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Once a year I try to review new state laws that may impact real estate transactions. Before I could get to this task, the Florida Land Title Association sent out several bulletins describing important law changes, doing my job for me! I will summarize a few of these laws, here, but you really need to see [...] Everyone knows that the fraud industry never seems to crash, it just morphs into different appearances. The traditional mortgage fraud, with loan applications containing false employment, income, and other information, and the artificially inflated appraisals fraud, were going strong for several years. Now that lenders are more cautious, and many potential buyers have poor credit, the latest fraud is on the individual. Not only [...] PLEASE stop! Stop talking about people being underwater, upside down, or whatever cute word is used when homes are worth less than their mortgage debts. So what?? Live in your home and pay your mortgage. Who cares how much your house is worth? In fact, I prefer my home to be worth zero dollars while I live here, [...] While researching real property bills filed by the Florida legislature this year, one of the bills the computer found was titled Pain Management! HAH! Was this the legislature being sympathetic to real estate folks? Or was it meant for everyone who is dealing with the new HUD-1 form? Too bad it didn’t pass. You [...] |
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