Deutsche Bank: America's Foreclosure King

There is no question that the subprime mortgage crisis has been devastating for communities across the US.  Entire neighborhoods have been virtually abandoned as homeowners are forced to walk away from properties they can longer afford. For many Americans, the dream of owning one's home has become a nightmare. Many cities are now pleading to Washington for emergency aid:

“We’re the ones left boarding up these places, cutting their grass, doing demolition on the abandoned structures, picking up the trash, making sure no one breaks in,” said Mayor Frank Jackson of Cleveland.
Cuyahoga County, Ohio, which includes Cleveland, has more than 16,800 homes that have been abandoned because of foreclosures.

Cleveland is the first major city to file lawsuits against banks for their predatory lending practices that created this crisis in the first place.  At the top of the list  is Deutsche Bank, which foreclosed on more the 5,000 homes in the area so far. In another part of Ohio, Deutsche Bank has earned the ire of a community activist - Pete Witte - who is trying to preserve a section of Cincinnati from the widening epidemic of foreclosures:

The community activist, a Republican, reserves most of his anger for big banks, particularly Deutsche Bank, which serves as a large trustee for foreclosed homes in Ohio. An analysis by the local newspaper, the Cincinnati Enquirer, last November found that Deutsche Bank National Trust "owned" 188 homes in Hamilton County, more than anyone except for the federal government, and was taking on nine or 10 newly foreclosed properties a week. "Deutsche Bank doesn't show up, the city can't even find them. They almost act as if they don't own the property," Mr Witte says.

Nor are Deutsche Bank's foreclosure activities limited to Ohio.  A community activist organization in Boston - City Life/Vida Urbana - as been staging protests throughout the city to prevent the foreclosure eviction of homeowners.  The group has been putting up flyers around town warning against Deutsche Bank's business practices: Deutsche Bank Facts.

Comments

[Bob]

Visited Cleveland last month, and parts of the community are quite devastated. A major problem that's now looming is that property values will be reassessed downwards, lowering property taxes, leaving city budgets with even less money for services.

These sorts of images are becoming more and more common in Cleveland:

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[Foreclosure Expert]

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[Dan]

Definitely a reflection of the economy as a whole. Not only housing prices drop but the collapse of the credit markets. Eventually we will ride out this problem, but if you have cash now there are some bargains to be had.

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[Gary T. Balfe]

I recently purchased a Duetsch Bank foreclosure and resold it. I am a realtor in Monroe N.C. How can I get some of these homes in our area to list for sale through my company which is Prudential Carolinas Realty???

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[Oengus]

I believe the actual tax floats every three years, since it is not legal to raise taxes on property without a vote in OHIO. That is done with reduction factors resulting in an effective rate or the actual rate. Your taxes in dollars should not change! What should we call this thought of city coffers dwindling away because of this? A fallacy, a myth perhaps just sensationalism?

The losses in the coffers is because of pasts due taxes, which never ever get forgiven. They accrue like a big pot of money and then finally get paid, that’s done by the banks. If the bank takes the property in final foreclosure then they own it and all the liens, which include taxes against it.

Cities should be more proactive, getting on top of it and working with banks to expedite the transfers. They don’t they cry and complain, like babies.

It's all very stinky if you ask me, the taxes are not supposed to float on the market value, if a home increases 25% in one year and they can, the taxes can’t be allowed to also be raised on that variable. The lack of understanding of that and the State law is astounding! You are protected from unvoted increases in taxes by Ohio legislation known as House Bill 920. Passed in 1976, HB 920 reduces your rate as property values in your district increase during triennial reappraisals and updates.

People are not very smart, add a couple of percentages and decimals to a calculation and they are basically lost. The municipalities are loosing money because the taxes are not being paid, it has nothing to do with the depreciation. The have a reduction factor that will also adjust, every three years on the appraisals. But then again since relatively 99.9% of the population does not know this…they can do whatever they want.

Nearly all the TARP money will also come back to the federal government, they funded reserves, they funded required reserves.

People are still over paying for homes, the government may have instigated this to force the bubble to pop? The only way to get people to look and think, then they must be amazed by how reactive people and the market are, actually over reacting to the first TARP. It was to cover the required reserves, not to set it all in motion which is what it did, was that a GW goodbye kiss? What would he care. He is set for the rest of his life?

[Oengus]

The problem is that of the over valued assets, playing with DTI’s the market is artificially high? The 10% down and PMI still exists, that problematic like kicking the can down the street.

A good measure of value is the median household incomes, what you may see as a bargain may be actually closer to were it should be. They also have been throwing out a value for median family household incomes. I am not sure were they derive that? If the Median household is 50K then thats a bell shaped curve, with 34% either above or below. If they say the median family income is 75K it makes me wonder were do they get that it's outside of the curve? I can only rationalize that as a smaller percentage of two income homes that represent a curve in itself. That would be dispersed over the smaller 16% higher end end of the market.

Then if the median incomes meet the median prices as they need to in a healthy market we have 150K as median price. The median price for the nation was 190K in 2007. It's not to say all markets are off, but if they are it is like gravity forcing them down. The 10% down is so risky with many markets being 20% or more over valued.

If the homes are mostly 300K and the foreclosure is 200K, its not a bargain it actually priced correctly. If it's within a median household income of 50K then it at 200K is on the high end of average, anything over that can and would be competing for the smaller 16% population. The decreased interest rates temper that, but the fact is the high risk no cash for a down payment buyer is not there. But you can be sure the banks are still offering variable rates, and taking less than 10% down. But do not expect to turn the property it will not happen. But then again delusional worth is very powerful, people will deny the loss in value. That's because so many are over invested, they refuse to let go of it.

You still really have to know the market, what is the best in the area and what is not anything more than average. If it four bedrooms and 2.5 baths with an open floor plan and stainless steel appliances with granite counters. That’s not that uncommon these days, the prices of new all hover around $100.00 per square foot. That’s what the builders costs are not including land.

Keep them honest, if you’re a buyer. If you are a seller good luck, you need it.

[Ray Sabb]

Well I am loosing my house to Deutsche Bank et al / WAMU.
I just don't seem to understand how a bank I never made payments to is suing me for my house. I am going to ask them to produce the original note. Lets see how long that takes.

[David]

Ray,

Good luck, and make 'em produce the note!

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[Jody Monahan]

Deutsche bank owns the loan on our house (Wamu/Chase is the Servicer).I just got turned down for a loan modification (HAMP)after 8 months on a trial modification in which we paid on time each month and sent in all papers they requested;they kept loosing the papers, time and time again. Then just like that! denied our modification application due to "2 pages missing". They closed the books on us, said there was nothing they could do and now they want 16,000. dollars that we got behind in the 8 months of paying their suggested trial payments! I was told by a HUD employee that they (Chase & Deutsche) never intended on giving us a modification- they scammed us!

[DC]

Deutsche bank is worse than Bin Laden-- they have A Grennspan bought off and are intent on foreclosing-- SUE THE BASTARDS!

[Trina Sonnenberg]

They took my house

[David]

bastards!