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PropertyProf Blog
Foreclosure & Homeowners’ Associations
By propertyprof
The LA Times has a blog post discussing the stress that the foreclosure mess has put on homeowners' associations:If you live in a homeowners association – condo or single-family –…
Land Use Prof Blog
Mixon on Home Mortgage Documents Interpreted as Nonrecourse Debt
John Mixon (Houston) has posted Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac Home Mortgage Documents Interpreted as Nonrecourse Debt (with Poetic Comments Lifted from Carl Sandburg), from the California Western Law Revew. The abstract:Virtually…
Land Use Prof Blog
WSJ Number of the Week: 492
The Wall Street Journal's Economics Blog, in a post by Mark Whitehouse, has as its "number of the week" the number 492, as in the average of 492 Days from Default to…
PropertyProf Blog
Foreclosure, and Planting the Seeds of a Future Crisis
By propertyprof
To get a sense of how badly the legal system has responded to the foreclosure crisis, consider this: we are three years into it, hundreds of thousands have lost their…
The D&O Diary
Foreclosure Fiasco Fallout Now Also Includes Securities Suit
The foreclosure paperwork and processing mess has been unfolding on the front pages of the nation’s news papers for several weeks now. While the situation has created a lot of uncertainty,…
PropertyProf Blog
Summary of State Foreclosure Laws
By propertyprof
My colleague Juliet Moringiello pointed me to the National Consumer Law Center's handy summary of state foreclosure laws. Lost of useful stuff in there.Ben Barros[Comments are held for approval, so…
Land Use Prof Blog
Johnson on En Masse Evictions Caused by Subprime Crisis
Creola Johnson has published Renters evicted en masse: collateral damage arising from the subprime foreclosure crisis in the Florida Law Review (62 Fla. L. Rev. 975 (2010), in case the…
Land Use Prof Blog
Miller on the Strategic Default Debate Among Contract Scholars
Meredith R. Miller (Touro) has posted Strategic Default: The Popularization of a Debate Among Contract Scholars, forthcoming in the Cornell Real Estate Law Journal. The abstract:A June 2010 report estimates…
PropertyProf Blog
“Sleeper” House sold at foreclosure auction
By propertyprof
Thanks to Tom Roberts (until recently of Wake Forest) for the following:Property teachers who are movie buffs may want to use the sale of Woody Allen’s “Sleepers” house as an…
PropertyProf Blog
Adverse Possession — A Unique Solution to the Foreclosure Crisis?
By propertyprof
The NY Times has a piece today on Mark Guerette, an enterprising person in Florida who sought out homes in working-class neighborhoods that were apparently abandoned by the banks. He…