Appellate Division, Fourth Department Foreclosure Vacating Default County of Livingston v. Mort CA 12-01068 Appealed from Supreme Court, Livingston County Background: The petitioner appealed from an order granting the respondent’s motion to vacate a default judgment of foreclosure. The respondent ...

Tagged with: Appellate Division foreclosure Fourth Department

Representatives from Bank of America will be in Rochester for two days this week to meet with customers facing financial difficulties with their home loans. Bank of America customers seeking information or assistance with applying for a mortgage modification program ...

Tagged with: Bank of America foreclosure

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Ten major banks agreed Monday to pay $8.5 billion to settle federal complaints that they wrongfully foreclosed on homeowners who should have been allowed to stay in their homes. The banks, which include JPMorgan Chase, Bank of ...

Tagged with: Banks foreclosure homeowners

Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Rochester was awarded $46,000 as part of Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s Homeowner Protection Program in an effort to provide counseling services to those in danger of foreclosure. Earlier this year, New York, along with 48 ...

Tagged with: foreclosure grant

Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman on Monday announced the grantees of the Homeowner Protection Program, his office’s commitment of $60 million over three years to fund housing counseling and legal services for struggling New York homeowners. Some $20 million will ...

Tagged with: Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman foreclosure

LOS ANGELES — The evolution of the U.S. foreclosure crisis is increasingly diverging along state lines. On a national level, fewer homes were placed on the foreclosure track last month than in August last year, when they hit a 17-year ...

Tagged with: foreclosure

On Wednesday, a show cause hearing was scheduled to be heard in a foreclosure action by Wells Fargo and Freddie Mac against Rochester resident Leonard Spears before Monroe County Supreme Court Judge Elma A. Bellini. However, in the absence of ...

Tagged with: foreclosure

Members of area protest group Take Back the Land say there has been little progress in getting the City of Rochester to reexamine its foreclosure and eviction process. The latest case to draw the group’s ire is that of Eddie ...

Tagged with: foreclosure protesters

ALBANY — New York regulators say premiums for so-called “force-placed” insurance have more than tripled since 2004, producing enormous profits for insurers and the banks that take out policies when a homeowner fails to maintain coverage required by the mortgage. ...

Tagged with: foreclosure Insurance regulators

ALBANY — New York is expanding a national investigation and scheduled public hearings into so-called forced-placed insurance that add costs to homeowners seeking to avoid foreclosure. Banks and mortgage holders take out force-placed insurance when a homeowner misses a mortgage ...

Tagged with: foreclosure Insurance New York State

On Thursday, New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman’s office announced a $4 million settlement agreement with the nearly defunct Steven J. Baum PC law firm in Amherst and the firm’s processing center, Pillar Processing LLC. As part of the ...

Tagged with: Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman foreclosure settlement agreement

The ongoing foreclosure rescue scam crisis was highlighted this week during a press conference to identify top consumer complaints in New York. During this National Consumer Protection Week event, representatives offered guidance on avoiding financial scams, including loan modification scams. ...

Tagged with: crisis foreclosure