There is a foreclosure crisis in America. There has been a lot of discussion as to where the blame lies for this crisis. From my point of view, the blame sits squarely with the financial institutions.
There are those who say that homeowners are responsible for the foreclosure crisis because they haven’t been paying their mortgages. Every foreclosure starts with a bank making a mortgage loan. Banks make money by giving mortgage loans to consumers. They make more money when they sell the loans to other banks. The banks that buy the loans make money when they contract with servicing companies to service these loans. When the underlying loans should not have been given to the consumer because the banks knew the consumer had no potential of making the loan payments, the banks bear the responsibility when the loans go bad.
Banks Knowingly Made Millions of Bad Loans
Banks made millions of loans in the United States to potential homeowners who had no potential of making the payments on these loans. They carelessly handled the paperwork and processing of these loans. Then when confronted with the mortgage crisis by President Obama, they said they would set up mortgage modification programs to help the beleaguered homeowners. Instead of setting up reasonable mortgage modification programs, the banks intentionally and incompetently set up under-financed, poorly managed programs that were doomed to fail. These programs, if they were properly and intelligently designed, operated and maintained, could have saved hundreds of thousands of salvageable mortgage loans.
Should you need help with a foreclosure, we are the law firm for you. We provide foreclosure defense for our clients. We handle mortgage modifications. Should you be served with a Summons and Complaint (legal documents in a foreclosure), we can represent you in these proceedings and keep you in your home. We also countersue banks for defective foreclosure lawsuits, predatory lending and bad faith. We attend foreclosure conferences and we litigate foreclosure proceedings on behalf of our clients. Feel free to contact us at 1-800-344-6431, 516-561-6645 or 718-350-2802.