by ilene - October 18th, 2010 11:23 am
Courtesy of Joe Weisenthal at The Business Insider
A lot of the attention has been paid to Bank of America’s mortgage repurchase liability, but obviously it’s not the only one.
ZeroHedge obtained an internal memo from Wells Fargo detailing the banks new procedures to handle what may be a flood of repurchase requests, as end investors use fraud allegations and sloppy paperwork to demand refunds on the mortgages they bought from the bank.
Here’s the gist:
Step 1
Wells Fargo receives a deficiency notice or demand from the investor. Typically, Wells Fargo has 60 days to resolve the issue.
Step 2
Wells Fargo notifies the Seller and provides supporting documentation when available. At this time, the Seller is given twenty-one calendar days to provide an explanation, facts or documentation to demonstrate that the mortgage loan complies with the requirements. If the Seller does not respond within 14 days of the initial notice, Wells Fargo will follow up with the Seller.
Step 3
Wells Fargo will begin internal research (concurrently with Step 2) to resolve the loan issues. During this process, Wells Fargo will determine if there is a missing document and if the document can be located.
For all other issues, Wells Fargo will perform research to
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by ilene - November 30th, 2009 9:15 pm
Developer and commercial real estate (CRE) investor Mr. Solmon discusses how the once overheated CRE market froze over.
By Ilene
Mr. Solmon (name changed) is a CRE veteran with 40 years of experience developing commercial real estate in 15 states and has kindly agreed to be interviewed about the current conditions in the CRE market.
Ilene: Thanks for doing this interview with me. Rumors of continuous heating up in the CRE market, didn’t exactly pan out. What are you seeing in the CRE market now?
Mr. Solmon: CRE is undergoing deleveraging with the rest of the economy, debts are being reduced or going into default. Large numbers of projects are not cash flowing and will have to be liquidated, or ownership will have to be transferred. Concurrently, there’s an oversupply caused by the same ill advised financing that led to the overbuilding.
Ilene: Did you see this happening?
Mr. Solmon: Yes we knew, and so did everyone else. Most people make a decision based on what they can get out of it in the short term. It’s the collective crowd behavior problem. Why do the lemmings jump over the cliff? It seems like a good idea till they get to the cliff – they keep being rewarded, till they’re not. Like the stock market, people invest because it keeps going up, without knowing when to get out, when the market’s going to crash. It’s a justifiable course of action as long as the market goes up and there are no losses. You can argue that the players didn’t really lose because the government bailed out a lot of the participants. Taxpayers lost the most.
Ilene: How far into the decline are we now?
Mr. Solmon: So far about 25%. A lot has been recognized. And it’s no longer a surprise. Some properties have already been foreclosed out. There are a lot of vacancies. I think a further substantial group of commercial properties will get foreclosed. I don’t see it leveling off for another few years because of the problems of contraction, debt, and oversupply. Oversupply in real estate doesn’t get worked off, the buildings have to be used. Less consumption and less business mean less demand. Creative financing, excessive easy money caused the oversupply, caused hyped…

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