Those videos would be very useful to a bankruptcy trustee trying to determine the extent of the estate's non-exempt assets especially if DSP "forgets" to mention them.
Honestly, I don't think they'd do anything or even care really. It's the lawyers that are really on the hook for the filing, so they are pretty thorough.
This is why I think that even if he files for bankruptcy, he's going to somehow fuck it up. He'll try and hide some tiny payment somewhere or lose it when he's told what his budget is.
EDIT: Quoted the wrong person.
He pretty much can't fuck it up. The lawyers are the ones on the hook.
One of the reasons I declared bankruptcy was because I paid my divorce settlement to my ex-wife. It wasn't much, like $10k and it was a decade ago. I gave her 3500 cash back then, and then made a few big payments. She decides, 10 years later, to pretend I didn't pay anything and I didn't have every receipt.
Now, Texas is kind of a debtors paradise. She couldn't just file some papers to attach to my house, cars, or garnish my money because she lived up north so here that's considered a 'foreign debt'. The only entities that can attach to real property or assets is the federal government and Texas state gov, that's it. But that doesn't mean I could give her the finger. She hired some law firm and they did the only thin they could do - endless discoveries. It got annoying. So I said fuck it, bankruptcy.
Now in my divorce decree it was stated that this money I owed her couldn't be defaulted on. Well, since it wasn't childcare, that was an unenforceable clause. I own a 'luxury performance vehicle'. When this stuff was going down I'd send her emails every now and then telling her "Screw that car I owned, have you seen the new BMW M8? It's unbelievable - so incredibly fast, and so damn comfortable you could drive it forever. Then a few months later I said "Nah screw that, if you can afford an Audi R8 you are doing yourself a disservice if you don't get one"
I never said I
owned those cars, I just said they were awesome. At the final hearing about bankruptcy her lawyer started asking me if I owned this car, or that car, or this - I didn't even get a chance to answer before the Judge and lawyer put him in his place. It was glorious.
And then I defaulted on the structured payments after 2 months, so they just canceled the bankruptcy. And she's none the wiser. Just a tip you might want to keep in your head.
Thing is, the lawyer handled everything and made sure everything was done right. The only thing we could have done to fuck it up is A. Not pay the monthly amount for the chapter 13 or B. Not report an income increase or decrease immediately to the lawyer. And they make it known that you might be able to not say anything for a year or so, but if the court finds out and then comes to you it's a big ass 'possible jail time' perjury thing. So I doubt Dave would fuck it up - especially since he has more riding then some bitch exwife, he's got the balance of a $101,000 loan. And Washington is A-OK with foreign debt being attached to in-state.
Other condos in the building have sold in the past year:
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DSP's unit is 600 sq ft. He can expect a foreclosure auction to earn a lot less than the price these units are selling at; homes at foreclosure auctions can go for as much as 50% of their fair market value and it's entirely possible this unit will sell reach that extreme if it's really as shitty of an area as DSP claims. If it's sold at 25% below fair market value the deficiency will be between $38K and $50.5K. His mortgage insurance carrier will probably cover all of it but can require the lender to go after him before they'll pay and can alternatively go after him themselves after they pay. It's entirely possible DSP has talked to a competent attorney and is gambling on advise that the insurance carrier will pay the deficiency and not go after him.
By the way, I've found that the lender had the option to foreclose after three monthly installments were unpaid and was required to foreclose if six monthly installments were unpaid unless a law prohibited it.
I was wondering if he even had PMI, because that place was cheap enough that 20% down wouldn't have been that hard. But that's before he hit his YouTube peak, and it sounded like an impulse buy so I wonder if he had it all to put down. Actually I could go find out if it was an FHA loan too if I wanted to but I don't care that much.