Damn... and now look what Padilla is posting... more proof us nutters are right...
<a href="http://mortgage.freedomblogging.com/2009/08/29/record-8000-mortgages-set-for-foreclosure/16717/">Record 8,000 mortgages face foreclosure</a>
<em>There were 8,346 outstanding foreclosure auction notices in Orange County at the end of July, up 12% from June and more than double the year ago total, reports ForeclosureRadar.com.
I previously blogged the July total (it has been revised slightly), but I now have a chart showing the rise in active notices of trustee?s sale (NTS) since the credit crunch got serious in September ?06 (click on it twice for larger image.). An NTS is filed on a home loan after a notice of default and it announces a property will face a foreclosure auction to pay off debt owed.</em>
http://mortgage.freedomblogging.com/files/2009/08/auction-notices-big-chart.jpg
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Sean O?Toole, president of ForeclosureRadar, said not all auction notices result in foreclosure, though most do.
However, the data is skewed because of the Obama administration?s mortgage modification plan, he said. An unknown portion of the active NTS are likely people in the trial modification period, he said.
And the political environment has changed. Where regulators once pushed banks to deal promptly with bad loans, now they are focused on helping people avoid foreclosure ? at least according to their public statements ? O?Toole said.
In such a climate loan servicers and banks can take their time dealing with bad loans.
O?Toole also speculated lenders that retained servicing rights to loans may fear being sued by investors. As servicers foreclose on more home loans losses will mount, and investors will notice.
He said investor litigation could rival the tobacco trials and Congressional hearings, with lenders swearing they never thought the loans would default. Interesting analogy.
In any case, the NTS total fits with my previous post on the rise in loans at least 90 days late.</em>
Newport Debtor, er payment skipper... you're not disproving this brain-thrust (spelled correctly this time for you) are you now when more and more and more and more and more and more factual data comes out proving you are just full of... well... Kool-Aid filled air. ROFL! Dopes!