{"id":188152,"date":"2010-12-01T20:31:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T01:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/12\/01\/i-was-wondering-when-this-would-happen\/"},"modified":"2010-12-01T20:31:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-02T01:31:00","slug":"i-was-wondering-when-this-would-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/12\/01\/i-was-wondering-when-this-would-happen\/","title":{"rendered":"I Was Wondering When This Would Happen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The deed recorder for South Essex, Massachusetts <a href=\"http:\/\/news.firedoglake.com\/2010\/12\/01\/county-recorder-in-massachusetts-goes-after-mers\/\">asking for an investigation of MERS to see if they illegally evaded recording fees for mortgage assignments<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cIt\u2019s a basic issue of fairness. MERS says that if you are a member of their club, you can avoid fees on assignments of mortgages forever. Those are fees that everyone else pays,\u201d<\/span> [deed recorder John] <span style=\"color: blue;\">O\u2019Brien said. \u201cI\u2019ve never before heard of a private company that has attempted to unilaterally take over such a public function as property recordation. Imagine if someone tried to do this with drivers licenses.\u201d<\/span> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Silly man, don&#8217;t you know?&nbsp; The banksters don&#8217;t have to obey the laws!<\/p>\n<p>Here is hoping that he gets his investigation, and he nails those bastards to the wall.<\/p>\n<p>H\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eschatonblog.com\/2010\/12\/fees.html\">Atrios<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The deed recorder for South Essex, Massachusetts asking for an investigation of MERS to see if they illegally evaded recording fees for mortgage assignments: \u201cIt\u2019s a basic issue of fairness. MERS says that if you are a member of their club, you can avoid fees on assignments of mortgages forever. Those are fees that everyone &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1004,1088,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-real-estate","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}