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Untangling Florida's foreclosure crisis

St. Petersburg Times

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Produced by: Kris Hundley, Susan Taylor Martin, Ilyce Meckler, Catriona Stuart, Carrie Pratt, Maurice Rivenbark Lee Glynn

tags: foreclosure, MERS, Mortgages, 2011

Florida's foreclosure crisis seems like a never-ending nightmare. Mortgages are caught up in MERS, an electronic database that most homeowners never heard of until the foreclosure crisis. Homeowners in foreclosure are worried that robo signing by lenders' employees may have led to mortgage fraud. The mortgage process itself is under scrutiny by the courts and government regulators who are asking: How could something so simple as a home loan go so terribly wrong?

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