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Very weird $11M foreclosure in Atherton


From: R. 
To: ct@jwavro.com
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 11:09:27 AM
Subject: $28500 / 7br - Majestic French Chateaux - Atherton {photos} 650-490-3199 (atherton)

Did you know this property is almost a quarter million dollar behind on
payments and went into default in January?

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/apa/589787378.html

I'm not telling  you how to run your business, and you are in within your
rights to tell me to sod off, but IMHO, it doesn't *seem* like a
good business practice to represent distressed properties for rent that are
likely to go into foreclosure (at least without noting it in the Ad on
Craigslist).

http://od65selby.marindocs.com/images/pdf/features.pdf

R.

65 SELBY LN, ATHERTON, CA, 94027-3926


APN: 059-302-070

SAN MATEO COUNTY

Zestimate

$5,683,000.00

Type

Single Family

Sq Ft

10,070

Equity

($1,901,976.34)

Year Built

2006

Lot Size

40,075

Assessed Value

$5,966,865.00

Beds/Baths

6/8.50

Pool

No

Land Value

$2,866,865.00

Rooms

17

HVAC

No

Imp. Value

$3,100,000.00

Garage

Fireplace

No

Annual Taxes

$64,575.56

Legal Desc

1 AC ON SELY LINE OF SELBY LANE COM 1597 FT SWLY FR STATE HWY PTN OF LOT A SELBY TRACT RSM 10/29 30 TOWN OF ATHERTON

 

Foreclosure Details

Doc #

2704

TS #

A350161-CA

Rec. Date

01/10/08

Default Amt.

$214,976.34

 

Owner

Lender

Trustee

YH1 LLC
OAKLAND, CA94618-2330
94618-2330

BETTYE B JACKSON
9300 FLAIR DR FL 2ND
EL MONTE, CA91731-2802

EAST-WEST INVESTMENT INC
N/AVAIL

Transaction History

Type

Document

Party

Name

Amount

Transfer

AB55564
07/01/68

Seller
Buyer

Prior Sale
Unknown

Transfer

46578
03/12/02

Seller
Buyer

SROKA TRUST
YH1 LLC

$2,600,000.00

Loan

46579
03/12/02

Borrower
Lender

YH1 LLC
CUPERTINO NAT'L BK&TR

$1,750,000.00

Loan

139498
09/15/06

Borrower
Lender

YH 1 LLC
BETTYE B JACKSON

$7,370,000.00

   - Default

2704
01/10/08

Borrower
Trustee

YH 1 LLC
EAST-WEST INVESTMENT INC


From: Chuck Totah [mailto:chastot@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 11:46 AM
To: R.
Subject: Re: $28500 / 7br - Majestic French Chateaux - Atherton {photos} 650-490-3199 (atherton)

I was unaware of this and I will look into it.

Thank You,

Chuck Totah
J.Wavro Associates
(650) 490-3199


From: Patrick [mailto:p@patrick.net] Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 6:51 PM To: R. Subject: Re: $28500 / 7br - Majestic French Chateaux - Atherton {photos} 650-490-3199 (atherton) Thanks R. It's really weird. It looks kind of like someone borrowed a boatload of money against it and ran away. Patrick
On Feb 28, 2008, at 8:17 PM, R. wrote: Yeah. To the tune of $8MM. No wonder it's for sale for $11 Million. http://od65selby.marindocs.com/ YH 1 LLC (borrower) is listed in the phone book as Real Estate Investment Trust with the same address, but the actual company sells toilet paper made from renewable sources when you trace back the LLC owner. I know there is a joke somewhere in that. R.
From: Patrick [mailto:p@patrick.net] Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2008 4:23 PM To: R. Subject: Re: $28500 / 7br - Majestic French Chateaux - Atherton {photos} 650-490-3199 (atherton) Wow, toilet paper? That has to be a joke. How did you figure out they make toilet paper? Patrick
On Mar 2, 2008, at 6:25 PM, R. wrote: It took 30 minutes on the net looking through public documents. YH 1 LLC looks like a shell company from the outside looking in. Hard to say, but it looks like the LLC was setup solely and exclusively to buy 65 Selby Lane. And the more I dig, the more I am confused and suspicious. Here are some odd findings: YH 1 LLC owns 65 Selby Lane. A home for sale worth a purported $11 Million. The owner and principal name of YH 1 LLC is Mr. Ni Yen Gee Mr. Ni Yen Gee lists himself as the CEO and Director of LGP Paper, in addition to the principal for YH 1 LLC, both in San Francisco. LGP Paper does not exist according the State of California. LGP Paper's address, according to their own website and Mr. Ni Yen Gee's own business card, is 1698 Fell Street, San Francisco, CA 94102 1698 Fell Street is a Chevron Gas Station! YH 1 LLC lists their business address with the State of California as 1648 UNION STREET STE 101 1648 UNION STREET STE 101 is an architectural firm (no apparent affiliation to YH 1 LLC) YH 1 LLC lists their service address as 7 WOODMONT WAY, in Oakland. According to donation records for the RNC, a Dr. Floyd Fortuin lives at 7 WOODMONT WAY, in Oakland. No apparent relation. Nothing for YH 1 traces to any apparently valid address or business, except it lists in the yellow pages as an investment company. As far as I could find, the owner of 65 Selby Lane is the CEO of an undocumented, unregistered Paper company running out of a Chevron Gas Station. The property was purchased and a ton of cash was pulled out. Not uncommon, but the odd thing is, I remember this house sitting empty and for sale for a long time, and now for rent. I don't have the documents to support it, just my memory, but I don't think the house was ever lived in. Everything after this point is conjecture, and speculation. I think the property was purchased just to pull cash out of. The owner did exactly that. As a matter of fact, the owner took out cash to the tune of $1.7 Million the very month they purchased it. Maybe that's how they made payments. Then they pulled out a whopping $7.3 Million and went into default 16 months later. Where did the cash go? Just a lot of odd things. I remembered seeing 65 Selby for sale, then I saw it on Craigslist to rent. It didn't click until I saw it on forclosureradar.com. R.