Mortgage Insurers to Allow Short Sales, Deeds-in-Lieu Without Approval

Starting November 1, 2012, if you loan is serviced by Fannie Mac or Freddie Mac, you will not have to receive approval from the mortgager insurer to proceed with a short sale.  Typically, if a homeowner purchases a home and their down payment is less than 20% of the fair market value of the property, the […]

Black & LoBello On the Radio

Click here to listen to the Legal Hour on KDWN AM720 from November 9th, 2011 in which Managing Partner, Tisha Black Chernine, Esq., discusses her Wall Street Journal interview dealing with robo-signing, how a deed-in-lieu works, tax benefits for renting a property at a loss, buying a foreclosed home at auction, out of state short sales and problems with Home […]

AB 273 Limits Bank Collections

The purchase of a house is the largest purchase most people will ever make.  When hard times hit and a homeowner loses their house, the debt the homeowner still owes to the bank is the largest debt a person will ever have.  After suffering a pay cut or the loss of a job and with […]

New Nevada Real Estate Laws Update

Black & LoBello has received numerous inquiries regarding the new real estate laws discussed in our previous blog post.  We thank you for your patronage of our blog and for your interest in these exciting new protections for homeowners.  Several inquiries have asked for clarification regarding the manner in which the new laws regarding holders […]

New Nevada Laws Relating to Homeowners

Nevada Assembly Bill 273 makes major improvements to Nevada law to protect homeowners by limiting the amount of money a bank can collect after a homeowner loses their home.  The law also reduces the time a bank has to file a lawsuit against some homeowners.   These protections will greatly improve a homeowner’s opportunity to start […]

Report Indicates Nevadans are “Walking Away” From Distressed Properties

The Nevada Association of Realtors (hereinafter “NVAR”) recently released a report entitled “Face of Foreclosure.”  This report paints a rather grim picture.  It reports that more than 20% of Nevada homeowners have strategically defaulted and allowed a foreclosure to occur rather than pursuing other alternatives. The NVAR report explored the reason that people went to […]

Foreclosure Outlook 2011

The outlook for the New Year is grim if you own a home in Las Vegas and are not paying attention to your legal rights. Likely, you are one of the two-thirds of our valley’s property owners who are in an underwater position, most being more than 50%. Since property values are expected to drop […]

Default Servicers, Foreclosure and the Securitization Debacle

On November 16, 2010, the Senate Committee on Banking Housing and Urban Affairs held a hearing on Mortgage Services and Foreclosure Practices which included, Bank of America, among other lending institutions, along with consumer advocates and academics. Coincidentally, the Congressional Oversight Panel has recently produced a 127-page report, “Examining the Consequences of Mortgage Irregularities for Financial […]