Current mortgage rates are at an all-time low, but if you are wondering why this hasn’t provided the desired support for the housing market, look no further than the foreclosure documentation scandal that has recently rocked some prominent banks.
Recent revelations about faulty foreclosure documentation provide a window into the reality of how banks operate — and the view isn’t pretty.
The foreclosure documentation scandal — what it says about banks
Bank officials are supposed to personally verify the information on foreclosure documents before signing off on them. It turns out, though, that when faced with an overwhelming volume of foreclosures, some bank officials signed off on the documents automatically, without reviewing them — a practice that has become known as “robo-signing.”
Does this mean that the epidemic of foreclosures over the past couple years need not have occurred — that it was just a banking error? Unfortunately,
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