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		<title>Builder moves on to a new enterprise</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:19:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mercedes Homes LLC, for nearly 30 years one of Brevard County’s most prominent home builders, is ending operations two years after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. An outside executive management team brought in by the consortium of leading creditors from the bankruptcy case recently took over operations of the Suntree-headquartered company and announced its intentions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inheritance poses investment possibilities and puzzles</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:16:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When his father died last summer, editor and tax preparer Danny Marcus found himself faced with an unexpected problem: figuring out what to do with his inheritance. Marcus, 60, was both thrilled and overwhelmed by the possibilities. Should he pay off the mortgage? Buy a condo in Florida? Save more for his retirement? And if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Law exempts forgiven foreclosure debt from income on tax return</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 05:38:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several years ago, we were talked into getting what I believe was a predatory loan &#8211; a negatively amortizing mortgage for 100 percent of the purchase price of our home. The loan broker assured us we could refinance the following year to a more traditional mortgage. We paid the minimum monthly payment required, which didn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Florida justice shuts down foreclosure mediation program</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 03:39:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Florida Supreme Court Chief Justice Charles Canady shut down the state&#8217;s 2-year-old foreclosure mediation program Monday, after low success rates and criticism from both lenders and borrowers deemed the program unsustainable. The court system, which has faced a torrent of foreclosure cases in the past several years, has seen its budgets cut and staff reduced. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ask a real estate pro: How to write a short sale hardship letter</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 04:38:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Board-certified real estate attorney Gary M. Singer answers housing questions in this space each Friday. To ask him a question about short sales, mortgages, refinancing, homeowner&#8217;s associations or any other residential real estate topic, click here. Q: I am trying to complete a short sale. My lender requested a hardship letter, but I don’t know [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ask a real estate pro: Short sale or bankruptcy? &#8211; South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2011 01:33:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Board-certified real estate attorney Gary M. Singer answers housing questions in this space each Friday. Q: I am elderly and got involved with a rental property with the help of a family member. Now the family member is nowhere in sight, the tenant left and the mortgage is underwater. I don’t have the energy or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Council may study condo law that prevents owners from splitting joined units</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 17:50:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Palm Beach, property owners who own more than one adjacent condominium can combine them into a single home but, once done, they are prohibited by the town from splitting them back into the original number of units unless they can meet parking and density requirements. The law is consistent with the town comprehensive plan’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stressed condos find help</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 00:28:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Osprey Cove, a condominium in Estero, was dealing with a wave of foreclosures that cut off maintenance fees from many of its units. The community&#8217;s property manager, Hayden &#38; Associates, had to deal with &#8220;huge delinquencies&#8221; and traditional ways of dealing with them weren&#8217;t promising, Ken Hayden said. &#8220;You throw them in the collections meat [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grandmother nearly loses condo to foreclosure after $4.70 fee balloons to nearly $3,000 &#124; FLORIDA TODAY &#124; floridatoday.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 00:09:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For Geeta Ramcharitar, the ordeal began with a past due balance of $4.70 owed to her condominium association in Melbourne’s Venetian Village — and ballooned from there. The threatened end: foreclosure on her two-bedroom condo. The 56-year-old grandmother got lucky. County Court Judge William McLuan tossed out the foreclosure case brought by her condo association, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fannie Mae ignored robo-signing abuses in Florida foreclosures, investigation finds</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 20:19:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Federal mortgage giant Fannie Mae was told in 2006 about faulty court documents filed by Florida foreclosure attorneys acting on its behalf but did nothing to correct the practices, an inspector general found. A report issued Friday by the Federal Housing Finance Agency Office of Inspector General said an outside law firm Fannie Mae hired [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Innkeepers Wins Approval to Extend Control of Bankruptcy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 01:09:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Innkeepers USA Trust won approval to extend control over its bankruptcy amid a dispute with Cerberus Capital Management LP and Chatham Lodging Trust over whether they will buy 64 of its hotels. The new deadline to file a Chapter 11 plan will be Nov. 10 once a formal order is submitted, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Shelley [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Many survive foreclosure in style</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 06:20:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Homeowners in foreclosure are increasingly plotting a graceful landing that leaves them not in dire straits following an eviction, but with the same or even better living standards than before they defaulted. A study released this summer by a Federal Reserve Board discussion group found that homeowners post-foreclosure are bucking conventional wisdom that dictates they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reverse mortgage turns sour for heir</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 03:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like thousands of local homeowners in their golden years, Rosemary Chandler took out a reverse mortgage in 2005 to help pay her expenses and remain in the Elk Grove home that&#8217;s been in her family since the 1940s. The decision worked out fine during her lifetime. But since her death in January 2010, it has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Community Law: Owners must OK staggered terms for condo board</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 08:17:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Q: If a 1985 amendment to our condominium bylaws provides for staggered terms, but our association did not hold a vote to affirm staggered terms in 2008 or any subsequent year, is our association in violation of the law if we still use staggered terms? A: Yes. Section 718.112(2)(d)1 of the Florida Condominium Act was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Community Law: Owners must OK staggered terms for condo board</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 08:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Q: If a 1985 amendment to our condominium bylaws provides for staggered terms, but our association did not hold a vote to affirm staggered terms in 2008 or any subsequent year, is our association in violation of the law if we still use staggered terms? A: Yes. Section 718.112(2)(d)1 of the Florida Condominium Act was [...]]]></description>
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