Yes, we can help at livinglies, but the numbers are so high that there is no way we have the resources to help everyone. Lawyers, accountants, analysts and others should be seeing this as a major opportunity to do well for themselves and for the owners of these homes by challenging the rights of the […]

Tags: ARIZONA, attorney malpractice, bailouts, bizjournals.com, case-Schiller index, foreclosures, home prices, home values, Kristena Hansen, median income, mega banks, seminar, Wall Street, workshop
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Obama response unclear. He keeps saying that the  object here is not to include “undeserving” borrowers who are just trying to get out of a bad deal a deal that went bad or whose eyes were bigger than their pocket book. As long as he keeps saying that he is missing the whole point. This […]

Tags: excessive comensation, home values, housing prices, RESPA, TILA, underwater, zillow
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Tags: association dues, bank regulators, Barclays, home prices, home values, pension benefits, PENSIONS, shadow banking, title insurance, title policies, underfunded pensions, Wall Street Journal, yield spread
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Florida Bankers Association, controlled by national and supersize regional banks are trying to convert Florida to a “non-judicial state.” DON’T LET IT HAPPEN!!!! Start writing letters and get others to write letters to the Republican controlled Florida legislature. This effort will not only deny homeowners essential rights it will vastly increase the pace of foreclosure […]

Tags: FBA, Florida, Florida bankers Association, home values, non-judicial, taxes
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Editor’s Comment: Any lawyer who does not think that issues relating to foreclosure will not dominate his or her practice of law is in a state of denial and delusion. The 16% drop in new home-sale contracts (see article below) means a similar or worse drop in sales over the next 30-60 days. As we […]

Tags: ARIZONA, creditors, deficiency, FICO, home values, homeowner, inflated mortgages, lenders, mortgage modification, National Assocation of Realtors, principal reduction, short sales
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McCain’s Folly The solution to the liquidity crisis continues to be a political agreement between government, business, borrowers and investors in which the obvious factors are directly addressed — overvaluation of home values, overvaluation of creditworthiness, and overvaluation of CMOs. Any plan which does not address those factors will merely be an attempt to sweep […]

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