Banking Misconduct Blog

Michael Masters is a true American hero. An Army soldier who served during the Gulf War, Michael is a 100% disabled veteran. Like many wounded warriors, he found it difficult to assimilate back into civilian life. Today he is homeless and struggling to get back on his feet.
Michael survives...

Last April, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced a lawsuit against Ocwen and its subsidiaries for “failing borrowers at every stage of the mortgage servicing process.” The CFPB’s statement claimed that “Ocwen’s years of widespread errors, shortcuts, and...

A federal judge in Sacramento, California has given Bank of America a lesson in corporate responsibility. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Klein sanctioned America's "Too Big to Care" banking giant up to $46 million for causing severe emotional distress to a California couple facing foreclosure. In the...

[Spoiler Alert – There is hope for borrowers fighting banks who failed to deliver on a promised refinancing.]

The failure of banks to deliver on a promised modification or refinancing is one of the most frequent complaints we hear from commercial borrowers. In the typical...

January 2017 was another bad month for CMBS delinquencies. The percentage of loans financed with commercial mortgage backed securities that are now considered delinquent once again creeped over 3.00%. According to the trade publication Mortgage Daily, the long term outlook is even bleaker.
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Most states have a Deceptive Trade Practices Act. These laws typically prohibit “unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices.” The first state to enact such a law was Massachusetts in 1967. Today just over half the states have enacted similar laws.
The...

Trepp, LLC, the leading source of analytics to the Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities (CMBS) industry, issued a press release this week and the news isn’t good. According to the company, the US CMBS delinquency rate soared to new highs.

We have long warned TIC groups and...

We have written many articles on this blog highlighting the myriad of problems facing borrowers with projects financed by Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities (CMBS) loans. Most of these loans were written in 2006 and 2007 and carried a 10 year loan term. That means they are coming due now or in...

TIC investors don’t get much sleep these days. The recent conviction of Carlton Cabot may have put one of the most notorious TIC promoters behind bars but there is still a tremendous amount of bad behavior involving tenant in common financed real estate projects. In this post, we will discuss...

Back in 2006, investing in the Little Rock Regions Bank Building sounded like a great deal. That year, the real estate market nationwide was quite hot. Few knew that within two years, the bubble would burst. In September of that year, a company called NNN 400 Capitol Center and several dozen...