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Potential Mortgage Fraud

May 7th, 2012 · No Comments · Foreclosure, loan modification, News, Short Sales, Uncategorized

Tweet Posted by Robert Trigaux | tampabay.com   “Wake up and good morning. Florida and Tampa Bay are hardly strangers to mortgage fraud. But the latest federal report on mortgage fraud suggests Hillsborough County leads the way nationwide in potential mortgage fraud, a disturbing No. 1 status given the hype and promise from mortgage fraud “task forces” [...]

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Bank reports point to a healing housing market

April 17th, 2012 · No Comments · Commercial Loans, Foreclosure, News, Real Estate Law, Uncategorized

Tweet By The Associated Press   “Earnings reports from two major banks Friday painted a picture of a healing housing market, with more Americans taking out mortgages, paying them on time and taking advantage of low interest rates to refinance. At JPMorgan Chase, the biggest bank in the United States, income from new home loans set [...]

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Why BofA’s latest plan is drawing little protest

March 30th, 2012 · No Comments · Foreclosure, Litigation, loan modification, News, Real Estate Law, Short Sales, Uncategorized

Tweet By Eve Tahmincioglu | msnbc.com   “Doesn’t it feel like Bank of America has finally broken us? Plagued with lawsuits and settlements; uproars over fee hikes; and a recent scathing article in Rolling Stone calling it “moronic and corrupt,” you would think the nation’s biggest bank would be put under asynchrotron, the world’s biggest microscope, by [...]

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A Winding Path To Foreclosure: Graph

March 26th, 2012 · No Comments · Commercial Loans, Foreclosure, Litigation, loan modification, News, Real Estate Law, Short Sales, Uncategorized

Tweet   Where it began: 1999… Click here:  A Winding Path To Foreclosure: Graph

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Recovery? Trying to draw meaning from the chaos of new housing news in Florida

March 12th, 2012 · No Comments · Foreclosure, loan modification, News, Real Estate Law, Short Sales, Uncategorized

Tweet By: Robert Trigaux, Business Columnist | Tampa Bay Times “Wake up and good morning. So is the Tampa Bay and Florida housing market at a bottom and really ready to start improving? The crystal ball remains murky but there’s no lack of housing activity on both sides of the equation to ponder. For openers: *  Homebuilder Newland Communities [...]

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Billboard House Advertises a Way Out of the Housing Crisis

February 24th, 2012 · No Comments · Foreclosure, News, Real Estate Law, Uncategorized

Tweet By Kent Zelas |    “Scott Hostetler didn’t bother to tell his family that he’d applied online to have their house in Buena Park, Calif., turned into an advertising billboard for the price of their monthly mortgage payment. He figured that it was like taking a chance on the lottery — and who ever expects [...]

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The U.S. foreclosure crisis, Beverly Hills-style

February 21st, 2012 · No Comments · Foreclosure, News, Real Estate Law

Tweet   “The careworn house not far from Santa Monica Boulevard resembles millions of other homes that have been foreclosed on since the calamitous U.S. housing crash four years ago. Garbage spews from trash bags behind the property. A smashed television leans against broken furniture. A filthy toy dog lies on its side, an ear [...]

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So far, only 60 take up Bank of America on short sale incentive

January 31st, 2012 · No Comments · Commercial Loans, Foreclosure, Litigation, loan modification, News, Real Estate Law, Short Sales, Uncategorized

Tweet By Mark Puente, Times Staff Writer   “Only 60 Floridians have received cash from a Bank of America program that pays up to $20,000 to homeowners who sell distressed properties in a short sale. The lender still expects thousands more in the Sunshine State to collect the money before the pilot program ends in August. [...]

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Old mortgages rise from the dead, haunt homeowners

January 29th, 2012 · No Comments · Foreclosure, News, Real Estate Law, Uncategorized

Tweet By Michelle Conlin   “In July 2009, Roy and Sheila Bowers refinanced the mortgage on their suburban ranch home in Topeka, Kansas. The couple wanted to take advantage of the low interest rates that were all the rage at the time. Roy, a truck driver, and Sheila, a former hotel housekeeping supervisor, knew their new [...]

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Is Now The Best Time To Refinance?

October 24th, 2011 · No Comments · Commercial Loans, loan modification, News, Real Estate Law, Uncategorized

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