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Florida Real Estate Law
Sharing What I Know About Florida Real Estate Law
AboutFlorida Deficiency Judgment Overturned by Florida Court: Bank Loses Deficiency Because it Fails to Provide Valid Evidence of Fair Market Value
Deficiency judgments are a real concern for home owners facing foreclosure or dealing with short sales here in South Florida. Under Florida law, even after the home has been sold and the sales price used to pay down the mortgage amount, the lender still has the legal...
5 Things to Know About Leasing a Home After a Foreclosure in South Florida
A foreclosure is not the end of the world for the family that has lost their home to the bank in a foreclosure proceeding. That family can still have a new home, except it will be one that they will be renting instead of owning. Now, they will be dealing with...
Florida Closing Costs in a Short Sale: Who Pays Closing Costs When Seller Short Sales to Avoid Foreclosure?
In a successful short sale, the seller and the mortgage lender have reached an agreement, either as part of foreclosure defense negotiations or in underwater mortgage loan modification talks, to allow the home to be sold in an arms length third party transaction. ...
Florida Closing Costs: What They Are and Will the Bank Pay Them in Your Florida Home Loan Closing?
Last Update: 02/24/16 As Florida's real estate market continues to be complicated and chaotic - thanks to all the robo-signing and Foreclosure Fraud crises, in no small part - lenders hopefully will be looking at real estate closing costs. It's not a new idea for...
Florida Foreclosure Defense and The Stigma of Foreclosure: David Cassidy Understands What Fellow Underwater Mortgage Florida Home Owners Fighting Bank Foreclosures Are Feeling – And So Should Your Foreclosure Defense Lawyer
Florida home owners fighting foreclosure and/or making mortgage payments on underwater mortgages have a lot on their minds. They have to way their options and evaluate how their decisions will impact their families and their own well being. With all of these issues,...
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...
Challenging Wills and Will Contests: Florida Law and the Lessons of Guma Aguiar and Thomas Kinkade – It’s Best to Have a Current Will and Estate Plan, Don’t Just Leave Notes Around Because Florida Law May Not Respect Your Wishes
Contesting a will or challenging who should control the assets (and money) of an estate of someone who is dead, presumed dead, or missing not only makes for good plots in murder mysteries and thrillers, but it's also something that probate lawyers and estate planning...
Broward County Probate Court Has International Intrigue as Mother and Wife Fight Over Control of Missing Millionaire Guma Aguiar’s Florida Assets: Lessons for You and Me
It's not often that Florida probate courts - especially the local Broward County probate court - makes international news, but that's what happened recently when the mother and wife of a missing man appeared before local Probate Judge Mark A. Speiser to fight over...
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 foreclosure...
The Florida Foreclosure Process in 10 Steps
Last Update: 10/10/20 Pay Special Attention to Step #4 otherwise you lose and you lose quickly! It's a sad reality in today's economy that many people either face the possibility of foreclosure, are in the process of defending against foreclosure, or know a family...
