Archives by Tag ' ATTORNEY FEES '
Dec 26, 2019

The main point is that borrowers must calibrate their thinking. Debtors are not dealing with anyone who wants to collect payments. They are dealing with someone who wants a foreclosure so they can steal the proceeds. The forced sale of the house generates revenue that is distributed to several players involved in the foreclosure effort […]

Oct 31, 2018

There is no doubt in the minds of most serious trial lawyers who dig deep enough that homeowners can and should win all or most of the foreclosure cases. There is also little doubt that homeowners will lose by default or by inadequate presentation and well-founded attacks on the foreclosing party’s existence and ownership of […]

Aug 7, 2018

This was no mistake. It is one of many ploys to make modification unlikely or impossible. WFB wants foreclosures not modifications. That way they get to steal from investors, steal from homeowners and get away with it! Once again, WFB is caught cheating homeowners, producing needless foreclosures (using the so-called “modification” process), leaving the homeowners […]

Feb 27, 2018

By the LendingLies Staff Glass-v-Nationstar Mortgage On February 13, 2018, the Florida Supreme Court accepted jurisdiction in an appeal emanating from a controversial issue in contested foreclosures – can a homeowner in foreclosure litigation secure attorney’s fees after successfully defending against foreclosure on the basis that the lender lacked standing to enforce the mortgage contract? […]

Feb 16, 2018

Under current doctrine, banks can continually file baseless claims against homeowners until they win — mostly because the homeowner does not have infinite resources. In the meanwhile each time the banks lose they are not liable for attorney fees. But if they win they get attorney fees under F.S. §57.105. If the homeowner prevails on […]

Feb 13, 2018

The continuing bias in favor of the banks’ fraudulent scheme of mortgages and foreclosures gives rise now to a nutty theory. The logic seems so obvious to the courts and yet it is erroneous. In a nutshell the theory goes, if a homeowner eventually proves that the parties attempting to foreclose have nothing to do […]

Mar 9, 2017

Appellate courts stepping on a rake: This thread of decisions makes it extremely important for attorneys representing homeowners to establish the earliest possible safe harbor period so they can recover fees when they win. These decisions are essentially punishing homeowners on the grounds that they won on an issue that revealed the underhanded, fictitious narratives […]

Aug 22, 2016

FDCPA & FCCPA Claims Gaining Traction: Lessons from Goodin v. Bank of America Across the country, homeowners are increasingly finding success under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) and state-level consumer protection laws such as Florida’s FCCPA. A clear example is Goodin v. Bank of America (M.D. Fla.), where Judge Corrigan issued a carefully […]

Sep 18, 2014

Banks Use Modifications Against Homeowners Click in or phone in at The Neil Garfield Show Or call in at (347) 850-1260, 6pm EDT Thursdays It is bad enough that they outright lie to homeowners and tell them they MUST be 90 days behind in payments to get a modification. That isn’t true and it is […]

Sep 27, 2011

MOST POPULAR ARTICLES GET COMBO TITLE AND SECURITIZATION ANALYSIS – CLICK HERE When I was litigating 24/7 I used to say that all the best ideas I ever had for the Courtroom came from my clients. I think the reason is fairly simple: they had to live with the result I didn’t. No matter how […]