Larry Tolchinsky | May 15, 2012
Where will all the strings of Foreclosure Fraud end? Who knows, because more and more issues just keep popping up from the huge mortgage fraud mess in Florida and across the country. The latest? Forced-placed insurance, also known as Lender-placed insurance, and the sneaky burdens it’s creating for American families and Florida home owners. What [...]
Larry Tolchinsky | May 3, 2012
Last Friday, the State of Florida powers-that-be announced that they were revamping the Hardest Hit Fund for Florida residents, making eligibility requirements easier to meet for lots of Floridians. Which is good news if you are past due on your mortgage payments, right? What’s the Florida Hardest Hit Fund? Go here for our earlier post [...]
Larry Tolchinsky | March 8, 2012
It’s very stressful to be a Florida home owner dealing with an underwater mortgage or defaulting on a home loan. Your credit rating is getting zapped, there are all the collection practices by the mortgage lender to juggle, and then there’s the legal process itself – strategizing with your lawyer on your home and mortgage [...]
Larry Tolchinsky | February 23, 2012
This week, the proposed Florida Fair Foreclosure Act got one step closer to becoming law when the Florida State Senate Judiciary Committee okayed the foreclosure bill. In the near future, the Florida Legislature should be voting on this proposal and you can track the progress of this bill (SB 1890) online here. This is a [...]
Larry Tolchinsky | February 7, 2012
It’s sad but true that all too often home owners already facing the stress and difficulties of becoming delinquent in their mortgage payments and facing the consequences of that delinquency – losing their home, their credit rating, dealing with bill collection efforts, etc. – then fall prey to the additional stress of being the victims [...]
Larry Tolchinsky | February 2, 2012
In Florida, countless home owners are facing the lose of their home to foreclosure because they can’t continue to make their mortgage payments due to lost jobs, medical expenses, and other life events. Other home owners have mortgages that are much, much larger than the fair market value of their homes and they are wondering [...]
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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