Larry Tolchinsky | March 6, 2012
Here in Florida, we have a snowball that just keeps rolling along, getting bigger and bigger: the national spotlight is finally noticing a big problem that Florida real estate attorneys representing Florida home owners in things like foreclosure defense and short sale counseling have known for a long time: it’s not just bad real estate [...]
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Larry Tolchinsky | February 28, 2012
The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), the federal agency that regulates the housing market in this country, is going to begin selling homes that have been foreclosed upon by Fannie Mae to vetted investors in certain parts of the country now, as part of its test run – or pilot phase – of the new [...]
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Tags: Broward Real Estate, Florida Homestead, Florida Real Estate, Florida Real Estate Foreclosures, Foreclosure defense attorney, Foreclosure Help, Mortgage foreclosure, Property foreclosure, Wrongful Foreclosure
Larry Tolchinsky | February 21, 2012
Across Florida, and particularly in South Florida, condominiums and homeowners’ associations are having to deal with problems that arise when a condo owner defaults on his or her condo mortgage. One of those problems is the growing amount of unpaid assessments and fees on that defaulted condo. Enter the Florida Legislature with proposed legislation, HB [...]
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Larry Tolchinsky | February 16, 2012
More on the big news this week on Florida foreclosures. After all, there are many things to consider as a Florida homeowner or Florida mortgage holder with this new Attorneys General – Bank Foreclosure Settlement. Here are just a few of them. First things first, it may be putting the horse before the cart for [...]
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Larry Tolchinsky | February 14, 2012
The joint task force investigating foreclosure fraud by banks and mortgage servicers in this country, which brought together the top attorneys for each state in the country, i.e., their Attorneys General, has made a settlement deal according to a news release by the AGs. From their joint task force’s web site: After many months of [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Tags: Deficiency Judgments, Florida Real Estate Foreclosures, Foreclosure defense attorney, Loan Modification, Short Sale Counseling, Short Sales, strategic default, Underwater Mortgage
Larry Tolchinsky | January 17, 2012
The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) implemented the federal Servicing Alignment Initiative last year and, in 2012, this new federal incentive plan should boost the number of short sales here in Florida, which is great news for home owners wanting to avoid a foreclosure. What is the Servicing Alignment Initiative? The Servicing Alignment Initiative is [...]
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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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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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