHERS

But, it’s hard for me to be happy without thinking about the hundreds of thousands or perhaps millions of fathers who while they smile through their day, are also worrying about what will happen tomorrow because they know that, despite... (Continue reading)

GUEST POST: President Obama, please don’t let them take Grandma’s house!

GUEST POST: President Obama, please don’t let them take Grandma’s house!

A Guest Post by Chicago attorney, Rick Rogers of Rogers Law Group. Rick and I met last year when we attended Max Gardner's Boot Camp in North Carolina last year; we actually shared the Riverview Cabin on Max's ranch... (Continue reading)

Civil Beat Reporter in Hawaii Interviews Mandelman on Fannie Mae Decision to Foreclose Judicially

Civil Beat Reporter in Hawaii Interviews Mandelman on Fannie Mae Decision to Foreclose Judicially

"The people of Hawaii today are very proud of their Legislature for (Act 48)," Andleman said. "It was a grassroots movement, they felt like they had a real success on a national scale. I mean it was a big deal.... (Continue reading)

The Definition of Dichotomy

The Definition of Dichotomy

So, now the Attorneys General from New York and Delaware are investigating in order to find out whether trillions of dollars in loans were seriously mishandled and therefore are not in the trusts, as the banksters said they were. ... (Continue reading)

Mandelman’s Monthly Museletter – Version 13.0

Mandelman’s Monthly Museletter – Version 13.0

In this issue: 1. Banker-Speak... A new language. 2. An Interesting List. 3. Lessons from History... How we handled foreclosures during the 1930s. 4. I wanted to like Bruce Marks of NACA... but I can't. 5.... (Continue reading)

Fannie Responds to Hawaii’s New Foreclosure Law – Says… WE’RE OUT!

Fannie Responds to Hawaii's New Foreclosure Law - Says... WE'RE OUT!

So, I really didn't know what the banking industry was going to do... I only knew one thing with certainty, even if everyone didn't agree... no way would they conform to the new law governing non-judicial foreclosures. Mediation sounded... (Continue reading)

NBC/MSNBC.com Try to Cover the Foreclosures Crisis

NBC/MSNBC.com Try to Cover the Foreclosures Crisis

No matter, at least you're understanding that today the people falling into foreclosure did nothing to cause their fate. It's now happening at every socio-economic level of our society, and you may be assured that it will spread and... (Continue reading)

Treasury Official: “HAMP’s Incentives Meaningless” – SO, PROGRAM WASTED $560 MILLION?

Treasury Official:

If that’s the case, and I have no reason to believe that it isn’t, then I would only like to suggest that perhaps some of the millions eligible for withholding could have been withheld prior to paying them the $560... (Continue reading)

Please Call the White House Today for Elizabeth Warren… Here’s the Number and a Script. Please Call.

Please Call the White House Today for Elizabeth Warren... Here's the Number and a Script. Please Call.

I had the privilege of meeting Elizabeth Warren about a month ago when she was in San Diego and here are a few of the things she said to me... I wrote them down at the time so I'd have... (Continue reading)

Bank of America forecloses on un-mortgaged Florida home… that’s hardly news. Is EVERYONE missing the point here?

Bank of America forecloses on un-mortgaged Florida home… that's hardly news. Is EVERYONE missing the point here?

What the heck is going on around here? We’re now passing around a story about a stupid PR stunt by a lawyer that ended up making Bank of America look REASONABLE? Oh my God, people… listen to me... (Continue reading)

Dear Banking & Government People Who Are Reading This…

Dear Banking & Government People Who Are Reading This...

You guys all now know that this thing had about as much to do with sub-prime borrowers as World War II. Unless you can point out a sub-prime borrower who was selling synthetic CDOs in Iceland, I think we're... (Continue reading)

Earth to Bankers, Earth to Bankers… Your Planet is Dying, You Must Evacuate, It’s Time to Come Home.

Earth to Bankers, Earth to Bankers... Your Planet is Dying, You Must Evacuate, It's Time to Come Home.

The bankers... yes, the very same bankers who leveraged up on garbage CDOs as if housing prices would never ever go anywhere but up are now supposedly shocked and dismayed that mortgage lending volumes don't seem to be "coming back,"... (Continue reading)

MAX GARDNER from the Front Lines of the Battle… A Mandelman Matters PODCAST!

MAX GARDNER from the Front Lines of the Battle... A Mandelman Matters PODCAST!

Click the button below... and you'll hear a Mandelman Matters PODCAST... A PODCAST THAT MATTERS, if you will. From start to finish, it's unquestionably MAX GARDNER at his candid best. ... (Continue reading)

Mandelman’s Overview of Economic News That Matters

Mandelman's Overview of Economic News That Matters

So, there you have it... a veritable cornucopia of bad news... and all of it from CNBC, a cable news channel that normally broadcasts nothing but bull... markets. Bull markets... that's what I meant. But, it's getting impossible... (Continue reading)

The Luckiest Bankers the World Has Ever Seen! And They’re Ours! Yay!

The Luckiest Bankers the World Has Ever Seen!  And They're Ours!  Yay!

Assuming you were such an adept trader of securities that you had a 70% probability of making money on any given trading day, which would, by the way, pretty much make you a God of Wall Street… the odds that... (Continue reading)

Hey Everybody… It’s “Pretend You’re Surprised About the Economy Day!”

Hey Everybody… It’s “Pretend You’re Surprised About the Economy Day!”

Falling Home Prices, the Next Financial Crisis is Near, Defaulters Aren't Deadbeats After All, the Economy with Gwen Ifill and MERS has No Clothes.... (Continue reading)

Dylan Ratigan on “Fraudclosure” Still Seems to be “Lite” on Servicers

Dylan Ratigan on

I'm not kidding about this... every morning I wake up, get my coffee, turn on some cable news show, look over at my wife and say: "Look at that, honey... BofA didn't blow up again today! Will wonders never... (Continue reading)


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