by Ron Kaniuk on December 15, 2011
I read another Attorney Discipline Report today. The attorney’s name isn’t important (and while the Attorney Discipline Report is a matter of public record, telling you his name wouldn’t do anything except further embarrass and humiliate him), but his story is. This particular lawyer was first disciplined in 2010, and after the disciplinary order was […]
by Mike on March 11, 2010
Your mortgage is a thick, dense, practically unreadable document that dictates many of the terms of the relationship between the borrower and the lender on a typical home loan. The document itself is written by the bank’s lawyers, and most of them tend to use specific language that has been tried-and-true in other deals. In […]
by Mike on November 3, 2009
Deed in Lieu of Foreclosure: Giving up the keys Just want to hand in the keys and walk away from your upside-down loan? Many of our clients – often facing impossible monthly payments or gut-wrenching shortfalls on their loan-to-value ratios – just want to turn in the keys and walk away from their loans. “What […]