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In reply to the discussion: Fannie Mae claims to have owned my mortgage a month BEFORE we bought the house! [View all]Samantha
(9,314 posts)25. Yes, not the original mortgage but those bundled and backed by securities
See my post below.
Additionally, when this issue arose in Florida, it was discovered that MERS by virtue of the way it was created, was never intended to "own" any title. The reason for that is the lenders did not want to have to pay IRS taxes on a profit. But when companies started going belly up that held the actual mortgage, title was dumped onto MERS anyway, which the State of Florida (excuse me, it was either Florida or Kentucky) revealed should never have been done.
There were a lot of things that happened during that period of time which were unorthodox and adversely impacted innocent homeowners. That is all I am saying, and I do believe the articles that were published at that time substantiated that.
Sam
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Fannie Mae claims to have owned my mortgage a month BEFORE we bought the house! [View all]
dixiegrrrrl
Jul 2013
OP
Thank you again DirkGently. So the individual has no guarantee regarding the Title
ms.smiler
Jul 2013
#47
Yes, but a lot of transactions were not recorded with the Recorder of Deeds locally
Samantha
Jul 2013
#10
Samantha, how about you compare MERS cute little theory about the lack of a need to
ms.smiler
Jul 2013
#29
Ms. Smiler, in a must-record state the original documents are usually done in MERS name.
Yo_Mama
Jul 2013
#32
Not if there was a MERS transfer, which is what happened to my friend's mortgage, twice!
sabrina 1
Jul 2013
#20
We are a nation of clouded property Titles because of fraud, securitization and MERS.
ms.smiler
Jul 2013
#18