Real Estate & Property Law

Crazed Florida Water Cops Charge Man With Feeding Dolphins, Don’t Charge Others Who Were Doing The Same Thing From Same Boat - Our Tax Dollars At Work
BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA — A captain of a Merritt Island pontoon boat tour got a $321 ticket for allegedly feeding a dolphin in the Banana River. Officers cited Donald Quinn, 51, of Brevard County, captain of the vessel, Fish Tales, at about 1 p...

Borrowers Hitting Refinance Snag
The Journal had an overview piece today regarding "new" difficulty that borrowers are facing when trying to refinance a primary mortgage if there's a second or home equity line also on the property...

Marsha Courchane Paper on Explaining the Pricing of Home Mortgage Loans to Minority Borrowers
Marsha Courchane's paper The Pricing of Home Mortgage Loans to Minority Borrowers: How Much of the APR Differential Can We Explain? can be found in 29 Journal of Real Estate Research No...

Report finds delinquent borrowers not receiving help to prevent foreclosure
Seven out of 10 borrowers who were seriously delinquent on their home loans in October were not receiving help to prevent the possibility of foreclosure, according to a report published Thursday the State Foreclosure Prevention Working Group...

Federal Agents Armed Raid On Innocent Couple’s Home In Opa-Locka Florida Turns Up Nothing - After Attacking Man, Thugs With Badges Searched Underwear Drawers For Microscopic Hydroponic Grow Lab
OPA-LOCKA, FLORIDA - Federal agents on the hunt for criminals on Thursday raided the wrong house while searching for drugs. Police and federal agents raided 50 marijuana grow houses around Florida on Thursday, calling it “Operation D-Day...

Texas Supreme Court Limits Penalties for Invalid Home Equity Loan
Texas has a long tradition of protecting its homesteads. Texas was the last state in the nation to allow home equity lending. When it did, the loans came with a host of technical requirements and draconian penalties for failing to meet those requirements...

House Closing
Sealing a home sale

Selection of State Supreme Court Judges
How State Court Judges are Selected

Pre-paid Leagal Services
What are Prepaid Legal Benefit Plans

Recovery Claim
Florida Insurance Guarantee Association agrees to pay $14 million settlement to Home Solutions of America for construction services.

KB Home and Countrywide Financial Corp.
allegedly conspired with appraisers to boost housing prices as the market crashed.

Reddy Ice Holdings Inc., Arctic Glacier International Inc., and Home City Ice Co.
allegedly violated federal antitrust laws by fixing prices for packaged cubed, crushed, block, and dry ice in the US and Canada.

Countrywide Financial Corp.
allegedly charged borrowers improper foreclosure fees.

Texas' KB Home Hit with Price Fixing Class Action
Texas' KB Home Faces Price Fixing Class-Action

KB Home Faces Price Fixing Class Action
KB Home Faces Price Fixing Class Action