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 | December 29, 2011
The Pew Research Center is one of the country’s most respected research firms, and here at year end, many are listening to what Pew is reporting regarding Americans’ take on the foreclosure crisis and people not paying their mortgages. What has Pew discovered? In answers to a Pew survey, thirty-six percent (36%) of Americans said [...]
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Tags: Bank of America Foreclosures, BofA Foreclosures, Broward Real Estate, Deficiency Judgments, Florida Condominium, Florida Real Estate, Florida Real Estate Foreclosures, Foreclosure Help, Loan Modification, Short Sale Counseling, Short Sales, strategic default, Underwater Mortgage
Larry Tolchinsky | August 11, 2011
In a loan modification, the original note’s terms are revised (monthly payment amount, interest rate, etc.) and the revisions become effective once everyone signs the modification agreement. For a home loan in South Florida, that means the home owners whose names are on the original mortgage and note and a duly authorized representative of the [...]
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Tags: Bank of America Foreclosures, BofA Foreclosures, Florida Law, Florida Real Estate Foreclosures, Foreclosure Lawsuit, House foreclosure, Loan Modification, Mortgage foreclosure, Property foreclosure, Underwater Mortgage, Wrongful Foreclosure
Larry Tolchinsky | July 26, 2011
The issues involving Foreclosure Fraud seem to get bigger and more complex (and more outrageous) by the day. Just last week, for example, the controversy got bigger around the reasons why two former assistant attorneys general for the State of Florida – who were Attorney General Pam Bondi’s top foreclosure fraud investigators – were effectively [...]
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Tags: Bank of America Foreclosures, BofA Foreclosures, Florida Law, Florida Real Estate Foreclosures, Foreclosure defense attorney, foreclosure defenses, Foreclosure Fraud, House foreclosure, Mortgage foreclosure, Property foreclosure, Wrongful Foreclosure
Larry Tolchinsky | July 21, 2011
What the heck is going on with our government leaders? Are they trying to stop Florida homeowners from suing banks and mortgage lenders for foreclosure fraud and other injuries that Florida property owners have experienced due to Foreclosure Fraud (robosigning, etc.)? Yes. It looks like they are trying to do exactly that: block the homeowner [...]
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Larry Tolchinsky | June 23, 2011
Appraisers providing bad appraisals due either to negligence or outright fraud are finally being recognized as one of the major contributors to the huge foreclosure fraud crisis in Florida and the rest of the country. By providing artificially high appraisals, the real estate appraiser played an instrumental role in the Real Estate Bubble that has [...]
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Tags: Appraisal Fraud, Appraisal Negligence, Appraisal Negligency, Appraiser Fraud, Appraiser Negligence, Broward Real Estate, Florida Homestead, Florida Law, Florida Real Estate Foreclosures, Mortgage foreclosure, Property foreclosure, Wrongful Foreclosure
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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Tags: Appraiser Fraud, Deficiency Judgments, Florida Law, Florida Real Estate, Florida Real Estate Foreclosures, Foreclosure defense attorney, Foreclosure Fraud, Foreclosure Help, Wrongful Foreclosure
Larry Tolchinsky | June 9, 2011
Knowing that inflated appraisals is a part of the reason that Florida real estate is in such a huge, horrible mess isn’t news to many who are following events in the local real estate market. However, now it appears that the federal government is taking notice. One example was last month’s filing in a California [...]
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Tags: Appraisal Fraud, Appraisal Negligence, Appraiser Fraud, Fair Market Value, Florida Real Estate, Florida Real Estate Foreclosures, Foreclosure defense attorney, foreclosure defenses, Foreclosure Fraud, Foreclosure Help, Inflated Appraisal, Mortgage foreclosure, Property foreclosure
Larry Tolchinsky | June 2, 2011
One Florida appraiser is already facing fraud charges — and we’re predicting that there are going to be a lot more Florida appraisers in lawsuits and facing criminal charges. This month, licensed appraiser Jay Whitham is being tried on criminal fraud charges based upon the state’s argument that he intentionally prepared a phony and fraudulent [...]
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Tags: Appraisar Fraud, Appraised Value, Appraiser Fraud, Broward Real Estate, Florida Law, Florida Real Estate, Florida Real Estate Foreclosures, Mortgage foreclosure, Property foreclosure, Real Estate Appraiser, Wrongful Foreclosure
