B&L on Channel 8 Desert Underwater: Foreclosure Bomb Hits Nevada
When the housing bubble burst, no community in America was harder hit than the Las Vegas valley. The foreclosure crisis became an unemployment crisis and the ripple effects are still expanding outward. How did it get this bad? And how have local residents tried to dig themselves out? The series will continue all this week […]
Tisha Black Chernine on Channel 8: Desert Underwater
Watch Tisha Black Chernine, Esq., Managing Partner of Black & LoBello on the Channel 8 week-long special titled, “Desert Underwater” at 5 PM and 11 PM. Las Vegas, used to decades of continuous building and growth, is now in the middle of an unprecedented housing crisis. With unemployment over 13 percent and thousands of homes […]
Black & LoBello On the Radio
Click here to listen to the Legal Hour on KDWN AM720 from November 2nd, 2011 in which Managing Partner, Tisha Black Chernine, Esq., discusses buying foreclosed homes, different types of deeds, notice of default, Assembly Bill 284, how to spot and clean up problems with a property title and Supreme Court cases that affect foreclosures. Please tune in to […]
WSJ Talks to Tisha Black Chernine About AB 284
Foreclosure filings in Nevada plunged in October during the first month of a new state law stiffening foreclosure-processing requirements. Slightly more than 600 default notices were filed against homeowners through Oct. 25 in the state’s two most-populous counties, Las Vegas’s Clark County and Reno’s Washoe County. That was down from 5,360 in September, or an […]
Most People Don’t Understand Buying a Home
A recent Zillow survey revealed that over 42 percent of home buyers think that home values will rise by around 7 percent every year. However, this notion does not relate to the actual market and would be considered high even during pre-crisis times. In fact, home values normally rise between 2 to 5 percent. While this […]
President Obama Announces Improvements to HARP
The Obama Administration, by way of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), announced a major upgrade to the Making Homes Affordable Refinance Program (HARP). This program is designed to help homeowners who owe more on their mortgage than the home is worth, so-called “underwater” mortgages. Homeowners of underwater homes cannot refinance their loans because lenders […]
President Obama Announces New Plan to Help Struggling Homeowners
On October 24th, 2011 President Obama announced a new plan to help homeowners who owe more on their mortgage than their house is worth. The President announced his plan while visiting us here in Las Vegas, which is the “most fun city in the world” and “foreclosure capital” of the world at the same time. […]
Black & LoBello on the Radio
Click here to listen to the Legal Hour on KDWN AM720 from October 19th, 2011 in which Managing Partner, Tisha Black Chernine, Esq., discusses chain of title problems, how to stop a foreclosure, 1099 tax forms, how AB 273 helps short sellers against creditors, renting a pre short sell property and issues with notary fraud. Please tune in to […]
Black & LoBello on the Radio
Click here to listen to the Legal Hour on KDWN AM720 from October 12th, 2011 in which Managing Partner, Tisha Black Chernine, Esq., discusses how to deal with banks on the phone, loan modification, the fears associated with deficiency judgment, the purpose of mortgage insurance, construction defect issues on a short sale, landlords and underwater rental properties. Please tune […]
Black & LoBello on the Radio
Click here to listen to the Legal Hour on KDWN AM720 from October 5th, 2011 in which Managing Partner, Tisha Black Chernine, Esq., hosts special guest, Mark Baker from Sierra Pacific Mortgage. Ms Black Chernine and Mr. Baker discuss the FHA Short Refinance Program, mortgage insurance increases, Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSE), settling a second mortgage, refinancing a mortgage to […]