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Florida Foreclosure Defense – Negotiating Loan Modifications With Banks Is Still Tough: Banks Try to Get Balloon Payments Instead of Cutting Home Loan Amounts and Reducing Mortgage Principal

Florida has been hit very, very hard by foreclosure fraud and many Florida home owners, both facing foreclosure and those with underwater mortgages who are still making their mortgage payments, have been keeping their ears to the ground regarding the big mortgage...

Foreclosure Defense Needs a Courtroom: Movement to Take Judicial Review From Foreclosure Process Means The Florida Home Owner Would Lose Right to Fight Foreclosure Before a Judge

In Florida, foreclosure defense involves dealing with the court system: a lawsuit is filed at the local courthouse, with the home owner being named as a foreclosure defendant.  The home owner is given the right, with the Court’s assistance, to fight the...

Florida Foreclosure Defense: Broward County and all of Florida Facing Many More Foreclosures – Experts Agree, Don’t Believe the Hype

In this week’s Sarasota Herald Tribune, there’s an interesting and important interview by reporter Tom Lyons of Florida Foreclosure specialist  April Charney.  (You can read the complete interview here.)  You may recognize her name:  as an attorney at...

Florida Short Sales Are Booming in Broward County in 2012: 30% Increase From Last Year According to RealtyTrac (and a 18% Boost in 2012 Short Sales Statewide)

Short sales in Florida are happening more and more often; in fact, the good news out of Broward County, Florida, is that short sales have topped the number of foreclosures that were filed in the first quarter of 2012 – and this is big, big news since that...

How Force Placed Insurance Can Force You Into Foreclosure: Another Lender Abuse That Pushes Florida Homeowners Into Losing Their Homes

For those fighting to keep their homes in Florida and elsewhere, every penny counts in the monthly budget.  It’s hard to write that monthly mortgage check, especially where it is a payment being made on an underwater mortgage.  Homeowners already on this...

Florida Mortgage Foreclosure Fraud Settlement Proceeds: $33 Million Diverted to Florida General Fund. Open Question: How Much of the Settlement Will Help the Average Florida Home Owner? Not Much?

Investigative reporting by ProPublica recently revealed that lots of state governments involved in the big Mortgage Foreclosure Fraud settlement between the Big Banks and the State Attorneys General have taken big chunks of the settlement monies for use in things...