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• Florida Closing Costs in a Short Sale: Who Pays Closing Costs When Seller Short Sales to Avoid Foreclosure?

  In a successful short sale, the seller and the mortgage lender have reached an agreement, either as part of foreclosure defense negotiations or in underwater mortgage loan modification talks, to allow the home to be sold in an arms length third party transaction.   The bank is agreeing to have the [...]

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• Florida Closing Costs: What They Are and Will the Bank Pay Them in Your Florida Home Loan Closing?

  As Florida’s real estate market continues to be complicated and chaotic – thanks to all the robo-signing and Foreclosure Fraud crises, in no small part – lenders hopefully will be looking at real estate closing costs.  It’s not a new idea for banks to pay closing costs in an [...]

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• Florida Foreclosure Defense and The Stigma of Foreclosure: David Cassidy Understands What Fellow Underwater Mortgage Florida Home Owners Fighting Bank Foreclosures Are Feeling – And So Should Your Foreclosure Defense Lawyer

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  Florida home owners fighting foreclosure and/or making mortgage payments on underwater mortgages have a lot on their minds.  They have to way their options and evaluate how their decisions will impact their families and their own well being.  With all of these issues, they may be comforted to know that [...]

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• Florida Foreclosure Defense – Negotiating Loan Modifications With Banks Is Still Tough: Banks Try to Get Balloon Payments Instead of Cutting Home Loan Amounts and Reducing Mortgage Principal

  Florida has been hit very, very hard by foreclosure fraud and many Florida home owners, both facing foreclosure and those with underwater mortgages who are still making their mortgage payments, have been keeping their ears to the ground regarding the big mortgage fraud settlement that has been in the national [...]

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• Challenging Wills and Will Contests: Florida Law and the Lessons of Guma Aguiar and Thomas Kinkade – It’s Best to Have a Current Will and Estate Plan, Don’t Just Leave Notes Around Because Florida Law May Not Respect Your Wishes

  Contesting a will or challenging who should control the assets (and money) of an estate of someone who is dead, presumed dead, or missing not only makes for good plots in murder mysteries and thrillers, but it’s also something that probate lawyers and estate planning attorneys see happening every day [...]

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• Broward County Probate Court Has International Intrigue as Mother and Wife Fight Over Control of Missing Millionaire Guma Aguiar’s Florida Assets: Lessons for You and Me

  It’s not often that Florida probate courts – especially the local Broward County probate court – makes international news, but that’s what happened recently when the mother and wife of a missing man appeared before local Probate Judge Mark A. Speiser to fight over what to do about controlling [...]

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