Larry Tolchinsky | February 24, 2011
Deficiency judgments are sometimes sought in lawsuits brought by banks when a home goes through a foreclosure sale and afterwards there is still an amount left owing on the mortgage note. Being left with money still owed to the financial institution after already losing one’s home in a foreclosure is a true nightmare for many [...]
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Tags: Deficiency Judgments, Florida Real Estate, Florida Real Estate Foreclosures, Foreclosure defense attorney, Foreclosure Help, House foreclosure, Mortgage foreclosure, Property foreclosure, strategic default
Larry Tolchinsky | February 22, 2011
This morning, attorneys are arguing before a Florida appeals court about who gets access to client files kept in attorneys’ offices – arguments that arise out of the huge foreclosure fraud mess that Floridians face. It’s a showdown occurring over in West Palm Beach at the Fourth District Court of Appeals, where a three judge panel made [...]
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Tags: Florida Law, Florida Real Estate Foreclosures, Foreclosure Fraud, Fraudulent Law Firms, Property foreclosure
Larry Tolchinsky | February 17, 2011
Florida Circuit Court Judge Maxine Cohen Lando is joining with members of the judiciary across the country (especially Massachusetts) in coming down hard and decisively in cases involving fraudulent documentation in foreclosure proceedings. In fact, Miami-Dade Judge Lando has garnered national spotlight this week, as she held Marc Ben-Ezra, the head of the well-known, Hollywood, [...]
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Larry Tolchinsky | February 15, 2011
Citigroup has begun negotiating financial settlements of wrongful foreclosure claims; in fact, Citigroup has been quietly doing this for several months now. In its analysis of reporting published by Bloomberg last week, Propublica points out that Citigroup has been forking up the money to cover the homeowner’s legal expenses along with agreeing to a lower [...]
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Larry Tolchinsky | February 10, 2011
Loan modifications – revamping mortgage loans to avoid the homeowner losing the property to foreclosure – were a great idea when the real estate crisis hit a couple of years back. It’s not really debatable at this point that loan modifications are not working. As ProPublica reporters Paul Kiel and Olga Pierce point out in last [...]
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Larry Tolchinsky | February 8, 2011
What’s a wrongful foreclosure and are you the victim of one? Not easy questions to answer. 1. Florida Lawyers are having to enhance their knowledge of Florida foreclosure law. Ethics code requires Florida lawyers to report any suspicious or wrongful foreclosure activity. As reported in the Miami Herald last week, Florida attorneys are being required to [...]
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Tags: Broward Real Estate, Florida Condo Law, Florida Homestead, Florida Law, Florida Real Estate Foreclosures, Foreclosure Help, Mortgage foreclosure
Larry Tolchinsky | February 4, 2011
The Florida Supreme Court has been asked by the Fourth District Court of Appeal to review its opinion and give its own determination on what’s the right thing to do in the case of Roman Pino’s foreclosure of his home in Greenacres. Seems that the appellate court took the unusual step to send the matter directly to the [...]
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Larry Tolchinsky | February 2, 2011
HAFA stands for a federal government program named “the Home Affordable Foreclosure Alternatives Program” which was created to compliment another government program, the “Making Home Affordable Program.” Both are under the supervision of the U.S. Treasury Department as part of the TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program). HAFA steps in to help homeowners who: 1. do [...]
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Tags: Deficiency Judgments, Florida Homestead, Florida Real Estate, Florida Real Estate Foreclosures, Foreclosure Help, House foreclosure, Mortgage foreclosure, Property foreclosure, Short Sales
