Bank of America gets caught with their hand in the cookie jar and blames Countrywide.
But doesn’t Bank of America own Countrywide? Yes!
When Bank of America took over Countrywide in 2008 during the worst housing crash since the Great Depression, according to Bloomberg, BofA absorbed Balboa Insurance. Essentially, Balboa Insurance…now owned and operated by BofA, is insuring their own bad debt.
What does this mean? Bank of America’s “Countrywide Loans” that have been defaulted against by homeowners are insured, meaning Bank of America is feeling no pain and actually is gaining from this type of bad debt. Meaning that BofA is in no hurry to sell bad debt. That’s why there is “Shadow Inventory” and Short Sales are taking so long to approve for sale. There’s no hurry when your making money.
Why Bank of America is gaining on a defaulted loan? It seems that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) uncovered “scamming” on behalf of “Countrywide” last month. Remember, Bank of America bought/took over, what ever you want to call it, Countrywide at the Federal Governments request.
What was the scamming?
Countrywide had established Balboa Insurance to cover their home loans gone bad. In an effort to help defray these losses on bad loans, Balboa Insurance and Countrywide would over charge the now defaulted homeowner for any related services to the default…like mowing the lawns, maintenance of the home, painting, etc…yes, Countrywide in it’s need to make money, charged up to 2 times the amount back to the homeowner for these services. This is in clear violation to FTC guidelines as it pertains to loan servicing.
So what?
Well, Millions and millions of dollars have been scammed from the clients that they hold a fiduciary responsibility. Kinda like Bernie Madoff screwing his own clients out of their money. Well, it’s now 2 years later, and Bank of America “Countrywide” division has been caught red handed. However, no one is being held responsible. Why?
BofA was helping out the Feds by taking over the Countrywide catastrophe and with that comes immunity. Above the law stuff…”you do us a favor, no one will suffer.”
Know that BofA has been caught, the new CEO, Brian Moynihan stated earlier this month that they have a “desire” to sell Balboa Insurance. Desire? What does that mean?
C’mon…let’s be real. BofA makes tons of money on bad loans. That’s why it takes so freakin’ long to get a BofA short sale approved! That’s why there is “shadow Inventory”!
So what happens next?
As soon as CEO Moynihans “desire” is fulfilled and Bolboa is sold…it should open the flood gates to short sales and release of “shadow inventory”.
It’s good news…however, no one person is held responsible. No one goes to jail.
Do the Feds a “solid” and your protected!
