Real Estate Market Starting to Weaken

News outlets are starting to report that real estate values may be beginning to drop.  ” ‘Anything goes’ list-price strategy no longer working,” says a headline in CNBC news.
Sales of all homes — new and existing — fell in June to the lowest level since last year.  Mortgage applications have fallen, and so has construction of single family homes.
Whereas sellers were seeing ten to fifteen offers at the beginning of this year, that number is dropping to about half of that, realtors say.

Discharge vs Automatic Stay and Credit Reporting

The Fair Credit Reporting Act “FCRA” and the Bankruptcy Code
The Automatic Stay v. the Bankruptcy Discharge

Tenants Facing Foreclosure Protected by New Federal Law

Most Tenants Facing Foreclosure Now Have Some Protection, at Least for 90 Days
tenants and foreclosure

Chapter 7 Is the Most Common Kind of Bankruptcy in Tacoma

Consumers file significantly more Chapter 7 bankruptcy cases than Chapter 13 ones. In 2016, out of almost 800,000 bankruptcies, about 490,000 were Chapter 7s and almost 300,000 were Chapter 13s. (The rest were almost all Chapter 11s and 12s, plus a few Chapter 9s and 15s.)
A Simple Chapter 7
In a simple Chapter 7 case, you would:

Navient’s Latest Student Loan Scam

California Attorney General files a lawsuit against Navient and subsidiaries, Pioneer and General Revenue Corp., alleging violation of California’s unfair competition and false advertising laws
Misrepresenting the order in which the company would apply extra loan payments and failing to properly discharge federal student debt for borrowers with a total and permanent disability.

Navient’s Latest Student Loan Scam

California Attorney General files a lawsuit against Navient and subsidiaries, Pioneer and General Revenue Corp., alleging violation of California’s unfair competition and false advertising laws
Misrepresenting the order in which the company would apply extra loan payments and failing to properly discharge federal student debt for borrowers with a total and permanent disability.

National Credit Adjusters, LLC (NCA) & Hochstein Guilty of Consumer Fraud

National Credit Adjusters, LLC and Bradley Hochstein admit to illegal consumer debt collection practices.
Company and Its Former CEO Engaged In Illegal Debt Collection Practices

National Credit Adjusters, LLC (NCA) & Hochstein Guilty of Consumer Fraud

National Credit Adjusters, LLC and Bradley Hochstein admit to illegal consumer debt collection practices.
Company and Its Former CEO Engaged In Illegal Debt Collection Practices

Another Family Wastes Thousands with Freedom Debt Relief

Another Fairfax County Family Wastes Thousands with Freedom Debt Relief. I filed a bankruptcy case this week for Alexander and Alina yesterday.   They had been enrolled with Freedom Debt Relief for over five years–the longest enrollment I ever heard of. And according to Freedom Debt Relief, they had only four monthly payments to go […]

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