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Posted on Nov 17, 2011 By Deborah A. Carman, Esq.
Despite some encouraging housing figures in recent months analysts are now predicting the current surge in foreclosure fillings will cause a triple dip in Florida home prices. New statistics revealed ...
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Posted on Nov 11, 2011 By Deborah A. Carman, Esq.
Still ranking in the top 6 states in the nation for foreclosure filings, the need for Florida foreclosure defense services is hardly likely to diminish anytime soon. In September of this year alone, ...
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Posted on Aug 15, 2011 By Florida Foreclosure Defense Attorney
Florida Bankruptcy Rates Decrease By Fifteen Percent From Previous Year According to numbers released by the Florida District U.S. Bankruptcy Court, last years record number of bankruptcies has slowed ...
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Posted on Jul 5, 2011 By Florida Foreclosure Defense Attorney
Hidden inventory stuck in legal system may soon find its way into Lee market By DICK HOGAN dhogan@news-press.com Demand for homes in Lee County is brisk and prices are headed up — that's ...
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Posted on Apr 4, 2011 By Deborah A. Carman, Esq.
Since the beginning of the year, I have warned that Florida foreclosures were on-hold, sort of a calm before the storm, and when they resurfaced, which they would… it would be with a vengeance! Fast ...
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Posted on Apr 4, 2011 By Admin
Scott Pelley explains a bizarre aftershock of the U.S. financial collapse: An epidemic of forged and missing mortgage documents. . Do you know who really owns your mortgage? As Scott Pelley reports on ...
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Posted on Mar 28, 2011 By Admin
By Kimberly Miller and Christine Stapleton Palm Beach Post Staff Writers He once lived just steps from the ocean in a home valued last decade at more than $500,000 . But John Ericksen has fallen - far ...
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Posted on Mar 25, 2011 By Admin
The Law Offices of Marshall C. Watson , P.A. in Fort Lauderdale agreed to a $2 million payment and operating restrictions in a settlement of an investigation by the Florida Attorney General’s Office. ...
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Posted on Mar 23, 2011 By Admin
Number of Florida lawyers under investigation for foreclosure-related wrongdoing grows By Kimberly Miller - Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Florida Bar President Mayanne Downs predicts some Florida ...
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Posted on Mar 23, 2011 By Admin
Broward County is now requiring a ten-day notice to cancel residential foreclosure auctions, a move that certainly could pose major problems for homeowners, especially those that are trying to ...
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Posted on Mar 23, 2011 By Admin
There are no words to describe this one... Embattled foreclosure attorney David J. Stern has filed about $15 million in claims against eight lenders he formerly represented. Stern recently filed eight ...
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Posted on Mar 14, 2011 By Admin
The WikiLeaks-allied hacker group Anonymous has posted a series of emails purported to be from a former Bank of America employee, which the organization says prove "corruption and fraud" at the ...
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Posted on Mar 10, 2011 By Deborah A. Carman, Esq.
Although Florida's foreclosure filings continued to plummet in February, dropping about 65 percent compared with the same time last year it's not because the banks want to help you or it's some signal ...
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Posted on Mar 10, 2011 By Admin
The Federal Trade Commission is investigating Ocwen Financial Corp., which has turned over documents relating to the company’s home loan servicing and foreclosure activities. Ocwen, which has 245 ...
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Posted on Mar 8, 2011 By Deborah A. Carman, Esq.
Our client a single woman has like most Floridians been caught in the nasty grip of this bad economy. She had visited our office for a consultation in the hope that we could save her home since as she ...
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Posted on Mar 8, 2011 By Admin
The many woes of Florida’s housing market are well-known: hundreds of thousands of foreclosures, millions of underwater mortgages and a four-year trail of depreciating property values. Florida ...
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Posted on Mar 3, 2011 By Admin
Lisa Goodner, Florida courts administrator, says residential mortgage foreclosures in Florida will double to roughly 365,000 in state fiscal year 2011-12, which begins July 1. Another expert predicts ...
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Posted on Feb 23, 2011 By Admin
The office of the Florida Attorney General has opened an investigation into Ben-Ezra & Katz, a Hollywood law firm that processes thousands of foreclosures for lenders, on allegations of presenting ...
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Posted on Feb 21, 2011 By Admin
A court-initiated foreclosure mediation program in Florida has a somewhat spotty track record after releasing results from the first four-month mediation cycle. Foreclosure mediation programs are ...
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Posted on Feb 21, 2011 By Admin
"In yet another sign that times are tougher for Plantation foreclosure attorney David Stern, he is looking to unload luxury assets worth tens of millions, including two estate properties on Hillsboro ...
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Posted on Feb 21, 2011 By Admin
The criminal cloud hanging over the founder and former chief of Countrywide Financial Corp. has been lifted -- though that could change if ongoing civil litigation reveals new facts. Behind the ...
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Posted on Feb 16, 2011 By Admin
Fannie's Action Leads to Hundreds of Layoffs Fannie Mae's decision last week to terminate a Florida law firm that has handled more than 18,000 foreclosures has left hundreds of employees out of work. ...
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Posted on Feb 12, 2011 By Admin
A day after federal mortgage giant Fannie Mae fired the prominent law firm of Ben-Ezra & Katz, a Miami judge found the firm's founding partner, Marc Ben-Ezra, in contempt of court for filing ...
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Posted on Feb 11, 2011 By Admin
Federal mortgage giant Fannie Mae has cut ties with a second South Florida law firm handling its foreclosure cases, requiring an immediate transfer of those files to other attorneys and likely causing ...
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Posted on Jan 5, 2011 By Deborah A. Carman, Esq.
Although the statewide data was incomplete, it undoubtedly indicates that Florida's Foreclosure Mediation Program has failed. As I anticipated from its inception, the Foreclosure Mediation Program has ...
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