by Larry Tolchinsky | Florida Foreclosures, Florida Law, Florida Real Estate, Force Placed Insurance, Foreclosure Fraud, Foreclosure Rescue, Home Loan Fraud, Loan Modification, Real Estate, Wrongful Foreclosure
For those fighting to keep their homes in Florida and elsewhere, every penny counts in the monthly budget. It’s hard to write that monthly mortgage check, especially where it is a payment being made on an underwater mortgage. Homeowners already on this... by Larry Tolchinsky | Florida Foreclosures, Foreclosure Fraud, Foreclosure Rescue, Home Loan Fraud, Wrongful Foreclosure
Investigative reporting by ProPublica recently revealed that lots of state governments involved in the big Mortgage Foreclosure Fraud settlement between the Big Banks and the State Attorneys General have taken big chunks of the settlement monies for use in things... by Larry Tolchinsky | Deficiency Judgments, Florida Foreclosures, Florida Homestead, Florida Real Estate, Foreclosure Fraud, Foreclosure Rescue, Real Estate, Short Sales, Underwater Mortgage
Today, Zillow.com released its research study on the United States’ housing market, “Zillow Negative Equity Report,” and it’s not good news for anyone. From the Zillow experts, in the first three months of 2012: 31.4 percent of U.S. homeowners... by Larry Tolchinsky | Community Associations, Florida Condominium Law, Florida Law
In Florida, condominiums are very, very popular. Accordingly, the Florida Legislature has passed lots of laws to govern how shared properties like condominium projects (including time shares) are to be managed and how those managers of the shared spaces and condo... by Larry Tolchinsky | Florida Foreclosures, Florida Real Estate, Foreclosure Rescue, Loan Modification, Short Sales
There’s a lot of news coverage this week about the announcement by Bank of America that it is introducing a new short sale program to help Florida homeowners in trouble with their mortgages. Across the country and in Florida, Bank of America itself (BofA) is...