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Florida Real Estate Law
Sharing What I Know About Florida Real Estate Law
AboutBank of America New Short Sale Program: Offering Relocation Expense Coverage to the Seller In Varying Amounts – How Good Is This Deal for Florida Homeowners?
There's a lot of news coverage this week about the announcement by Bank of America that it is introducing a new short sale program to help Florida homeowners in trouble with their mortgages. Across the country and in Florida, Bank of America itself (BofA) is putting...
What is Force-placed Insurance or Lender-Placed Insurance? It’s Not Good for Florida Home Owners. Here’s Why.
Where will all the strings of Foreclosure Fraud end? Who knows, because more and more issues just keep popping up from the huge mortgage fraud mess in Florida and across the country. The latest? Forced-placed insurance, also known as Lender-placed insurance, and...
New Florida Condo Law Gives Builders and Developers Break on Responsibility for Flaws in Roads, Sewers, and Other Infrastructure in Florida Communities and Condo Projects
Florida condo owners along with home owners' associations (HOAs) and community associations and the like better get ready: the legislation that we have been monitoring regarding common area implied warranties for Florida builders and developers just got signed into...
Florida Supreme Court to Decide Sanctions for Foreclosure Fraud Documents Filed by Big Bank: Pino v. Bank of New York – Big Question for All Florida Foreclosure Fraud Victims
Next Thursday, the Florida Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a big Florida foreclosure defense case - so big, in fact, that lots of banks are complaining to the news media that there will be a huge state-wide financial crisis if the Florida Supreme Court sides...
Florida Hardest Hit Fund – New Expanded Version Waits for Fed Approval. Will It Help You?
Last Friday, the State of Florida powers-that-be announced that they were revamping the Hardest Hit Fund for Florida residents, making eligibility requirements easier to meet for lots of Floridians. Which is good news if you are past due on your mortgage payments,...
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi Asks for Public Input on How to Spend Part of Foreclosure Fraud Settlement: Don’t Think This Means That Florida Is Finished With Foreclosure Fraud / Robosigning Problems: Not By a Long Shot.
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi issued a news release yesterday (you can read the full text of her press release below) that asks Floridians to help decide how the big fat settlement from the five big banks (Ally/GMAC;Bank of America; Citi; JPMorgan Chase; and...
Florida Real Estate Market: Are Florida Home Owners About to See a Better Residential Real Estate Market? Is Now the Time to Buy or Sell? Not Without Legal Advice.
Florida real estate owners and home owners throughout the Sunshine State are very, very concerned about their real estate values: not only where they have been and where they are now, but where they will be in the future. Media stories about real estate prices and...
Florida “Wild Deeds” – Just One More Florida Land Title Issue For Quiet Title Actions: What is a “Wild Deed”?
Last Update: 02/24/16 Last fall, Osceola County Clerk of the Court joined other Florida officials in warning the public at large that con artists were at work in the State of Florida, taking advantage of the Foreclosure Fraud mess by filing "wild deeds" in the real...
Dispute Resolution of Condo Controversies Outside the Courtroom: Settlement, Mediation, and Arbitration of Condo Association and Selective Enforcement Controversies
The State of Florida does its part to protect home owners living in shared residential communities (condominiums, timeshares, mobile homes) not only through the passage of legislation designed to assist in the resolution of disputes that may arise, but also by the...
Selective Enforcement Defense Against Florida Condo Boards and Community Associations (HOAs): Are Condo Associations Playing Favorites? Can Florida Home Owners Fight Back?
Last Update: 08/01/16 When you buy a home in a community - be it a condominium or gated community - that is subject to a condo or homeowners' association, then like it or not, you are giving up a bit of your freedom in order to live there. The benefits of living in...
