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Down below is the opinion issued by New York judge in foreclosure case     ONEWEST BANK, F.S.B. V DRAYTON2010 NY SLIP OP 20429DECIDED ON OCTOBER 21, 2010SUPREME COURT, KINGS COUNTYSCHACK, J. ~ In this foreclosure action, plaintiff ONEWEST BANK, F.S.B. (ONEWEST), moved for an order of reference an...

Today, I read a great article in The Wall Street Journal regarding making Fannie and Freddie private. The article discuss how it has been successful in other counties and how the United States must follow this lead. Although I don't believe in laboring in the past but I must suggest that if we ar...

Today, in the Wall Street Journal, Dan Fitzpatrick (not related) reported that Bank of America acknowledged that there have been mistakes in their foreclosure processes. This is the first time BOA has made such a statement. According to the article, BOA discovered mistakes (10-25 of them) in the ...

Sometime ago, our office petitioned Governor Patrick and counsel to amend executive order 455 to include the following language "electronic notary". Our position is that there is absolutely no reason why we should not have electronic notaries. It is the 21st century. After presenting the situatio...

In this post, I wanted to give you some updated information concerning electronic land recordings in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Under our current registry system, the land records are divided into counties and the majority of the counties are under the ACS system. ACS, a company which hos...

Recently, I sent a proposal to Senator Kerry’s office looking for assistance. The proposal concerned the current housing problems in our state and across the country. In my proposal, we were trying to create a solution to troubled homeowners, including acquiring the troubled assets from the bank,...