Larry Tolchinsky | October 27, 2011
Florida has been in tough economic times for a long while now, and lots of Florida homeowners, stressed and frustrated, have chosen to move on — walking away from their homes and their mortgages. This may have seemed like a smart idea at the time, or maybe the only idea at the time, but here’s [...]
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Larry Tolchinsky | October 25, 2011
HARP was revised this week by the federal government in the hopes that up to 1 million Americans with underwater mortgages can get refinancing through a program overseen by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Expanding HARP is a big deal; President Obama held a news conference this week over in Vegas to give the details. [...]
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Larry Tolchinsky | October 20, 2011
A few weeks ago, the Florida Supreme Court ordered a review of its 18-month-old mandatory foreclosure mediation program. (You can read the December 2009 Administrative Order creating the program and the September 26, 2011 Administrative Order reviewing its results online.) The Palm Beach Post is reporting that as soon as tomorrow, the decision will [...]
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Larry Tolchinsky | October 19, 2011
The wait may be over: foreclosure filings in Florida are on the increase, according to two top industry watchers, and this may mean that Florida banks are gearing up to foreclose on lots of home owners who have been setting in their homes for many months, waiting for that foreclosure notice. For a long while, [...]
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Larry Tolchinsky | October 13, 2011
It is true that Florida probate lawyers compete with online will services and companies that publish generic forms for Last Wills and Testaments. Some of those who will be reading this article will respond with a knee-jerk reaction that any warnings from a Florida probate attorney are biased and self-serving. However, that’s not true. The [...]
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Larry Tolchinsky | October 11, 2011
Right now, Florida’s governor (along with Florida bankers) are moving to change Florida’s system of foreclosing – which currently happens when a lawsuit is filed in the local courthouse – to that of “nonjudicial foreclosures” where the banks won’t have the oversight by judges when they foreclose on a Florida home. We’re monitoring this situation, [...]
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Larry Tolchinsky | October 6, 2011
Today, another federal report was released, this time from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency: seems that mortgage delinquencies are rising again. Which means that many people are not making that monthly mortgage payment. As the Wall Street Journal suggests, this number is only going to go up if unemployment rates rise. Florida [...]
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Larry Tolchinsky | October 4, 2011
In an article written by Jessica Silver-Greenberg for the Wall Street Journal and shared at Yahoo! Finance, “”House Is Gone but Debt Lives On,” a big, bright national media spotlight shines on the very issue that has been the subject of many of our posts here: Florida homeowners in trouble with their mortgages oftentimes do [...]
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