Florida Real Estate Market: Are Florida Home Owners About to See a Better Residential Real Estate Market? Is Now the Time to Buy or Sell? Not Without Legal Advice.

Larry Tolchinsky | April 26, 2012

Florida real estate owners and home owners throughout the Sunshine State are very, very concerned about their real estate values: not only where they have been and where they are now, but where they will be in the future.  Media stories about real estate prices and foreclosure numbers are therefore very important to a lot [...]

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Florida “Wild Deeds” – Just One More Florida Land Title Issue For Quiet Title Actions: What is a “Wild Deed”?

Larry Tolchinsky | April 24, 2012

Last fall, Osceola County Clerk of the Court joined other Florida officials in warning the public at large that con artists were at work in the State of Florida, taking advantage of the Foreclosure Fraud mess by filing “wild deeds” in the real property records. (Check out the Osceola Clerk’s list of wild deed filings [...]

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Florida Quiet Title Actions: 10 Things You Should Know About Quieting Title in the State of Florida

Larry Tolchinsky | March 29, 2012

As the Florida real estate market stumbles along, we are predicting that land title issues are going to be causing more and more problems for Florida home owners, those wanting to sell Florida property, as well as those who want to buy a Florida home, condo, or tract of land.  Why?  The ForeclosureFraud mess has [...]

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Florida Quiet Title Actions and Mortgage Termination Suits: Title Insurance Companies Are Wary in Florida of Issuing Title Policies

Larry Tolchinsky | March 27, 2012

Last week, the Sun Sentinel published an article that pointed out how one title insurance underwriter was advising its members, i.e., Florida title insurances agents, regarding “mortgage terminator” judgments and the problems associated with those lawsuits.  Seems the title insurance agents are being warned against issuing title insurance policies now because of longstanding legal precedent.  [...]

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Florida Real Estate Closings Are Important: Checking Paperwork Details May Have Saved Florida Homeowners From Foreclosure Filing by Bank of America Eight Years Later

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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The Short Sale Transaction in Florida: Things That the Seller (and Buyer) Need to Know Before Closing the Short Sale of a Florida Home – Clouds on Title

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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