As the financial and housing markets headed toward freefall in September of 2008, an enterprising homeowner named Kyung Ha Chung applied for two loans, from two lenders, to be secured by two deeds of trust against her house.  The problem was, she didn’t tell the two lenders about each other, and signed the two deeds of trust on the same day, before two different notaries.

How The Problem Arose:  Document Batches Recorded Together