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Borrowers And Bankruptcy Trustees’ Unsuccessful Attempts To Avoid A Mortgage Under The “Splitting-The-Note” Theory, Alana Friedberg

Bankruptcy Research Library

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In 1993, the mortgage industry created the electronic database Mortgage Electronic Registration System (“MERS”) in order to “track ownership interests in residential mortgages.” MERS “serves as the mortgagee in the land records for loans registered on the MERS System, and is a nominee (or agent) for the owner of the promissory note.” To date, MERS holds title to around 60 million home mortgages, about half of all home mortgages in the United States.

Borrowers and bankruptcy trustees have attempted unsuccessfully to argue a mortgage or deed of trust is void if a third party, such as MERS, was designated …

Who Wins Residential Property Tax Appeals?, Randall K. Johnson

Journal Articles

This article explains who wins residential property tax appeals in Cook County, Illinois. It does so by collecting and combining public sector data, which has been recently released by the Cook County Assessor. The article then uses this data to compute three statistics. Lastly, it contextualizes each statistic in order to determine if some townships, or groups of townships, win more appeals than expected