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Florida Real Estate Law

Sharing What I Know About Florida Real Estate Law

Florida Foreclosure Help Scams and Mortgage Relief Fraud: Con Artists Prey on Florida Homeowners and Borrowers Promising to Help Fight Foreclosure – Don’t Be a Victim

Updated: 9/11/18 Florida foreclosures are still a big problem for Florida borrowers; Florida homeowners; Florida lenders; and everyone else in the State of Florida impacted by the Florida housing industry or Florida real estate market. Yes, that’s pretty much everyone...

Infographic: Banking on Arbitration (Courtesy Pew Trusts)

by Larry Tolchinsky

Last Update: 11/11/18 88% of Consumers Are Not Happy With The Bank Arbitration Process. Source: https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/data-visualizations/2012/banking-on-arbitration

Forced Arbitration and Consumers: Florida Consumers Claims Against Companies Are Getting Harder to Fight

by Larry Tolchinsky

Alternative dispute resolution - ways to resolve disputes outside of a courtroom - are supposed to be helpful to the Little Guy, the consumer who does not have the resources in time and money to fight the Big Corporation that has harmed him or her in some way. That’s...

Infographic: Top 25 Markets for Flipping Homes

by Larry Tolchinsky

Flippers Making Lots of Money in South Florida: Is this Great News for Short Sale Home Owners and Florida Borrowers Fighting Foreclosure?

by Larry Tolchinsky

This week, Moody’s is reporting on investors being concerned about how long it’s taking states with judicial foreclosure procedures (like Florida, New York, and New Jersey) to clear out all those residential foreclosures because the carrying costs of those loans...

July 2013 CoreLogic Report Shows Florida No. 1 in the USA for Foreclosures and Foreclosure Inventory with Florida Homeowners Facing Foreclosure Having Even Bigger Fight on Their Hands.

by Larry Tolchinsky

Today, research and analysis company CoreLogic® released its June 2013 National Foreclosure Report and the numbers of foreclosures across the United States has dropped twenty percent in the past year while from May 2013 to June 2013, the number of completed...

Forced Arbitration In Florida

by Larry Tolchinsky

Last Update: 10/16/19 Forced Arbitration on Consumers is a Reality - Consumers Don't Get a Trial It is true that in Florida, arbitration is becoming a very popular alternative dispute resolution (ADR) method. There are several reasons for this. Some point to the...

Infographic: What Can Saving One Home From Foreclosure Do?

by Larry Tolchinsky

Jail Time for Robo-Signing Foreclosure Fraud Defendant Lorraine Brown of DocX: Is She a Scapegoat or Is Justice Served

by Larry Tolchinsky

Fraud in real estate documents is a serious problem for Florida, both for the present buyers and sellers of real property as well as for Florida real estate owners in the future --- the stability of land ownership has as its cornerstone the reliability of the paper...