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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Larry Tolchinsky | July 19, 2011
Robo-signing, where official legal documents are fraudulently created and then filed by banks and their attorneys when they are attempting to foreclose on homes in Florida and elsewhere, has been one of the major reasons for the national Foreclosure Fraud crisis. Mortgage lenders have gone out of business because of these antics; lender lawyers like [...]
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Larry Tolchinsky | June 16, 2011
In the pleadings filed in the lawsuit filed by the FDIC against Jacksonville’s Lender Processing Services, it has become part of the public record that 89 different Florida appraisers are listed by name as being involved in this lawsuit, and out of those 89 appraisers, 35 have been in disciplinary actions before the Florida Real [...]
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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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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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Larry | October 28, 2010
A subject that is a recent area of inquiry from my clients is Wage Garnishment. Wage Garnishment, as I explained in previous posts, is the lenders ability to deduct money directly from your salary if they obtain a deficiency judgment against you. Typically, a garnishment becomes part of the payroll process, meaning the creditor deducts [...]
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Larry | October 15, 2010
If you read this blog regularly, you know that I represent a variety of people in South Florida who are facing foreclosure proceedings on their homes. Please be sure to read this if you’ve already lost your home, because you may be entitled to receive compensation if your home was wrongfully taken away based on [...]
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Larry | October 2, 2010
fraud on the Court allowing the time to bring a lawsuit to set aside the foreclosure action to be extended beyond the date the property was sold at auction- Homeowners may be able to claim the banks have converted their homes and/or other legal theories allowing the homeowner to receive compensation
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Larry | October 1, 2010
Those homeowners who have already lost their home to foreclosure may be entitled to compensation from the bank because the banks may have fraudulently obtained ownership by having filed affidavits in support of their foreclosure proceedings that contained information that was not verified
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Larry | April 30, 2010
An article in today’s Sarasota Herald Tribune discusses how the Florida Attorney General’s office is investigating whether Florida Default Law Group in Tampa, one of the largest Florida foreclosure firms, is using fake or misleading documents in their foreclosure cases. This claim is something that foreclosure defense attorneys have been complaining about for a while [...]
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