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Our client, T. E. took out a note and mortgage with World Savings Bank, FSB on January 30, 2007. The note had a 7.0% adjustable interest rate, which would adjust every 2 weeks, based upon the “GDW” Index. The note and mortgage were industry-standard documents, however, the mortgage made a…

Mailing notices to the defendant. I’ve spoken about this issue in the past, but I feel compelled to discuss it again because of how critical it is for homeowners. Many standard mortgages contain language that dictates the obligations of each party when it comes to sending mail back and forth….

The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit held that a consumer can partially revoke consent under the TCPA. In Schweitzer v. Comenity Bank, No. 16-10498 (11th Cir. 2017), the plaintiff provided consent to call her cellular telephone number when she applied for a credit card with the defendant. After…

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Facing Foreclosure? Mortgage Reinstatement Could Help Florida homeowners who have fallen behind on their regular mortgage payments have legal options available to them for avoiding foreclosure. The quickest way for you to recover legally and financially when you’ve missed too many mortgage payments is to obtain a mortgage reinstatement from…

Henry came to Loan Lawyers because he was receiving numerous auto-dialed and/or pre-recorded message phone calls on his cell phone from a debt collector trying to collect a debt that Henry disputed he owed. The phone calls were causing a major disruption in his everyday life, affecting his ability to…

With over $1 trillion dollars of outstanding debt for car loans in the United States everyone is talking about the next big bubble, and no doubt it’s connected to subprime automobile loans. While the damage won’t equal the impact the subprime mortgage crisis had on the economy in 2009, in…

An interesting bill was recently proposed by representative Mia Love from Utah amending the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (“FDCPA”) and making several pro-consumer changes. The bill was only recently introduced and is probably in part a response to the recent Supreme Court decision of Henson v. Santander which ruled…

I recently had the pleasure of defending one of our clients in a foreclosure action up in Palm Beach. Thankfully, we were able to have the case dismissed due to the Bank’s failure to prove that they could enforce the Note and I wanted to spend some time today discussing…