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I have developed a loan modification and foreclosure defense method for Massachusetts homeowners that: (1) increases their chances of a successful workout agreement; (2) gets their cases prioritized and handled by the mortgage company lawyers, rather than a call-center operator with no authority; and (3) protects my clients’ credit.
When I receive a call from a [...]

Judicial Foreclosure and Non-Judicial Foreclosure are both methods comprising Arizona Foreclosure laws. Under this legislation, a Judicial Foreclosure simply requires a lawsuit in order to obtain a court order to foreclose. This becomes necessary when there is not a power of sale written into the mortgage or the deed of trust.
A power of sale is [...]

Many lawyers that specialize in mold lawsuits in real estate claim that they are helping the people who live in these properties from disease and sure death. That’s rather silly if you think about it because humankind has always lived around the mold. Humans used to live in caves and I’m sure there was mold [...]

Every state has its own set of real estate laws. Generally, the help of a real estate agent is not legally required, even though he or she can help you with items that may skirt legal ones, including preparing a home purchase contract. That being said, in some states only a lawyer is allowed to [...]

What is equity? This question keeps cropping up regularly. People who are worried about whether to opt for bankruptcy or go for IVA are not clear about the options that are available to them and what will happen to their home.
When you opt for filing bankruptcy and the court grants it, all your assets are [...]

Among the lesser known of the legal arts, real estate lawyers are not considered nearly as quickly as divorce lawyers, criminal defense attorneys or even personal injury lawyers. During many instances in a person’s life, he or she may consider hiring a lawyer for a variety of reasons. Buying a home or piece of land [...]

This is an interesting question that comes up often in eminent domain law in one primary scenario. Let’s say you are the owner of a Taco Bell in Seattle, Washington and you have built your Taco Bell on a street that is right off Highway 527. To get to your Taco Bell, people simply slow [...]

The buy to let boom of just a few years ago put many people in to the bracket of Landlord for the first time, property prices rising along with increases in standards of living and dilemmas over pensions meant an increased level of people turning to property as a long term investment and what better [...]

In the old days, railroad agents had the responsibility of buying up land from the Native Americans for right of ways upon which they could build their tracks. One story tells of a rather shrewd Chief who understood the situation well. This Chief was approached by a railroad agent who offered to buy a particularly [...]

As the mortgage foreclosure crisis continues to spread throughout the United States, state legislatures have enacted new laws that are designed to provide homeowners with additional opportunities to save their homes. In Michigan, which ranks sixth in the nation for foreclosure, the state legislature recently enacted the “Lifeline Law,” which provides homeowners with an extra [...]