EDS to Build and Run an Electronic Mortgage Registry ...

Now we have no idea who owns the paperwork," says Persten, an appliance salesman in West Palm Beach, Fla. "If I won the lotto, I'd pay off my mortgage, but I don't know who to pay." Persten's confusion is shared by other homeowners who are fighting foreclosure by challenging the legal powers of MERS, a company set up by the mortgage industry ... ................
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