Wayne County is the nation's leader in tax foreclosures, with more than 150,000 in the past 15 years. Despite reforms and outreach efforts, more than 100 people lost their homes last year for debts of $ 1,000 or less.
Hundreds of thousands of Puerto Ricans are facing the loss of their homes upon the expiration of a three-month moratorium on mortgage payments that banks offered after Hurricane Maria devastated the island. Lenders are starting to demand payment from Puerto Ricans still struggling to make ends meet amid continuing power outages and a post-storm economic…
Leonidas Papadopoulos is a doctor, his brother Ilias an economist, and once a week they take a break from ordinary life to fight the government. They go to court every Wednesday, the day homeowners in default on mortgages lose their properties at auctions – the final step of foreclosure in a country where the government…
A local man has been bound over for trial on charges connected to an alleged mortgage foreclosure scam, through which he stole thousands of dollars from Michigan residents. 54-year-old Lawrence Adell Sefa is charged with 15 felonies, including conducting a criminal enterprise and false pretenses, and 15 counts of Credit Services Protection Act violations, which…
Is there anyone this side of a Supreme Court Justice who hasn't signed off on a document without reading or understanding every single word and Latin phrase? When it comes to buying a house, it pays to know the phrase “lis pendens”. A lis pendens is the Latin term for a Notice of Pendency of…
A Hilton Head Island restaurant that opened in June 2017 is being sued for foreclosure for over $ 2 million, according to Beaufort County Court records . Darren Clarke's Tavern – located at 8 Executive Park Road – is the subject of a lawsuit filed Sept. Foreclosure News
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