Finance & Law for Not-So-Dummies

Should Banks be making mortgage loans? We take the answer for granted . Yet, I have been involved in an on-line discussion that started ab...

Hooray! We have a Mortgage Settlement - $26B worth but who gets help and where does the rest of the money go? NO ONE KNOWS yet, and no one k...

My mortgage modification clients often ask about the class actions or Attorney Generals actions against mortgage companies, lenders, and ser...

Now that the economy is no longer an issue, we have to turn to a new topic- "The Economy" , but a different sense of the economy -...

The other day, I responded to a comment on Twitter from a knowledgeable mortgage financing friend regarding the current housing situation vi...

There used to be a TV show, weekly, called appropriately "THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS". It provided a satirical review of the week...

RealtyTrac, the company that tracks foreclosures (state by state) and gives national figures, reports that foreclosures, meaning homeowners ...

The Wall Street Journal in its February 5-6, 2011 edition had an article by David Benoit, entitled "BofA Sets Mortgage Cleanup Unit...

There were two "complimentary" articles yesterday - one in American Banker, entitled " MBS Trustees Push JPMorgan Chase for ...

Rep Randy Neugebauer, Chairman, House Financial Services Oversight Subcommittee, said it is time for the government to admit its foreclosure...

The latest news and business reports say that "the economy is improving. All economic indicators show..." If that is true, and not...

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

This posting's title, with apologies to Carly Simon who wrote and sung Billboard's 72nd most popular song ever, is appropriate if an...

All of the news of late has been about the so-called "robo-signers" at mortgage companies dealing in 23 "judicial foreclosur...

Reverse Mortgage - a mortgage that goes backwards? In a real sense YES! Instead of building equity by paying back what you owe, a lender d...

You are a tenant in a multi-family or single family house that has just gone through foreclosure. Can you be just "kicked-out" by...

As a solo practitioner I must acknowledge my work limitations; I cannot compete against the Boston or other big-city law firms employing 20 ...

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