Posted on 03/05/2012 9:56:07 AM PST by reaganaut1
The eviction from their million-dollar home could come at any moment. Keith and Janet Ritter have been bracing for it — and battling against it — almost from the moment they moved into the five-bedroom, 4,900-square-foot manse along the Potomac River in Fort Washington.
In five years, they have never made a mortgage payment, a fact that amazes even the most seasoned veterans of the foreclosure crisis.
The Ritters have kept the sheriff at bay by repeatedly filing for bankruptcy and by exploiting changes in Maryland’s laws designed to help delinquent homeowners avoid foreclosure.
Those efforts to protect homeowners have transformed Maryland’s foreclosure process from one of the country’s shortest to one of the longest. It now takes on average 634 days to complete a foreclosure in Maryland, compared with 132 days in Virginia.
Champions of Maryland’s system, including Gov. Martin O’Malley (D), credit it with driving down the state’s foreclosure rate and helping thousands of victims of predatory lending, fraud and other abuses hang on to their homes.
“The market won’t fix itself,” said Anne Norton, Maryland’s deputy commissioner for financial regulations. “By the time it does, how many homeowners will be churned up and spit out by the machine?”
Critics, including economists and lenders, blame the state’s go-slow approach for a growing backlog of foreclosures and a weak-to-nonexistent recovery in home prices. To them, the system puts too much emphasis on helping individual homeowners and not enough on quickly clearing the market of foreclosures so prices can rebound and hard-hit communities can recover. And they say it also creates opportunities for abuse by those determined to drag the process out for as long as possible.
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My younger sister has not made a mortgage payment on her home in almost three years now. It is looking like foreclosure will be happening in the next couple of months, though.
At which point she will move out and move on. In the Seattle market, her home is still worth a LOT less than she owes on it.
A pair of crooks who stole the use of a million dollar home for five years, and who basically stole the interest for five years on a million dollar loan. They ought to be publically executed as an object lesson to other mortgage scammers.
The aggrieved/entitlement mentality at work. They were taught well.
There’s a photo at the link.
Yeah cause those banks would never use the legal system for their benefit
these people give the term “grifters” a bad name
This should be criminal.
Single page view.
Basically, the Ritters were successful in gaming the system. Till the system broke and they became deadbeats.
My cousin and her husband bought a house that had been "owned" by a grifter like these two.
According to her, the guy moved in, didn't make a single payment for over a year, and prior to moving out, he striped it to the sheetrock.
Heh, prior conviction for mortgage fraud.
Here’s how this guy did it.
‘started out with a 300k home with nothing down.’
Borrowed against that home with the 300k loan to buy other houses and start flipping them.
Does this sound like a scammer to you?
Why aren’t they smiling? Not paying rent/mortgage for 5 years, I’d be happy as a clam!
They these spoiled brats got to live on the hog and we should feel sorry for them why?
Ah, now I get it. Race based entitlement.
thousands of people did that
but supposedly the govt forced teh banks to make those crappy loans. I’m sure the banks didnt do it for the insane profits they were making.
I generally don’t approve of deficiency judgments. If the lender was dumb enough to loan you more than the house is actually worth, that’s their problem. This is an exception. As the lender, i would go after these deadbeats forever. Their intent was fraudulent, and they should be unable to hold any assets without fear that the assets will be taken from them - for the rest of their lives unless they pay back what they stole. Liberals like this disgust me.
In five years, they have never made a mortgage payment,Yeah, of course it's not their fault, it's the fault of those mean old blanks all right. Those mean old banks forced them to move into a home that they obviously could not afford. forced them to stay there without paying etc.
Y'all obviously need to brush up on your economics, because if (and I suspect it's a big if) y'all actually work for a living and pay taxes YOU are supporting these two a..hole deabeats. These two deadbeats are examples of the 0bama entitlement mentality. Nice to know that at least a couple a freepers support that mindset.
As always you have the personal attacks on a hair trigger.
way to go
Y’all obviously need to brush up on your economics...
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Read my reply in post 11. Read it again slowly. Did I post even one single fact that wasn’t true?
You - however - obviously need to brush up on your Constitution. We don’t execute folks for simply being criminals.
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