The Independent Foreclosure Review Gets Fail Whale
At first glance, it looks like Florida foreclosure victims are finally getting the help they need from the feds. Reading the fine print it looks like if we had to describe this in one tweet word: #fail. The same banksters that sunk the economic ship into the mortgage crisis are now the decision makers for homeowners looking for foreclosure mercy. Sounds to us like homeowners are being asked to sleep with the enemy.
What is the Independent Foreclosure Review? –According to the official website
As part of a consent order with federal bank regulators, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS) (independent bureaus of the U.S. Department of the Treasury), or the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, fourteen mortgage servicers and their affiliates are identifying customers who were part of a foreclosure action on their primary residence during the period of January 1, 2009 to December 31, 2010.
The Independent Foreclosure Review is providing homeowners the opportunity to request an independent review of their foreclosure process. If the review finds that financial injury occurred as a result of errors, misrepresentations or other deficiencies in the servicer’s foreclosure process, the customer may receive compensation or other remedy.
Oppenheim Law Says Faulty Failure? The Independent Foreclosure Plan
Unfortunately, the government has again come up with yet another faulty plan to try and help homeowners by creating the Independent Foreclosure Review. It’s objective is to compensate homeowners who sustained financial injury because of the banks unethical and even illegal banking practices.
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