Out of State Homeowners Who Owned Florida Real Estate are Facing Bank Collection Efforts in Their Home State (or Country) Because of a Florida Foreclosure Judgment: Domesticating Judgments

| April 16, 2013

For those who live outside of the State of Florida but who own or owned Florida real estate subject to foreclosure, the possibility of that foreclosure’s deficiency judgment being collected in your resident state is real. Florida Deficiency Judgments Have Five Year Statute of Limitations Deadline Deficiency judgments?  We’ve written a lot about deficiency judgments [...]

Florida Legislature Annual Session Begins Today: Proposed Laws That Impact South Florida Home Owners In a Big Way Are on the Table

| March 5, 2013

Today, the 60-day annual session of the Florida Legislature begins, and the entire country is watching.  The next nine weeks are going to be a very important time for Floridians, especially Florida home owners. Things began with Governor Rick Scott’s State of the State address (read it here) but for Florida home owners and Florida [...]

Florida Short Sales Target of Federal and State Legislation: New Proposed Laws to Help Florida Home Owners Trying to Short Sell Their Home

| February 28, 2013

Florida home owners fighting foreclosure, and foreclosure defense attorneys, and Florida lawyers helping with short sales for that matter, may need a bit of good news after dealing with the ramifications of the Florida Supreme Court’s decision in Pino v. Bank of New York this month – and we’re getting some from lawmakers in Tallahassee [...]

Florida Short Sales and Florida Foreclosure Defense Deadline for Tax Benefits is Now December 31, 2013 After Fiscal Cliff Legislation Signed Into Law Today

| January 3, 2013

When you hear the talking heads discuss how Washington has “kicked the can down the road,” for Florida home owners and those Floridians interested in short sales or mortgage foreclosure defense this means one thing: they’ve got one more year to get their property sold. According to the Fiscal Cliff legislation that was signed into [...]

Florida Mortgage Loan Modifications Denials and Modification Appeals: Submission and Re-Submitting of Loan Modifications in Fraud-Filled Florida Real Estate Marketplace To Get Your Deal Done

| December 4, 2012

Loan modifications of home loan mortgages are in the news these days — and lots of these home loan modification stories are scary horror stories that are filled with all kinds of villains taking advantage of good people for money.  It’s greed, in several different forms.  Loan modifications should be straight-forward and pretty easy to [...]