Consumer Rights Blog
Posted on Nov 3, 2011 By Rex Powell
Perhaps you have fallen behind on monthly mortgage payments and feel you are running out of options. Maybe you have experienced a significant change in income, or are concerned about your ...
Continue reading "Short Sales Explained" »
Posted on Nov 2, 2011 By Rex Powell
I've recently tweeted links to some news articles which discuss a new "foreclosure review" program recently made available by federal regulators. This new program, brought forward by the ...
Continue reading "Federal Bank Regulators Promise Foreclosure Reviews" »
Posted on Feb 24, 2011 By Rex Powell
Faced with the realization that there are expected to be up to 13 million foreclosures through 2012, Legislators are finally taking steps to ensure that the banks and servicers do not reject ...
Continue reading "Helping banks negotiate" »
Posted on Jan 26, 2011 By Rex Powell
Residential foreclosure cases in Lee County are being dismissed in large numbers over the last few weeks. I've personally seen hundreds of cases dismissed. The obvious question is, why? The answer ...
Continue reading "Lee County Foreclosures - Major Increase in Dismissals" »
Posted on Dec 8, 2010 By Rex Powell
It doesn't seem so long ago that we were hearing in the news about an investigation brewing regarding the widespread abuses and the general foreclosure crisis going on throughout the country. In ...
Continue reading "Florida AG investigation" »
Posted on Oct 25, 2010 By Rex Powell
Here we are, a few weeks into the storm of media coverage regarding the robo signing debacle and the general foreclosure crisis. The Attorneys General of all 50 states have launched a joint ...
Continue reading "So where do we go from here? " »
Posted on Oct 13, 2010 By Rex Powell
As expected, the Attorneys General in 49 states have released a joint letter regarding the robo signer debacle . In a nutshell, it looks like a bi-partisan task force is being set up among the AG's ...
Continue reading "Attorneys General Sign Mortgage Foreclosure Statement re: Robo Signers" »
Posted on Oct 11, 2010 By Rex Powell
I keep thinking that I've seen it all when it comes to the Robo Signing debacle. Well, as I've said before, the hits just keep on rolling... This blog has reported that the President of the United ...
Continue reading "Just in case you thought this Robo Signing thing was limited in scope..." »
Posted on Oct 5, 2010 By Rex Powell
The latest from the Fraudulent Foreclosure Front: Senator Merkley has written a letter to the Secretary of Treasury, as well as HUD, regarding the myriad problems associated with the foreclosure ...
Continue reading "And the hits just keep on rolling..." »
Posted on Oct 4, 2010 By Rex Powell
Check out this price list from DocX, the leading provider of forged and fabricated documents. Plaintiffs, do you need assignments backdated? No problem! Need to fabricate a document to present to a ...
Continue reading "Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, get your bogus documents here!" »
Posted on Oct 4, 2010 By Rex Powell
Freddie Mac, perhaps after hearing about a letter from several Congressmen , has written an open letter to its servicers , relating to the questionable affidavit practices which are now in the news. ...
Continue reading "Freddie Mac to Servicers: Do you know what you are signing?" »
Posted on Sep 23, 2010 By Rex Powell
UPDATE, PART 3: Bank of America has now joined Chase and GMAC, suspending foreclosure evictions due to affidavit issues. UPDATE, PART 2: JPMorgan Chase has now suspended 56,000+ foreclosure actions ...
Continue reading "Fraudulent Foreclosures in Florida: Approaching Critical Mass?" »
Posted on Aug 6, 2010 By Rex Powell
Recently, while preparing for a hearing, I discovered documents prepared in anticipation of the litigation which were clearly and blatantly forged (these three documents can be viewed here , here , ...
Continue reading "Banks and Lawyers are Committing Fraud in Florida Courts" »
Posted on Jul 20, 2010 By Rex Powell
The HAMP loan modification program is a federally designed program which aims to provide loan modifications to homeowners who are having difficulty paying their mortgage. The servicers participating ...
Continue reading "The HAMP Paper Chase" »
Posted on Jul 15, 2010 By Rex Powell
In the last few months, I have seen several clients who have fallen victim to a very unfortunate and ostensibly deceptive practice in the banking industry. This practice, known as a “right of setoff”, ...
Continue reading "The "Right of Setoff"" »
Posted on Jul 12, 2010 By Rex Powell
Mediation is an alternative dispute resolution mechanism that has become very popular with court systems throughout the United States, including our own circuits here in Florida. As a general rule, ...
Continue reading "What is Mediation?" »
Posted on Jul 8, 2010 By Rex Powell
During the last several years, many of our friends and neighbors here in Southwest Florida have found themselves falling on hard times. Unemployment rates have skyrocketed, real estate prices have ...
Continue reading "Debt Collectors" »
Posted on Jul 5, 2010 By Rex Powell
Losing your home to a foreclosure is every homeowner’s nightmare. Unfortunately, that nightmare has become an ever-present reality for many members of the Southwest Florida community. Lee County is ...
Continue reading "Foreclosures in Southwest Florida" »
Posted on Jul 2, 2010 By Consumer Rights Lawyer
Our attorneys are pleased to announce the launch of our Consumer Rights blog with an RSS feed available at ...../Recent-Blog-Posts/RSS.xml
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