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Texas Attorney General's office called for a halt on all foreclosures today
http://blogs.chron.com/primeproperty/2010/10/ag_attempts_to_stop_foreclosur.html ^

Posted on 10/04/2010 5:48:18 PM PDT by Orange1998

AG attempts to stop foreclosures The Texas Attorney General's office called for a halt on all foreclosures today amid widespread scrutiny over the way foreclosures are processed nationwide. Notices to suspend foreclosures were sent to 27 loan servicers doing business in Texas, including Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase & Co. The office would not release the list of companies that received notices. The state office also called for a halt on the sales of properties previously foreclosed upon and all evictions of people living in previously foreclosed upon properties. The action is being taken "in an effort to determine the full harm Texas homeowners may have suffered or could suffer as a result of these business practices," including improperly signing documents related to the foreclosure process, according to a statement late today by Jerry Strickland, a spokesman for Attorney General Greg Abbott.

(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.chron.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: foreclosuregate; foreclosures; gregabbott; mortgage; rico; title
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This is BIG NEWS.
1 posted on 10/04/2010 5:48:23 PM PDT by Orange1998
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To: Orange1998

How many more states will follow?


2 posted on 10/04/2010 6:00:54 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Orange1998
Thats Governor Good Hair, a day late and a dollar short. But he's our Gov. Good Hair.
3 posted on 10/04/2010 6:01:11 PM PDT by corbe (mystified)
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To: Orange1998

How about if you don’t pay your mortgage, you get kicked out.

Why is this so hard to grasp?


4 posted on 10/04/2010 6:02:29 PM PDT by VanDeKoik (1 million in stimulus dollars paid for this tagline!)
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To: Orange1998

Makes me wonder why I bothered to pay for my house.

(Not really)


5 posted on 10/04/2010 6:02:42 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Nobody reads tag lines.)
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To: Orange1998

This is totalitarianism. If these people dont pay — get the hell out!! aBBOTT IS JACKASS.


6 posted on 10/04/2010 6:05:00 PM PDT by Benchim
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To: Orange1998

Oh shucks, I keep paying the mortgage and I get to keep the house. Man oh Man this really is great for me, but wait if the mortgage foreclusures are stopped, what about the people whom have not paid on their mortgages for no fault of their own, The economy soured and millions ofjobs were lost. SO Is ThIS The October Surprise to Buy Votes.

Something does not smell right.


7 posted on 10/04/2010 6:09:55 PM PDT by hondact200 ( Lincoln Freed the Enslaved. Obama Enslaves the Free. Obama is Americas Greatest Threat)
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To: driftdiver

And how many more ‘strategic defaults’? If there’s no repercussions to not honoring a contract, why even have them at all? What a nice way to reward bad behavior- again.


8 posted on 10/04/2010 6:11:20 PM PDT by rintense
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To: Orange1998

The TX AG is “calling” for a stop to all foreclosures. Asking and getting are two different things.

Does the AG have the authority to STOP the banks from foreclosing?


9 posted on 10/04/2010 6:15:30 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Political correctness in America today is a Rip Van Winkle acid trip.)
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To: Orange1998

If homeowners in 23 states were getting a pass, homeowners in the other 27 certainly would be treated unfairly if their foreclosures continued. Everyone gets a free house until the election is over...and then it will be too close to the holidays to be the Grinch who stole the kiddies’ homes.


10 posted on 10/04/2010 6:17:08 PM PDT by kittymyrib
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To: Orange1998

Some answers here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2601477/posts

Read post 15


11 posted on 10/04/2010 6:23:07 PM PDT by davetex (All my weapons got melted by a meteor!! No Sh*t)
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To: Rebelbase

It is a tad complicated as there does seem to be a trifling legal issue reguarding the ownership of these mortages.
The suede shoed sharpies on wall St put them all in a blender and sold them to entities which for their own tax avoidance purposes were legally unable to have title.
Isn’t the law an unpleasant thing?


12 posted on 10/04/2010 6:25:47 PM PDT by nkycincinnatikid
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To: rintense

San Fransisco to ban happy meals. Texas to ban mortgage foreclosures. Obama lashes out at critiques of One Nation Rally trashing of the Washington, D. C., mall. Cover-up claimed regarding 09/11 discoveries... Bankruptcy filings up 11%. Developing countries can sue polluting nations. Company demands town change the name of the Christmas parade., and it does. Congressman Conyers has license suspended after bouncing check. Houston mom is stabbed to death shielding her baby. Abortionist pulls gun on pro-life witnesses. WTO helping China loot Caterpillar.

That Obama, he sure knows how to toss together a cohesive populace doesn’t he...

And all this they call progressive.

Give him time folks. If he can do this in two years, THINK what he can do in four or eight.

Sounds like a good week to be a South Pacific Islander.


13 posted on 10/04/2010 6:26:48 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (All hail Prince Skid-mark, Barack Hussein Obama, constantly soiling himself and our nation.)
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To: DoughtyOne

Strategic ‘banning’ is the fastest way to communism. Cuz remember, the government knows what’s best for you and is acting on your behalf.


14 posted on 10/04/2010 6:30:35 PM PDT by rintense
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To: VanDeKoik
How about if you don’t pay your mortgage, you get kicked out. Why is this so hard to grasp?

The fact is that the industry that made so many bad loans has been cutting corners (again) and may have a colossal problem.

It's opportunistic to take advantage of these lapses, but laws are laws, the industry knows what they need to do to follow them. Hard to blame the delinquent homeowner if the owner of the mortgage doesn't have their stuff together.

15 posted on 10/04/2010 6:31:36 PM PDT by Crichton
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To: VanDeKoik

but who has the right to evict?


16 posted on 10/04/2010 6:31:44 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: kittymyrib
And how is this fair to those who've honored their debt and contracts? Yeah, it's not.

And don't be fooled. You and I are paying for this.

17 posted on 10/04/2010 6:32:00 PM PDT by rintense
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To: Benchim

No one put a gun to these peoples heads to make these loans. Yet the banks are going to take a HUDE hit on this one. If the Company that is (was ) doing these robo forclosures, yes some people who weren’t even behind in payments were getting forclosed on, ABBOTT has a duty to protect the innocent. There is no way in good conscious someone can defend the practice that was going on.


18 posted on 10/04/2010 6:32:00 PM PDT by Marty62 (marty60)
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To: DoughtyOne

Banks have been caught forging documents for foreclosures. It might be nice to get to the bottom of this before we make snap judgments

Just Counterfeit Documents... No, Really!
http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?singlepost=2190795

They even had a price list for forged documents. How cool is that?
http://www.scribd.com/doc/38591053/Lender-Processing-Services-DOCX-Document-Fabrication-Price-Sheet


19 posted on 10/04/2010 6:32:36 PM PDT by listenhillary (A very simple fix to our dilemma - We need to reward the makers instead of the takers)
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To: rintense

I hear ya. I agree. With all the problem cities and states have these days, San Francisco finds time to re-organize it’s citizens lives for them.

Isn’t that special!


20 posted on 10/04/2010 6:34:42 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (All hail Prince Skid-mark, Barack Hussein Obama, constantly soiling himself and our nation.)
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