Finance & Law for Not-So-Dummies

Whether CA and NY join is anticlimactic. The quibbling over the amount of the settlement was foolish. $17B or $25B has never been the issue....

In his article, in the Tuesday November 15 th edition of the New York Times, about foreclosures, David Streitfield discloses the Banking/M...

The new Neighborhood Stabilization Act, which was enacted with an Emergency Preamble, became effective, in part, upon signing by Governor Du...

There has been movement in some state courts to shore-up the failure of the legislation enacting the Making Home Affordable program initiat...

Has anybody stopped to look at real people , and not just to discuss economic theory. The theory states that a "recession occurs when ...

"Making Home Affordable", Loan Modifications, Loss Mitigation, " HAMP ", "HARP" "HASP" - all are pro...

The answer to the title question is a qualified MAYBE! (Obfuscate: to muddy the waters so no one has a clue about the real answer or even th...

"How Many Clients Does It Take To Change A Light Bulb ?" is the name of a small but funny (to a lawyer anyway) book by a fellow at...

The Obama administration's Making Home Affordable program, you know the one to stop foreclosures on millions of homes, is missing the ma...

Mortgage Modification, as stated in earlier posts, can mean anything from allowing a late payment without a fee attached to it, or reducing ...

As a follow-up to the last post, several important matters: 1. If you have submitted the application for a loan modification under the ...