Mortgage foreclosure -- Standing

Stone v. Bankunited, 2013 Fla. App. LEXIS 7207

Mortgage foreclosure -- Standing -- Plaintiff had standing to foreclose mortgage where initial lender had been placed in receivership by FDIC, and plaintiff acquired all assets of initial lender by virtue of the receivership and pursuant to a purchase assumption agreement.

Check Your Credit Report After Bankruptcy

A Creditor May Continue to Report a Debt

The most common way in which credit reporting errors are discovered is at the most importune time, a new credit application rejection. Old debt discharged in bankruptcy may still be reported as delinquent when the debts should have been removed or a settled debt is still listed as owed to the creditor.

The Inaccurate Reporting Maybe the Result of Credit Reporting Agency Negligence
While the Fair Credit Reporting Act was designed to protect consumers from faulty credit reporting there are often allegations of negligence against the three main credit-reporting agencies. You will need to send demand letters to each agency to clear up the errors.  If they refuse a suit may be necessary.

The Bottom Line, Check your Credit Report After Bankruptcy or Debt Settlement
Do not wait until you hear from a lender that there is a problem with your credit report. While experienced counsel can resolve these issues, the time for resolution may be outside the time constraints of a real estate purchase or new car loan application.

Home prices are rising at the fastest rate in seven years, as buyers are returning to a market where the number of properties for sale is in short supply, the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday. Prices increased 9.3 percent in February from a year earlier while mortgage-interest rates hovered at near record lows in 20 major metropolitan areas.

Interest Rates Fall

Mortgage rates continued to creep down near record lows this week, according to reports from Freddie Mac and Bankrate.com. Rates fell all around in Freddie Mac's Primary Mortgage Market Survey for the week ending May 2. According to the weekly survey, the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage (FRM) averaged 3.35 percent (0.7 point) this week, down from 3.40 percent last week. The all-time low average is 3.31 percent, set the week of November 21, 2012. For the second week in a row, the 15-year FRM reached a new low, falling to 2.56 percent (0.7 point).

Bank Pay Day Loans

The banking version of payday lending, called deposit advance, is no better than its storefront cousin. For starters, the advance loan can carry an interest rate of over 300 percent. There is no fixed due date for repayment. Instead, the bank repays itself from an electronic deposit into the borrower’s account. A new study from by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau says these transactions are anything but harmless, one-time deals. Three-fourths of the loan fees are generated by consumers who borrow more than 10 times in a 12-month period. Overdraft fees deplete the borrowers’ meager resources, causing them to borrow again and again — and pushing them deeper into the debt trap.