Many clients come to me after being denied for a loan mod that they attempted to handle themselves. Lenders don’t always behave well during this process.

A New York investigation appears to center on the Steven J. Baum foreclosure firm headquartered in upstate New York and his servicing firm Pillar Processing. Here is the NY Times article on this breaking news.

The New York Law Journal through law.com is reporting on a major settlement with a plaintiff’s foreclosure firm:

Here is an article that discusses the profits being made by these non-profit companies that Congress made the watchdogs over bankrupt consumers. I have never met a Judge, Trustee, or another attorney who thinks that these counseling companies do anything useful. Nearly everyone views them and the process with disdain. For most clients who file […]

The NY Times has an interesting article on MERS – the company that owns 60 million loans in the nation but no one seems to know. Here is the article. Last month US Bankruptcy Judge Grossman on Long Island questioned the legal claim of MERS. Here is a Wall St Journal article discussing this. Here […]