Well, we didn’t get a holiday from foreclosures during Christmas week, but it looks like most of the mortgage bankers’ lawyers decided to slack off on their final paperwork.
Only 81 sheriff’s deeds were filed with the Cuyahoga County Recorder’s Office last week (December 24 through December 28).
Here’s who filed five or more of them:
Department of [...]
Foreclosing Cleveland.
High on my list of traditional Cleveland blessings is Cousin Jimmy on WRUW every Saturday. (I can’t believe I have tape cassettes of that show from more than twenty years ago.)
The other day I dialed up Cousin Jimmy on the kitchen radio and immediately heard two of the all-time great Christmas songs: David [...]
183 sheriff’s deeds were filed with the Cuyahoga County Recorder’s Office last week (December 17 through December 21).
Here’s who filed five or more of them:
Deutsche Bank (19)
US Bank (19)
Wells Fargo (16)
Department of HUD (15)
Federal National Mortgage Assn (14)
HSBC Bank (11)
Bank of New York (8)
Household Realty (8)
JP Morgan Chase (7)
Third Federal (6)
(Previous week.)
Christmas Eve at the [...]
Calculated Risk quotes the Wall Street Journal:
“There’s been a change in social attitudes toward default,” Mr. [Bank of America CEO] Lewis says. Bankers typically have believed that cash-strapped borrowers would fall behind on their credit cards, car payments and other debts — but would regard mortgage defaults as calamities to be avoided at all costs. [...]
206 sheriff’s deeds were filed with the Cuyahoga County Recorder’s Office last week (December 10 through December 14).
Here’s who filed five or more of them:
Department of HUD (28)
Deutsche Bank (25)
Federal National Mortgage Assn (24)
US Bank (15)
Wells Fargo (14)
Bank of New York (10)
HSBC Bank (7)
Lasalle Bank (6)
Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp (5)
Household Realty (5)
(Previous week.)
Found here.
Turnout was extremely low and this is the only election going on in the county, so it should be over fast.
7:40 pm 0 OF 20 PRECINCTS REPORTED… FOR RECALL 265 AGAINST RECALL 126
(Interesting that absentee ballots favored Councilman Santiago’s recall by that big a margin.)
8:46 pm 12 OF 20 PRECINCTS [...]
Good coverage by Karen Schaefer, with pictures, at WKSU this morning.
WCPN this morning. Plain Dealer Monday. AP.
Over forty people representing at least seventeen of the twenty endorsing organizations showed up at Tina William’s house on East 112th yesterday morning. Mrs. Williams, a member of the Mount Pleasant chapter of ACORN, had her Chase-financed [...]
The Cleveland publishing event of the year, just in time for Christmas…
Randy Cunningham’s legendary history of the city’s neighborhood organizing era, Democratizing Cleveland, is finally off the presses.
Democratizing Cleveland is the result of almost fifteen years of research on a topic that has been missing from local works on Cleveland history: the community organizing movement [...]
Anastasia gets Kucinich to sign an Edwards petition at the Central Committee meeting.
(Not surprisingly, DJK got the party endorsement for re-election to Congress.)
P.S. I know what some of you are thinking. Yeah, yeah, you’re right, if he’s such a good sport he should agree to debate his primary opponents. Once we know who they all [...]