Are Better Qualified Borrowers, Cash Buyers and Blackstone The Reason Why...
Recent News About The South Florida Real Estate Recovery Apparently, the housing recovery in South Florida, something that I still don’t understand, is going to push prices up again this year. The...
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Florida Families After a Foreclosure: What Happens to Florida Households...
The impact of a foreclosure upon a family and its financial future has been the subject of many studies over the last several years, particularly after the recent Housing Crisis hit the United States....
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Lost Notes in Florida Foreclosure Cases: Banks Must Prove Their Case With...
Lost Note and Your Foreclosure Defense: How Can The Bank Foreclosure If They Cannot Find the Original Promissory Note? Even though the dust has settled here in Florida from all of the Foreclosure...
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Dyck-O’Neal Increases Florida Deficiency Judgment Collection Efforts?: 19...
I believe in an effort to meet the July 2014 deadline related to Florida deficiency judgments, in appears as if Dyck-O’Neal has been aggressively filing lawsuits to collect on old foreclosure...
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19 Reasons To Hire a Real Estate Lawyer When Buying or Selling Florida Real...
In Florida, particularly South Florida, families want to own a home; retirees want to buy a condo or townhouse; investors from around the country and world want investment property, including rentals;...
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Can a Florida Bank File a New Foreclose Lawsuit 5 Years After Your Case Was...
Last Friday, the case of U.S. Bank National Association vs. Patricia J. Bartram, et al was decided by the Florida Fifth District Court of Appeals, and it’s potentially very bad news for all the Florida...
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Did You Get A Letter From A Debt Collector For A Florida Mortgage Deficiency...
What happens when you get a letter from a debt collector — like Dyck O’Neal — related a deficiency from a foreclosure or short sale of a Florida home? WARNING FROM US: First things first, please be...
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Collins Asset Group, LLC – Another Florida Debt Collector Seeking to Beat The...
I received a call today about another debt collector seeking to beat the July 1, 2014 deadline for collecting on old deficiency judgments – Collins Asset Group, LLC – a company located in Austin,...
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Vantium Capital – Strategic Recovery Group – Update on Florida Deficiency...
Quick Update on Florida Deficiency Collection Efforts Recently, we have been receiving calls about Vantium Capital – Strategic Recovery Group – which is a Texas based company who is trying to collect...
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Florida Foreclosures – What’s Happening Now?
Update on what we are seeing now with Florida foreclosures and related issues – 1. Foreclosure filings have remained steady in the last few weeks – this is based upon the number of calls we are...
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Florida Foreclosures – What’s Happening Now?
December 2014 update on what we are seeing now with Florida foreclosures and related issues – 1. Foreclosure filings have remained steady in the last few weeks – this observation is based upon the...
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New Conflict in Florida Foreclosure Law Related to Banks Ability to File a...
From a legal perspective, Florida is divided into regions or “districts” that have mid-level review courts (appeals courts) set up to oversee and review the decisions and determinations of lower trial...
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Holiday Foreclosure Surprise: No Federal Income Tax on 2014 Short Sales
Last week, before President Obama left the White House for his family holiday in Hawaii, he signed into law the Tax Increase Prevention Act of 2014. This is now the law of the land, just in time for...
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Facing Foreclosure in Florida? Getting Deposition Testimony of the Bank Is...
Here in South Florida, a healthy number of foreclosure lawsuits are still being filed every week causing lots of stress for home owners. Sadly, many of these home owners have thrown their hands up at...
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Beware When Buying A Florida Foreclosure Or Distressed Property? Did Your...
In Florida, foreclosures are still happening even though the official “foreclosure fraud crisis” has passed. (Read more about that in our free Foreclosure Fraud e-book, “The Non-Lawyer’s Guide to...
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Florida Foreclosure Appeal on The Issue of Standing – Victory Against Bank of...
We do not make a practice of sharing every foreclosure victory in a blog post. It is not our style. However, the recent publication of our appellate win against Bank of America merits some discussion...
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Florida Foreclosure Appeals
Florida is a “judicial foreclosure state.” Under our banking laws, when a bank seeks to exercise its right to obtain ownership of real property because of a breach of a mortgage, or a promissory note...
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Bartram: Florida Supreme Court Decision on Foreclosure Lawsuit Deadlines
If you are being sued for foreclosure here in Florida, or you suspect you may be facing foreclosure in your future, then you need to know about this month’s Bartram ruling. 1. Why is the Bartram...
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Can You Collect Attorney Fees From a Bank Related To A Foreclosure?
Residential foreclosures are still a problem for many home owners in Florida, particularly here in Broward County, Miami-Dade County, and Palm Beach County. To make matters worse, some banks are still...
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Court Procedures That Can Delay Foreclosure
In Florida, those fighting a residential foreclosure should be aware of the procedures often used by lawyers and judges that delay a foreclosure lawsuit from proceeding. Two of these procedures are...
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