Larry Tolchinsky | January 31, 2012
A nice article appeared in Reuters this week entitled, “What Happens When You Walk Away From Your Home?” that includes a brief discussion of things we post about here regularly: underwater mortgages in Florida and elsewhere and the various issues that go into deciding whether or not to stop making mortgage payments on a home [...]
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Tags: Collection Practices, Debt Collection, Deficiency Judgments, FDCPA, Foreclosure defense attorney, strategic default, Underwater Mortgage
Larry Tolchinsky | January 26, 2012
As discussed in our earlier post, a major tax break will end on December 31, 2012, that helps Florida home owners facing foreclosures, negotiating loan modifications, or working on a short sale of their home. For several years, a federal law has exempted the amount that isn’t covered by the foreclosure or short sale or [...]
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Tags: Deficiency Judgments, Florida Law, Foreclosure Settlement, Loan Modification, Short Sale Counseling, Short Sales, Underwater Mortgage
Larry Tolchinsky | January 24, 2012
Florida home owners concerned about foreclosure and pondering a short sale should get busy and get that short sale process started. Why? There is a countdown to the expiration date of a federal law that will impact them badly if they wait until after the end of 2012 to close on that short sale of [...]
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Tags: Condominium Lawyer, Deficiency Judgments, Florida Law, Florida Real Estate, Foreclosure Help, Short Sale Counseling, Short Sales
Larry Tolchinsky | January 19, 2012
Sometimes, the easiest way to understand something is to consider one example. In the case of appraisal error, a recent news story about a phony and fraudulent New York home appraisal really helps to make things clear. In many instances, appraisals are bad because of fraud – and because of negligence. Great Example of Appraisal [...]
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Tags: Appraisal Fraud, Appraisal Negligence, Appraiser Fraud, Short Sales
Larry Tolchinsky | January 17, 2012
The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) implemented the federal Servicing Alignment Initiative last year and, in 2012, this new federal incentive plan should boost the number of short sales here in Florida, which is great news for home owners wanting to avoid a foreclosure. What is the Servicing Alignment Initiative? The Servicing Alignment Initiative is [...]
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Tags: Broward Real Estate, Florida Law, Florida Real Estate, Florida Real Estate Foreclosures, House foreclosure, Loan Modification, Short Sale Counseling, Short Sales, Underwater Mortgage
Larry Tolchinsky | January 12, 2012
In Florida, short sales are growing in popularity now that lenders realize the expense and difficulty of dealing with a foreclosed home, and because so many other homes are at risk for foreclosure their is a likelihood that the inventory will continue to grow. Also, banks rather have a home sold by short sale than [...]
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Tags: Short Sale Counseling, Short Sales, Underwater Mortgage
Larry Tolchinsky | January 10, 2012
At most real estate closings, there’s lots of paperwork. Page after page of single-spaced language that has to be reviewed, and then affirmed by the signor that they read and understood all that language in all those pages. Which is what Barbara and Rick Borchers did when when they sold their Florida home eight years [...]
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Tags: Bank of America Foreclosures, BofA Foreclosures, Broward Real Estate, Florida Law, Florida Real Estate Foreclosures, Title Insurance
Larry Tolchinsky | January 5, 2012
Last month, we posted about the reality that most folks do not have life plans in place – and this is a bad decision for them and their loved ones. No one wants to think about a health crisis, or death, or being incapacitated for a time, but the truth is that these things happen [...]
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Tags: Broward County Probate, estate planning, Florida Durable Power of Attorney, Florida Probate, Florida Trusts, Florida Will, life planning, South Florida Lawyers
Larry Tolchinsky | January 3, 2012
The former chief economist for the National Association of Realtors (1987-97) and the current chief economist for Florida Realtors | Orlando gave his take this week on the current Florida real estate climate in an article written by Orlando Sentinel staff writer Mary Shanklin. You can read the full article, entitled “Talking With … John [...]
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Tags: Broward Real Estate, Florida Law, Florida Real Estate, Florida Real Estate Foreclosures, Short Sale Counseling, Short Sales
