Elizabeth Warren Wants to Simplify Your Mortgage Paperwork" alt="Elizabeth Warren Wants to Simplify Your Mortgage Paperwork" />

When I saw that Elizabeth Warren had begun her duties as President Obama's consumer-protection watchdog by holding a forum Tuesday on simplifying mortgage paperwork, one of the first things that popped into my head was a neat trick that a few mortgage professionals liked to pull back in the heady days of the home-loan ... Continue Reading »

Mortgage Fraud: The Untold Story of the Housing Meltdown" alt="Mortgage Fraud: The Untold Story of the Housing Meltdown" />

Was the financial crisis caused by "systemic failure" or mortgage fraud? Or a combination of the two? And why are so many American homeowners still paying the price? When Travis Paules worked as a branch manager for American General Finance in Pennsylvania in the late 1990s, he tried to do things by the book. He didn't ... Continue Reading »