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Community association’s eviction legal, court says

May 13th, 2012 · No Comments · Litigation, News, Real Estate Law, Uncategorized

Tweet   By SHANNON BEHNKEN | The Tampa Tribune   “A woman who says her homeowner’s association wrongly took possession of her home lost her first court bid to get it back Wednesday but plans to try again. Joanne McCarn may have expected too much of the hearing, which covered the narrow issue of whether the Bridgewater Community [...]

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New foreclosure wave to hit ‘everyday’ borrowers

May 8th, 2012 · No Comments · Foreclosure, Real Estate Law, Uncategorized

Tweet By Nick Carey     “Half a decade into the deepest U.S. housing crisis since the 1930s, many Americans are hoping the crisis is finally nearing its end. House sales are picking up across most of the country, the plunge in prices is slowing and attempts by lenders to claim back properties from struggling borrowers [...]

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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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Obama’s Mortgage Task Force: Working Hard or Hardly Working?

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

Tweet Column by ADAM LEVIN, Credit.com | “Maybe you’re reading about it less and less. It doesn’t seem to be the lead story on many national news broadcasts anymore. But it’s still there, festering away like an untreated wound. The foreclosure crisis and the morass of other problems surrounding persistently problematic real estate prices, unwise loans made [...]

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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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N.Y. foreclosure lawsuit could slow home seizures

March 31st, 2012 · No Comments · Foreclosure, News, Real Estate Law, Uncategorized

Tweet By John W. Schoen, Senior Producer (msnbc.com)   “Bankers struggling to deal with faulty foreclosure paperwork just got hit with another major headache. New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, recently tapped by President Obama to head a new task force to investigate mortgage fraud, sued three major U.S. banks Friday, accusing them of using [...]

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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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How foreclosures affect buyers and sellers

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

Tweet By Marcie Geffner, bankrate.com   “If anything is certain about the foreclosure crisis, it’s that it isn’t over. That fact has important implications, not only for people losing their homes, but also for those planning to sell or buy a home this year. As of January, about 3 million properties were in foreclosure, headed [...]

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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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Church Foreclosures Hit Record In 2011

March 11th, 2012 · No Comments · Foreclosure, News, Uncategorized

Tweet   “* 2011 a record year for church foreclosures * Churches hit by credit bubble, some devalued. * Churches faulting, struggling with “balloon” payouts * Banks say church foreclosure last resort By Tim Reid LOS ANGELES, March 9 (Reuters) – Banks are foreclosing on America’s churches in record numbers as lenders increasingly lose patience [...]

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