All posts tagged "foreclosure"
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6.1K1Deed of TrustFormer Forclosure Mill Owner and Florida King of Foreclosures, Barred Attorney David Stern Sells Hillsboro Beach Home for a Loss
As you can see, Stern is living the hard life after his disbarment. He now owns a series of 5 Guys Burger...
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2.1KEditors ChoiceEditors Choice: U.S. Supreme Court Rule Debt Collecting Foreclosure Attorneys are Not Debt Collectors under the FDCPA
Congress may think these state protections adequate, or it may choose to expand the reach of the FDCPA. Regardless, for the reasons...
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1.3KDebt CollectorNo Reyes of Hope as Fifth Circuit Manipulates Numbers to Ignore It’s Own Precedent FDCPA Case Law
Before recording a privilege, (aka, start foreclosure proceedings) Steeg Law’s practice is to transmit lien letters to unit owners. These letters relate...
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1.3KEditors ChoiceEditors Choice: Is Foreclosure Debt Collection? The US Supreme Court Heard Oral Arguments on Monday (Minus a Recovering Justice Ginsberg)
Justice Samuel Alito (for the Fifth Circuit) seemed the most receptive to that argument (a foreclosure is NOT a debt collection), telling...
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1.6KForeclosuresSupreme Court of Florida Decides Homeowner is Entitled to Attorney Fees in Foreclosure Case
Because our case law is clear that a voluntary dismissal of an appeal renders the opposing party the prevailing party for the...
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1.3KEditors ChoiceEditors Choice: Is Foreclosure Debt Collection? The US Supreme Court to Decide if FDCPA Applies to Foreclosure Mills and Bounty Hunting Attorneys
Were the Supreme Court to want to include attorneys effecting nonjudicial foreclosures under the FDCPA’s definition of debt collectors, it might find...
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1.4KFifth CircuitThe Fifth Circuit’s Carol: Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Carol Paselk sued the defendants for foreclosing on her residential property. Representative Farenthold publicly promised to reimburse the U.S. Treasury for $84,000...
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1.4KForeclosuresA Hedge Fund Makes Billions Off Americans’ Underwater Mortgages
Fortunes were made on Wall Street betting against sketchy mortgages before the housing bust a decade ago. In its aftermath, one firm...
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1.6KFake DocumentsThe Kansas Shuffle by Deutsche Bank, an early opinion by NY Judge Schack in the Mortgage Robosigning Scandal
A Kansas City Shuffle is when everybody looks right, you go left .. . It's not something people hear about. Falls on...
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1.6KEditors ChoiceEditors Choice: From the Trenches, a Lawyers Opinion
WE must take responsibility for our economy and become, first more educated, and secondly, more opinioned clients of financial providers as opposed...
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1.5KEditors ChoiceEditors Choice: Wells Fargo Bank, Here’s $15,000 for Wrongful Eviction and Foreclosure, Our Bad
We were desperate. I begged them for help, homeowner Eva Reiner says. But Wells Fargo did not accept their requests for a...
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1.8KEditors ChoiceEditors Choice: Throwback to Foreclosure and the General Election of 2016
Do not expect the Trump administration to offer relief to the more than 7 million American families still under water on their...
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1.1KForeclosuresThere were 66,401 properties with foreclosure filings in October, a jump of 21% from the previous month
Foreclosure activity is down nationwide from a year ago, but certain local housing markets tell a different story.
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1.6KForeclosuresForeclosure firm admits to cheating and Over-billing Millions
A New York foreclosure law firm admitted to defrauding Fannie Mae and the Department of Veterans Affairs out of millions of dollars...
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1.7KEditors ChoiceEditors Choice: Deutsche Bank and Ocwen Loan Servicing LLC Foreclosure Defeated by Homeowners in Mobile, Alabama
A $400,000 jury verdict for a husband and wife after their home was wrongfully foreclosed on by Deutsche Bank National Trust Company...
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1.5KForeclosures736 to 309, Now that’s a Writ Off
The House of Representatives will vote on a dangerous bill, H.R. 5082, called the Practice of Law Technical Clarification Act of 2018 sponsored by...
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1.5KDebt CollectorTexas Republican Vincente Gonzalez Selling out Texans by Sponsoring HR 5082
The House of Representatives will vote on a dangerous bill, H.R. 5082, called the Practice of Law Technical Clarification Act of 2018 sponsored by...
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1.3KDebt CollectorThe CFPB should change it’s name from Consumer to Pro-Bank Bureau
The CFPB or more aptly named the Pro-Bank Bureau, asserts that deeming the initiation of a non-judicial foreclosure proceeding to be debt...
