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After some reflection, legal research and analysis I have come to the conclusion that a very good way for homeowners to put tracks in the sand that they can use later with success is to use the following protocol — subject to the opinion of local counsel:
- Send QWR and DVL to “servicer” and nobody else. Under statutes, service to one is service to all anyway.
- In cases where the creditor is either asserted or implied to be a bank as trustee for a REMIC trust, send a second QWR and DVL to the trustee expressly demanding that they acknowledge that they are in fact the creditor who purchased the alleged underlying obligation and that they have a record of such purchase.
- After receiving an evasive answer, file an FDCPA suit against the trustee only alleging that it is renting its name to third parties who are using it to collect money on the fake premise that money is owed to them.
- As an alleged debtor, if there is a change in who is allowed to collect the debt, the debtor is entitled to receive direct notice from the old creditor that they are not the creditor anymore and that the new creditor has been identified. You never received that notice from the old creditor. You went the extra step of asking for it. You still didn’t get the answer.
- For transactions in which the homeowner is treated as current, you want to deposit the money into the court registry until they comply with the statute. ANd you want fees, costs and statutory damages.
- In judicial states, file a motion for summary judgment (not an affirmative defense) along with an affidavit that asserts that the bank trustee and the trust have failed to produce any proof of payment for the underlying obligation and an affidavit from the homeowner stating failure to receive notice of change of creditor and failure to receive notice of appointment of the servicer from the old creditor or the new creditor. An unsigned notice that comes from the servicer is not notice from the old creditor — by definition. It is a company proclaiming itself to be the servicer without identifying its authority to make that announcement.
- In all cases after a Notice of Default is issued, litigation should include declaratory and injunctive relief to declare the notice invalid and enjoin the would-be servicer from issuing such notices absent acknowledgment from an officer of the bank that serves as a trustee of the REMIC trust that the bank maintains a trust accounting ledger on which the debt from the homeowner is reported as an asset of the REMIC trust —- and in which the Trustee has appointed the “servicer” to act as servicer and that the servicer does, in fact, handle money receipts and disbursements of payments from homeowners such that the servicer is the actual recipient of such funds and is the actual disbursement agent of such funds.
- In nonjudicial cases, the same protocol would be appropriate in my opinion.
The object of this protocol is to undermine the premise that the proceeds of foreclosure sales go to creditors who are reducing an asset that they paid for and to offset the loss from failure to receive scheduled payments. You don’t have to believe it or understand it. Just use it!
PRACTICE HINT: Do not attempt to prove an allegation that the debt does not exist or that the parties seeking to enforce have no authority to do so. Limit the attack to the ability of the foreclosure mill to produce required proof of payment that is required when a debtor makes the challenge. Do nothing that puts the burden of proof on the homeowner. Make no allegation of fact except that you asked and failed to receive the notices you were supposed to get.
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Neil F Garfield, MBA, JD, 74, is a Florida licensed trial and appellate attorney since 1977. He has received multiple academic and achievement awards in business and law. He is a former investment banker, securities broker, securities analyst, and financial analyst.
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