short sale lawyer florida: HAFA SHORT SALES START WITHOUT A CONTRACT - 09/27/11 03:02 PM
Pretty much all the agents we work with have done HAFA short sales where the lender first saw the deal when the contract was submitted by the agent and then a BPO substantiates the FMV for the contract and the sale goes through.  HAFA has certain benefits to borrowers in that the deficiency is forgiven and there is often a move out bonus (although we often find it to be of dubious value once the closing fees are adjusted by the lender).
It is important to understand that there is a HAMP and HAFA Workbook and published “Guidelines”.  However it says … (30 comments)

short sale lawyer florida: HELP ME WITH MY TABLE OF CONTENTS ON SHORT SALES AND LOAN MODIFICATIONS - 07/09/11 09:35 AM
Since 2007 I have been accumulating my legal experience articles in one "sort of easy" repository.  You can find them at my Table of Contents.  The page contains most of my hopefully informative posts on Short Sales and Loan Modifications and distressed property issues in general from an attorney's perspective and may be a good resource for your buyers and sellers that are dealing with distressed property.  Or it may be a good resource for you or for your office.  Each is written with real estate agents in mind.
Take a look and take advantage - and give me some suggestions … (6 comments)

short sale lawyer florida: DEFICIENCY JUDGMENT AND LOAN DEFICIENCY COLLECTION SLICE AND DICE - 04/01/11 02:23 AM
A lot of speculation about deficiencies and what happens to them keep popping up in conversations I have.  This week the St. Petersburg Times published an article where a great authority (me) was quoted, along with other findings from research by the paper.  You will find it interesting and it can be found at Deficiency judgments let creditors haunt borrowers for up to 20 years.
For those of you that do not have a solid knowledge of deficiency judgments and deficiencies in general, I suggest you read my articles below:
Foreclosure Deficiency Judgment Compared to Deed In Lieu and Short Sale … (13 comments)

short sale lawyer florida: EQUATOR SYSTEM - ARE BORROWERS THAT COMPUTER LITERATE? - 02/17/10 02:00 PM
The "Equator System" is now in use by Bank of America and GMAC. Touted as a simplistic system to get short sales moving though the lender's system, is it really just an automation method that removes the human decision making element and makes our clients just a jumble of numbers?  Also, how many of your clients are trainable to learn the computer system so they can enter pages of data and create Adobe PDF files of their financial backup material and then upload it to the Equator System?

I am going to take a fast guess and say that as … (14 comments)

short sale lawyer florida: YOU LOST YOUR HOUSE - BUT YOU STILL HAVE TO PAY - CNN MONEY AND ACTIVERAIN - 02/03/10 12:22 AM
Last night I went to my first (and our area's first) ActiveRain member meeting.  For almost no publicity we had 35 brave souls venture out in the rain to meet mostly complete strangers - and we had a wonderful time seeing fellow bloggers. 
ActiveRain has been a boon to my business and recognition - for example, without ActiveRain the following article would never have included my interview with CNN-Money last week (Thank you Les Christie!) ---
You can link to the article at CNN.COM by clicking on CNN MONEY




You can link to the article at CNN.COM … (9 comments)

short sale lawyer florida: DISTRESSED HOMEOWNERS DEFRAUDED BY ATTORNEYS - EXPOSED IN CALIFORNIA - 09/23/09 02:54 PM
I have previously written about how attorneys can be great and how they can be bad in the field of helping distressed homeowners.  Now the California Bar Association has published the preliminary results of an investigation into those attorneys supposedly offering services to help distressed homeowners in one of the hardest hit states.
Attorneys, especially real estate attorney, but also divorce and family law, criminal and commercial law practitioners have had a few dismal years.  Finding a new niche appeared easy to some attorneys, especially with promises of "loan modification experts" telling them to just refer the business their way for … (12 comments)

 
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