SAF I Fund Facts September 2009

We are pleased to inform you that that are July returns are 4.1%.

To read our complete investors letter please do so HERE.

Additional Recommended Reading

SAF I Fund Fact Sheet August  2009

As always we welcome your comments and questions. We look forward to hearing from you.

David Gruebele & Richard Zahm, principals Second Angel Bancorp

We are pleased to inform you that that are July returns are 8.0%. You’ll notice that we have been able to maintain this return for the past four months.

To read our complete investors letter please do so HERE.

Additional Recommended Reading

SAF I Fund Fact Sheet July 2009

SAF Comparison Graphs: Inception through July 2009

As always we welcome your comments and questions. We look forward to hearing from you.

David Gruebele & Richard Zahm, principals Second Angel Bancorp

We are pleased to inform you that that are June returns are 8.0%. You’ll notice that we have been able to maintain this return for the past three months as we continue to increase our loan loss reserves.

To read our complete investors letter please do so HERE.

Additional Recommended Reading

RIA SAF Introduction June 2009

SAF I Fund Fact Sheet June 2009

SAF Comparison Graphs: Inception through June 2009

Also don’t forget to check out Richard Zahm’s most recent published piece from the Scotsman Guide How Lenders Look Beyond LTV; Scotsman Guide Commercial Edition June 2009

As always we welcome your comments and questions. We look forward to hearing from you.

David Gruebele & Richard Zahm, principals Second Angel Bancorp

• SAB Returns $6.67/share or 8.0% annualized net to investors in April; 10.9% compounded average returns; 30.9% cumulative return since inception
• Equity markets improve
• Better times predicted ahead

Dear Investor:

We’re pleased to inform you that your April distribution is $6.67 per share or annualized at 8%. The year-to-date distributions now total 3.84% (which is a 9.2% annual yield). You’ll notice that this months’ return is within 8 cents/share in comparison to last month. We recently have further increased our reserve allocations towards loan loss as a result of a few borrowers (or tenants of these borrower’s properties) that are making slower payments. This trend is on our watch list so an increase to reserves is a move we feel is prudent.

Our performance statistics are attached and can also be seen online. We’re again including comparative graphs of our performance vs a selection of other indices. This month, for comparative purposes only, CD Rates (3-month term/$25,000). Note that SAF I returns are not insured by the FDIC:

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Second Angel Fund I Fact Sheet – May 2009

• CD Rates vs SAF I

• Quick Observations: Funds Remain a Core Investment

• Signs of a Bottom

• Things Are Getting Better: Ten More Points of Light

• “Safe” Funds

• New Product from SAB

• SAB on Stage

• A New Mindset

Dear Investor: We’re pleased to inform you that your March returns are 8.0%. You’ll notice a slight decrease from last month’s returns. These reflect our continued conservative approach, as well as an increase in our loan loss reserves. Although the monthly returns are lower, our average returns are down only 0.1% over last month. Our performance statistics can be seen at our website. We’re again including comparative graphs of our performance vs a selection of other indices. This month, for comparative purposes only, CD Rates (3-month term/$25,000). Note that SAF I returns are not insured by the FDIC:

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Most lenders want long-term relationships with their customers.

Not David Gruebele.

“I don’t want to keep them,” says the co-founder of Second Angel Bancorp, a Fair Oaks company that makes “bridge” loans to firms that can’t get bank financing.

The goal: Help established companies “graduate upstream” to conventional – and cheaper – bank financing.

“My job satisfaction is seeing the borrower move to the bank down the street,” says Gruebele, who founded his company with partner Richard Zahm in 2002.

Read Complete Article HERE

www.secondangel.net

A. Resume

Before diving into the heart of what is wrong, why its wrong, and what is needed to fix it, I must speak on my qualifications… My name is Christopher Jared Warren, and in 2001 I was hired as a 19 year old to become a sales Account Executive for ACC Capital Holdings subsidiary, the now infamous “Ameriquest Mortgage Company”. Over the next three years of employment, I became the shining star of portfolio retention”, a predatory division that would specialize in refinancing home owners who JUST got loans from Ameriquest in the last 24 months. I was the number one producer in the region over 60% of the time I was there, the company sent me to management training in Orange CA twice, trips to the Super bowl twice, Hawaii and Las Vegas based on my large production statistics and
paychecks. Most moths I would individually sell more then $5,000,000 in volume and bring in over $30,000 in net income……typically more then 15 loans with more then 3 points and all rates higher than 7.00% – much higher then industry standard at the time and not to mention not bad for a 19-22 year old kid with no degree. As a19 then 20 year old boy, my managers and handlers taught me the ins and outs of mortgage fraud, drugs, sex, and money, money, and more money.

My friend and manager handed out crystal methamphetamine to loan officers in a bid to keep them up and at work longer hours. At any given moment inside the restrooms – cocaine and meth was being snorted by my estimates more than a third of the staff, and more than half the staff manipulating documents to get loans to fund and more then 75% just completely made false statements on 1003s regarding stated income etc to get loans funded. A typical welcome aboard gift was a pair of scissors, tape, and white out, three things a loan officer or financial professional should never need.. Of course no where in training OR in management training did this 20 year old ever learn that false statements on a 1003 were a federal offense. Overall in the two and half years I was at Ameriquest I funded over $90,000,000 in mortgages, of which more then $75,000,000 contained some sorts of material frauds undetected by management and funders.

However, near the end of my employment there, I had hacked the computer systems run by EMPOWER for Ameriquest and was clearing my own funding conditions with no documentation, literally waiving file conditions as if I were an underwriter. The day I left I left with the entire customer database. I had made over $700,000 I was 22 had beat their system, had gotten paid and ripped off one of the largest private companies in the worlds entire customer database.

So what to do with 680,000 Ameriquest customer private information? Well………..start a mortgage company and offer better rates and lower fees then AMC. So at the ripe old age of 22, I founded a mortgage brokerage/bank – WTL FINANCIAL INC., at 22, a fraudster trained by the best corporate environment for fraud, I built a company modeled after the movie boiler room and got WTL licensed in OR CA, MN, CT, RI, FL as a mortgage banking company. From 2004 until its grand 2007 collapse, WTL killed it. As a 22, 23, and 24 year old with no credentials I made over $2.25m all of which was spent on 24 cars(at 26 the number is only 31 total), 5 houses, drugs, 1 engagement and split, 1 300 person wedding, 2 kids. Our company boasted region-best 30,000 square feet, 120 employees, and handling a monthly gross revenue over $5m. Fraud was rampant. We found investors that were not re-pulling credit reports, so we would change a 500 fico to a 700 fico, a person in foreclosure and make It look like they were never late, fake w2s, pay stubs, bank statements, verification of deposits, none of which was being re-verified. These investors, who were securitizing these assets as AAA rated were not even verifying anything in the files? I am sure that their investors were assured everything from correspondents was being audited. Every time a lender caught a file we would “fire” the employee produce termination paperwork to the investor, and re-hire the employee under a different alias. Over the course of the 3 years, over $810,000,000 in mortgage backed securities originated from my companies.

That’s a 24 year old selling a billion dollars in bad mbs securities which by 2008 were in default with out doubt. With the collapse of sub prime giant New Century, came our defeat, as we were too big and too stiff to be agile enough to change. So then in 2007 I diversified. I knew everything at the age of 25 about mortgage banking, origination, funding, reselling securities, underwriting. It was time to learn new things: money laundering, escrow company management, real estate, flipping, lease-backs, joint ventures, llc unit capital offerings. I found my place to learn AFG HOLDINGS COMPANY, the parent company of LOOMIS WEALTH SOLUTIONS, AFP of California LLC., AFG Technologies, and Nationwide Lending Corp(their mortgage banking division). I started as the general manager for the mortgage company, turning it around in 90 days. When I showed up they hadn’t funded a loan in 66 days, they had no warehouse line and no investors. Within 90 days NLG was funding again, with a warehouse line, investors like Indymac, Lehman Brothers, and CITI Mortgage Corp. The trick to this company was simple: AFG would partner with developers and buy real estate at 50 cents on the dollar, then sell it to his “financial consulting” members for 80 cents on the dollar, wed appraise the properties at 100 cents on the dollar artificially inflate the purchase prices so the loans were at 80 AFG would credit back the down and the closing costs. AFG would net 25 points per closing and promise the buyers they would oer the mortgage payment, property management and even buy them free life insurance policy if they bought enough houses. This is what you call a classic panzi scheme because it requires exponential growth to continue. Words I never knew or understood prior to my experience there. Even in that volatile and crunching down market, fraud was still easy to execute. Another $44m funded while I managed the firm, until I got kicked out for starting my own title and escrow company. The complete operation was highly illegal and a form of a panzi scheme. Still, I had no problems or resistance in getting close to fifty million in mortgages purchased and closed. Loomis Wealth and AFG Holdings ended up getting indicted by the Department of Justice after extensive investigation by the FBI and the IRS. There is currently an investigation into my role with this firm and likely I myself will be indicted.

Built a fraudster by my trainers in corporate America. Mastered the fraud. Trained others in the fraud. Paid by the fraud. Mastered mortgage banking, escrow, real estate. Every scam possible: fraud for profit, fraud to fund loans for the under-qualified, fraud of evasion of taxes, reverse flipping, flipping, false liens, software manipulation. And it utterly disgusts me. Looking back at the life I have led, I beg a higher power for forgiveness. For mercy. For I got caught up, my first corporate experience taught me fraud mixed with drugs and money. The very top ranks of the corporate ladders knew what was going on. “When a pool of loans gets audited they will audit less then 10% of that bulk pool, and if they find a loan with misreps we simply replace it with a loan from another pool and put the bad loan back in to another pool and hope it wont get audited ”2002 Vice President of Collateral – Ameriquest Mortgage in Orange, CA. But its always the small guy, the kid, the kid off the street with no college degree no ethics training no nothing they teach how to do their dirt, like a gang recruiting a minor who will only go to juvy. I was only rewarded for my actions. Trips, over 16 trophies from AMC alone, prizes and huge paychecks. I am disgusted. This is the reason American Mortgage Backed Securities and ABS pools are being hammered and default rates are at heir highest level. And what has been bred is a new generation of younger fraudsters that are young, technology adapt, and much quick and innovative then their two generation older counter-part regulators and regulation authors. And it is around that final point that is the center for this memo on mortgage fraud its consequences and final solution: the disparity between the talent of the regulators and the fraudsters. The age plays into it. The ambition and drive plays into it. The technology plays into it. But still, if you could only put the correct people at the top of regulation, writing the reg manuals and enforcing them to 100% on pre-purchasing of assets by the government, you could literally cut mortgage fraud down so massively that you could see a return to below traditionally acceptable foreclosure rates, somewhere in the 1.5 – 2.5% range vs the typically accepted range of 3-5% and the current level of 13.9% and in California, FL, NV over 21%. That’s right, eliminate mortgage fraud. Completely. Forever. And if it doesn’t happen, this economic downturn which was entirely started by mortgage fraud(well get into that in a minute) will continue to plague us and housing will not get a solid footing in housing again because currently I would speculate that over 40% of mortgage securitizations today in Q1 2009 have some form of misrepresentation on them, whether detected or undetected. If you fix MBS and ABS securities, you will re-ignite performance and foreign and domestic investors will believe again in a broken system, putting back much needed cash into the system to increase liquidity, balance sheet, and the overall economic production of the nation.

I helped ruin this nations economy. Almost a billion dollars of toxic assets came from me making others above me rich beyond my imagination. They asked for more and more, knowingly, and I gave it to them. Now I intend to fix it and help the best I can by sharing what I have learned and know. I am the best at what I was taught and then re-created again and again and mastered myself. I am the best man for shutting it down. Completely and forever.

2. The Heart of The Problem

The credit crisis. The recession. The total fall out of investors foreign and domestic fleeing from once-loved American ABS and MBS securities. The fall out of the this has spread to a lack of liquidity from home owners to corporations, affecting everything from gas to employment figures, to the auto industry. The current state of the financial markets as of Q1 09 entirely has its roots in the mortgage and real estate collapse which in turn crippled and effectively killed the credit markets. When the problems first started arising in 2006, economic experts predicted that the problem was only a “sub prime” and “alt a” problem that would stay confined to the companies like Long Beach Mortgage, Ameriquest, New Century, ABC Mortgage, Indymac, those companies that insured, purchased, and securitized loans with horrible underwriting guidelines. The problem was this: it wasn’t just these independent or subsidiary companies at all. Deutche Bank, Merryl Lynch, Citi Group, all were purchasing insanely high volumes of funded loans with horrible underwriting guidelines that would have made an underwriter from the 70s or 80s complete scream at the top of his lungs in concern. But its not just the underwriting guidelines that caused this, because that is already fixed by Q1 09. In today’s current climate, underwriting guidelines are where they should be. Full documentation on income, lower levels of debt allowed vs your income, and more needed for down payments or more equity to be approved for a refinance. All this being done, still does not come close to fixing the problem. Now, more then ever, in this market, as an industry insider I see more fraud happening now then in 2005. More fraud. Bigger fraud. Bigger profits. More defaults and foreclosure. So the underwriting is fixed but the industry still cannot improve the performance of their mortgage backed securities. The problem is mortgage fraud has morphed, and will never ever bee a stagnate thing. The regulators, managers, qc department employees, guideline writers, and board members of mortgage lending institutions and banks are all, when averaged, over the age of forty seven. The average mortgage fraudster is in mid twenties to early thirties. Most fraudsters are complete idiots, as they are just the typical criminal, that have found a different arena to smash around in. They are the easy ones to find: first payment defaults, obvious white out on documents, 1003s that don’t match Super pages or cant pass a Veri-tax.com Mortgage Fraud Report. The current system is good at catching these gentlemen and ladies. The problem is the 5% of fraudsters out there there are extremely intelligent, agile, and constantly innovating techniques to beat every effort of the anti-fraud forces in the banking industry. Age plays into this, because the youth is innovative and aggressive, and as we age and approach AARP land, we become less nimble in our mind, closed to new ideas. I actually had an FBI agent ask me “how in this market with all the changes is it even still possible to get cash back on a purchase”. Any FBI agent who has to ask that question, shouldn’t be involved in a mortgage fraud investigation, period. This example brings us the second problem, and that’s the individuals fighting fraud are doing it completely backwards and with the wrong skill-sets. Mortgage fraud can be, should be, and is desperately needed to be fought from the front, aggressively stopping mortgage fraud before the funding date by a special division, a nationwide division, that is focused on mortgage data, title and records, and streaming information from investors, funders, and originators. Mortgage fraud currently is regulated by prosecution. This is unacceptable.

Lastly there is way too much duplication in our current system of collateralized lending and mortgage securitization. This leads to poor performance, fragmented information sharing if any at all, and low securities performance. The fact is simple that with the nationalization of Freddie and Fannie that is four government-owned agencies that are purchasing and/or insuring over 96.5% of the mortgage fundings on residences in America. That is so beyond against the constitution, but mandatory in todays market. We must realize that subsidy is the savior from depression, which can easily be accepted once studied. But if the government if this country is going to be this big of a player on the nations biggest natural resource: American land and lending on that land, then it absolutely and unequivocally cannot run it like it runs most of its bureaucracy’s: inefficiently. It has to be streamlined. It has to be non-duplicated in roles and responsibilities. It has to have its own internal mechanisms of regulations and controls and checks and balances. Why are there THREE institutions that do the EXACT same thing for the federal government and the three boards and senior managements of those firms take out over $200m a year in compensation when the companies are losing money? Why is the performance of the securities suffer so much? Because they aren’t doing it right and haven’t been. The answer is simple: the mortgage industry fell behind the technology industry department, and never caught up, and it has cost them and now the entire country greatly, in the trillions of dollars. The philosophy is wrong: instead of regulation by prosecution it should be regulation to prevent fraudulent fundings. This has to change first and foremost. When your at war, and trust me, this is a financial war with huge consequences(fraud losses topping over ¾ of a trillion dollars in 2008), you don’t wait for the opposing enemy to bomb, then invade your home towns and then after they have burned your bridges and farms and houses drop a nuke on your own home town to kill them. That is the equivalent of our current regulation. Let the fraudsters do fraud, they fund a bunch of bad loans, and after the losses have piled high enough then and only then do we go in a tear it all up. You have to catch them upfront. Its possible. The current staffing, regulators, and investors simply are too under-qualified, under-trained, and not coordinated with each other enough to make it happen. Their solution is fancy computer modular software that gives you “mortgage fraud scores” or “avm modules” to “reconcile discrepancies”. Its all bullshit, I have beaten those computer models time and time again and other fraudsters know how to as well and you will continue to see the same results if the same regulators, regulation writers, and enforces stay in place that exist today. The analysis is wrong: many times FBI agents who just got transferred from narcotic divisions or international assignments are put on mortgage fraud with absolutely no background. It has taken me ten years of learning to get to where I am and I would consider myself an extremely capable and fast learner far above average and anyone with less then five experience has no right leading or working a mortgage fraud case. Mortgage fraud cases MUST be worked by industry insiders. And while there must be oversight and traditional law enforcement structure and attorneys at the top and managing it, those insiders must be younger or show extreme signs of quick learning ability and/or demonstrate knowledge of today’s advanced fraud techniques. Its a very basic principle that each generation that comes up through the professional world takes the work from the previous generation and makes strides to improve the efficiencies, technologies, and methods of the generation before them. The industry must self regulate with law enforcement assistance with the help of the generation and industry insiders. Meaning if a majority of the fraud is being committed by 20-30 year olds inside the industry utilizing highly technological techniques why do you have 40-60 year olds who don’t understand the technology who got transferred to this type of work from interstate commerce, traditional banking, narcotics,etc? You wouldn’t and you shouldn’t. As previously stated, traditional law enforcement figures are fine for oversight and management but you must leverage the best from the other side against themselves, increasing efficiency bringing in the newer fresher though processes with a better and more concrete understanding of the business and the fraud. The bigger and more elaborate the fraudster, the better permanent asset that individual could be if flipped into a consultant and/or employee for the federal government, specifically the Department of Justice and the Mortgage Fraud tasks forces. The time is wrong: the FBI and DOJ are prosecuting their regulation. This is incorrect because by being reactive instead of proactive you are allowing massive frauds to occur for billions and billions of dollars in losses and damages further pushing MBS and ABS ratings into the dump, and eroding investor confidence in the securities. You regulate by doing just that, regulating. Increase efficiencies and processes, require more burden of proof prior to loan funding and resale on capital markets. Operate under the assumption that every mortgage application is being processed by a fraudulent borrower, loan officer, processor, or underwriter. Assume that the computer technology being used by investors and mortgage banking institutions are inadequate and are already being beaten by fraudsters, because they are. Assume nothing works and that no matter what the “representations and warrants” are of a warehouse lender, the correspondent lender, or the Freddie Mac or Fannie Mae seller, that is not good enough and there is truly no amount of net worth or security can cover a 50% default or fraud rating. Change the philosophy change the analysis, change the team and/or add a lot of new team mates, and change the timing of regulation.

C. Executing Change and Expected Results, A Return to Stability in Securities

Just on the platform that our new commander in chief used, the time for change is now. You can restore confidence in MBS and ABS, and REITS, and American investing by eliminating fraud. Today the guidelines have been fixed, but the fraud hasn’t, and it has worsened. As more and more loan officers go broke and more and more real estate professionals go broke they are turning to fraud to fund deals and raise money. Eliminate fraud and you lower delinquencies, get rid of foreclosures restore confidence in securities, restore confidence and the credit markets are restored, and with credit markets restored the rest of the economy will utilize much needed facilities and regain a solid footing once again. Literally you can fix the majority of the problems by regulation and eliminating fraud. Streamlining effeciencies must be the first step by merging the four government agencies into two(Freddie, Fannie, Ginnie, and HUD) into two (HUD and Freddie) and have Freddie absorb FNMA and Ginnie Mae. Immediately cutting overhead and costs by over 60% and reducing the staffing and overhead costs, hence increasing profitability for the government to help offset costs of future defaults of all the mortgages booked prior the execution of a business plan modeled after this memo.

Next step is to increase the information sharing by all agencies and utilize a platform as an information verification center. MERS is a perfect government-sponsored entity is the perfect entity for this. It is already used as an anti-fraud and mortgage transferree platform by all four government investment houses, all major mortgage funding sources, and a majority of correspondent lenders. Expand its access to include title searching capabilities, access to all IRS documentation, and access to FDIC depository records and SEC holding records to verification of assets independent from the origination processes. Use this verification platform to build the security, as opposed to utilizing documentation provided by borrower and/or originator. While this will be the most expensive and very costly endeavour, it pales in comparison to the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on curing and/or selling toxic assets insured by the tax payers at a loss. Even at a cost of $1b the return on investment will be over 1000%. Then infuse talent to any and all federal mortgage fraud investigations currently in process, and mandate co-operation by all lenders and investment companies for the new blood to have access to files prior to funding and pipeline reviews – truly regulating pipelines and helping find criminals prior to funding. Have all Suspicious Activity Reports filed in regards to mortgage activity immediately diverted to the new task forces force teams. Just as any part of the FBI you bring in talent on every level, low level, mid level, and management. Not to replace but to act in concert, provide guidance and speciality information to assist with the cases, and identify and prevent mortgage fraud in action before fundings occur, bringing regulation to pro-active instead of re-active. Following this steps increases efficiency, saves billions of dollars, gets the right people in the right place, utilizes the talent of the people that actually know what to look for, and will bring defaults caused by fraud down to acceptable levels: 0-1%. At a maximum. This is what is wrong and how to fix it. I am the man for the job, Chris Warren, have the management experience, the banking experience, and could assist in the oversight of the most major transformation of mortgage regulation without changing one guideline and still completely eliminate mortgage fraud and restore confidence in the American dream and the securities that very dream provides for investors. The performance of the securities improves, the funds will come back, the government can re-sell off positions in Freddie Mac, or keep possession and return to massive profitability which could act as a huge profit center to help pay for many needed budget and defecit shortfalls and provides answers for the overall performance of the national budget and economy.

Christopher Jared Warren