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Will Florida Home Owners Get a Home Loan Mortgage From Walmart? Walmart, Paypal, CostCo and Others Moving into Banking Business: Will Florida Law Protections Be There for You Too? Maybe Not.

People in Florida, particularly South Florida, have learned a lot about how banks work just by reading their newspaper or watching the news.  There have been countless stories written and so much other media coverage of the banking industry related to foreclosure...

Florida Short Sales, Deficiencies, and Taxes: Will 2012 Fiscal Cliff Bring End to Income Tax Forgiveness on Deficiencies or Will Florida Short Sales in 2013 Have Forgiven Mortgage Debt as Taxable?

For many months now, we’ve been monitoring the FIT situation for underwater mortgages, as well as those homeowners facing foreclosure, regarding Florida short sales and the current income exclusion from federal income taxes.  In short, back in 2007 a law was...

Short Sale Hardship Letters to South Florida Banks and Proving Home Owner Financial Hardship for Short Sale Bank Approval: Things to Consider

Last Update:02/24/16 The news is out for October 2012, and once again Florida ranks number one in foreclosures in the United States according to RealtyTrac research.  It seems that one in every 312 housing units in Florida was hit with a foreclosure filing in October...

New Florida Law May Void Beneficiary Designations in Divorces: Florida Statute 732.703 and End of Life Planning for Divorced Couples and Those Thinking of Divorcing

There’s a new law here in Florida that people need to know about – especially if they are divorced or in the midst of getting themselves divorced here in Florida and that law is Florida Statute 732.703.  You can read the law as written on the books by the...

Federal Housing Finance Agency Pushes Banks to Go After Home Owner Borrowers for Deficiencies: October 17 Report Wants More Revenue to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac From Deficiency Collections

Watch out: yesterday a new report was released by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FNFA) that finds mortgage bank agencies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac  could increase their revenue by aggressively going after collection of deficiencies on home loans and on...

Florida Short Sales: New GSE Short Sale Rules from Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae – How a Short Sale in 2012 Helps Sellers Now and When They Buy a Home in the Future

Effective November 1, 2012, anyone with a government-sponsored-enterprise (GSE) mortgage home loan that can prove one of the hardships recognized by the federal government may short sell their home even if they are current in their mortgage payments — and the...