April is National Financial Literacy Month…do you know where your money is? Maybe some of it went to the IRS, but not everybody is fortunate enough to pay taxes. For those with overwhelming debt, financial literacy may be a novel…
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Branching Out to New Economic Growth
Tagged with: consumer rights, credit, debt, financial literacy, financially illiteracy, foreclosure, Foreclosure Defense, money, small claims, small claims court
Posted in Consumer Debt Defense, Foreclosure Defense
Posted in Consumer Debt Defense, Foreclosure Defense
Talking to Chuck’s Daughter
“Talk to Chuck,” the ad slogan of Charles Schwab is moving to the next generation. Chuck’s daughter, Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz, is a certified financial planner and president of the Charles Schwab Foundation…and she co-authored a book with her daddy titled, “It…
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Tagged with: Charles Schwab, financial literacy, financially illiteracy, foreclosure, Foreclosure Defense, money
Posted in Foreclosure Defense
Posted in Foreclosure Defense
The Gingerbread Foreclosure & the Credit Score
Once there was a little old man and a little old woman. They lived in a little old house that was completely upside down in negative equity. One day the little old woman was going through the late notices from…
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Tagged with: credit, credit score, debt, foreclosure, Foreclosure Defense, gingerbread, lender
Posted in Foreclosure Defense
Posted in Foreclosure Defense
Smart Move in Home Foreclosure
Are you smarter than a cardboard box? Can you think your way out of a paper stack? If you have a pile of foreclosure paperwork, the smartest answer may be to ask an attorney for some advice. Nobody wants to…
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Tagged with: foreclosure, Foreclosure Defense, home foreclosure, mortgage, mortgage payments
Posted in Foreclosure Defense
Posted in Foreclosure Defense
Legal Differences
What is the difference between ‘parole’ and ‘probation’? Between ‘civil’ and ‘criminal’? Between ‘plaintiff’ and ‘defendant’? Sometimes differences bring us together…in court. Attorneys remove the emotion so their clients can take the necessary steps to move through a legal problem. …
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Tagged with: civil case, civil trial, criminal case, criminal trial, defendant, parole, plaintiff, probation, prosecution
Posted in Consumer Law, Criminal Defense, Foreclosure Defense
Posted in Consumer Law, Criminal Defense, Foreclosure Defense
NOT Government Secrets
These are not government secrets. The following are a handful of website links to consumer and homeowner information the government wants you to know from the national, state, and local levels. Sorry for the lack of mystery and intrigue. …
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Fast-Track Foreclosure in Jax
NASA has due process. They go through thousands of steps before they evict an astronaut from his home atmosphere. Home foreclosure is not rocket science, but each step provides an important checkpoint for homeowner rights. The Rocket Docket is back…
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Tagged with: due process, foreclosure, Foreclosure Defense, homeowner, homeowner rights, NASA, Rolling Stone
Posted in Foreclosure Defense
Posted in Foreclosure Defense
Foreclosure Dismissal – Did Not See It Coming
Generally you can see a foreclosure happening from a long way off. You have not made a payment in a while. You get phone calls and notices by mail from your lender. Then one day a man comes to your…
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Tagged with: dismissal without prejudice, foreclosure, Foreclosure Defense, foreclosure dismissal
Posted in Foreclosure Defense
Posted in Foreclosure Defense
Moving Parts
There are a lot of moving parts to a home foreclosure case—ten stages from the initial loan to the post-eviction, and that is just the legal procedure side. What is going on in your personal life adds a whole new…
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Tagged with: foreclosure, Foreclosure Defense, loss of income, medical hardship, unemployment
Posted in Foreclosure Defense
Posted in Foreclosure Defense
Relative Terms – “Worst” “Better” “Best”
Foreclosure Defense is about loss mitigation. You are not going to get a free house, but you can work towards a best case scenario, one which helps your credit recover as fast as possible. You do not “win” a foreclosure…
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Tagged with: best case scenario, foreclosure, Foreclosure Defense, loss mitigation
Posted in Foreclosure Defense
Posted in Foreclosure Defense