Most of the time I post articles & don't  get around to actually reading them  until weeks later.  This article was the exception.  Fascinating look into the company actually doing the nuts & bolts mortgage fraud investigations & how interesting  it is to read the proof of what many of us believed during the go-go years.  I recorded deal after deal after deal, where I wondered why they just didn't include an Order of Notice along with the deeds & mortgages I was putting on record. 

I actually did the title  for a person who bought a largeish parcel for $250K; refinanced it once a year for 10 years (including new equity lines each year) for ever increasing amounts; until the final mortgage for $750K; which went right into foreclosure six months after I put that mortgage on record.  The bank bid $400 at the sale & ended up selling the property two years later for around $225K.    Pitiful.