Larry Tolchinsky | September 29, 2011
Changing Florida foreclosure law in a big way is being considered right now, and Florida homeowners need to be aware of this growing movement. If these efforts succeed, then the Florida Legislature will change longstanding Florida law, making it even easier for banks to do the wrong thing – since there won’t be a judge [...]
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Tags: Broward Real Estate, Florida Law, Florida Real Estate Foreclosures, Foreclosure Lawsuit, Foreclosure Settlement, House foreclosure, Mortgage foreclosure, Mortgage Fraud, Property foreclosure, Wrongful Foreclosure
Larry Tolchinsky | September 27, 2011
If you are a homeowner who is worried about the title to the house or condo you’ve bought – or if you are someone who has lost their home in foreclosure, then you may be wondering if the government is doing something that may helpful to you. Sure, there are talks about a big settlement [...]
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Tags: Bank of America Foreclosures, BofA Foreclosures, Florida Real Estate Foreclosures, Foreclosure defense attorney, foreclosure defenses, Foreclosure Fraud, Foreclosure Help, House foreclosure, Mortgage foreclosure, Wrongful Foreclosure
Larry Tolchinsky | September 22, 2011
Underwater mortgages are a serious problem here in South Florida. When home loan balances are higher than the fair market value of the home itself, the homeowner is “upside down” on his or her mortgage. This scenario increases the temptation for the homeowner to walk away, especially when facing higher property taxes and home insurance. [...]
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Tags: Broward Real Estate, Florida Homestead, Florida Real Estate, Florida Real Estate Foreclosures, Foreclosure defense attorney, foreclosure defenses, Foreclosure Help, Foreclosure Settlement, House foreclosure, Loan Modification, Mortgage foreclosure, Property foreclosure, strategic default, Underwater Mortgage
Larry Tolchinsky | September 20, 2011
Everyone in the Miami area knows that the Florida real estate market is in a huge mess. However, some South Floridians may be surprised to learn just how long that real estate crisis may continue into the future. Why? Title to Florida real estate – particularly the real estate that has gone through the foreclosure [...]
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Tags: Bank of America Foreclosures, Florida Law, Florida Real Estate, Foreclosure Help, Foreclosure Lawsuit, Foreclosure Settlement, House foreclosure, Mortgage foreclosure, Property foreclosure, Title Insurance, Wrongful Foreclosure
Larry Tolchinsky | September 15, 2011
Here in South Florida, odds are high that you or your neighbor or your friend have your home mortgage with Bank of America. Why? Bank of America holds not only mortgage notes that Bank of America made with its customers, but also mortgages made awhile back by Countrywide Financial Corporation because Bank of America took [...]
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Larry Tolchinsky | September 13, 2011
The Florida Legislature has been very active this past year in passing all sorts of major changes to existing Florida probate laws. The law makers have been doing this in several areas; however, one area of major change that is going to impact almost every Floridian involves the recent law changes involving wills and inheritance [...]
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Tags: Broward County Probate, Florida Durable Power of Attorney, Florida inheritance, Florida Trusts, Florida Will, probate, surviving spouse, Trusts, Will
Larry Tolchinsky | September 8, 2011
Here, the fifth in a series of posts explaining the hows and whys of ForeclosureGate and the Florida Home Loan Fraud crisis: more and more fraudulent acts are discovered as investigations begin into widespread mortgage fraud. As discussed in Part 4 of this series, the widespread use of the name “Linda Green” in various ForeclosureFraud [...]
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Larry Tolchinsky | September 6, 2011
On September 2, 2011, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) filed a series of lawsuits against seventeen (17) of the biggest lenders in the country (along with some individuals, including top officers in the banks) for allegedly misleading Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac about residential mortgage-backed securities that these banks sold to Fannie Mae and [...]
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Tags: Bank Fraud, Bank of America Foreclosures, Countrywide, Fannie Mae, Federal Housing Finance Agency, FNMA, Foreclosure Fraud, Foreclosure Help, Freddie Mac, GSE, Merrill Lynch, Mortgage foreclosure, Predatory Lending, Wrongful Foreclosure
Larry Tolchinsky | September 1, 2011
Here, the fourth in a series of posts explaining the hows and whys of ForeclosureGate and the Florida Home Loan Fraud crisis: blatant acts of fraud are performed by lenders, lawyers, and others who should know better. As the number of homeowners defaulting on their mortgages continued to rise, a parallel increase in chaos was [...]
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Tags: Florida Law, Florida Real Estate Foreclosures, Foreclosure defense attorney, Foreclosure Fraud, House foreclosure, Mortgage foreclosure, Property foreclosure, Wrongful Foreclosure
