Tag Archives: foreclosures

Second wave of foreclosures?

Posted on August 1, 2011 by

While we continue to closely monitor the toll that residential foreclosures are taking on our home values, the long-feared second wave of economic trouble from all those deserted strip malls, office parks and industrial complexes across the land has so… Continue reading →

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How GIs fight foreclosure

Posted on June 6, 2011 by

Put yourself in their combat boots: You bought a home during the housing boom only to be forced to sell it during the housing bust due to a base transfer or deployment to a combat zone. It wasn’t your call but you’ll be saddled for years with the finan… Continue reading →

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Can the lawyer be the lender?

Posted on May 31, 2011 by

Borrowers who are facing a foreclosure lawsuit and can’t afford an attorney to fight their mortgage lenders in court have limited options — unless their lawyers get creative.
Late last year, Florida foreclosure defense attorney Peter Ticktin thought h… Continue reading →

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Help rewrite fed mortgage form

Posted on May 23, 2011 by

Following on the heels of its overhaul of credit card disclosures announced in March, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, or CFPB, last week launched its “Know Before You Owe” project, a similar attempt to streamline and clarify government-requir… Continue reading →

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Mowing the foreclosure’s lawn

Posted on April 11, 2011 by

Who’s paying to mow the lawn at that foreclosure down the block? If you own a life insurance policy, chances are it’s you, mate. Not only that, but you’re probably getting hit for twice what the guy doing the mowing is pulling down.
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Welcome to ‘housing purgatory’

Posted on March 28, 2011 by

I blinked twice at the figure: 638 days. That’s the average time it takes from an initial missed mortgage payment for the bank to complete foreclosure proceedings and change the locks here in Florida, the Foreclosure State. Nearly two years of free ren… Continue reading →

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Punch line to foreclosure-gate

Posted on February 14, 2011 by

When the banking bigs and the feds decided to turn the page and sweep “robogate” under the rug last December, it left me wanting. Not for anything as corny as justice or compassion, though both would go a long way in this foreclosure quagmire in which … Continue reading →

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