During the pandemic lockdown, an unprecedented number of borrowers suddenly entered into forbearance plans as state and local governments issued stay-at-home orders, shutting down economies and preventing many Americans from being able to go to work. As their income was reduced or even eliminated amid the layoffs and business closures that ensued, homeowners were unable to make their mortgage payments. But the federal government quickly mobilized in order to prevent the next housing crisis.

For many Americans, achieving the American Dream of homeownership is the be all, end all of goals in life. Outside of the basic need for shelter in which to function and raise a family, many also see homeownership as an investment that will financially secure their future. However, for today’s homebuyer, the doorway leading to the American Dream has become more elusive than ever, with many seeing the door slam shut in their face as affordability factors block the path for a whole new generation of potential buyers.

The White House blueprint for boosting affordable housing calls for reviving production of mobile homes, backyard flats and other manufactured units. 

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In 2020, social pushes for societal reform encouraged companies everywhere, including those engaged in the commercial real estate industry, to start diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs. DEI is vital to creating and maintaining a successful workplace.

Arizona recently published its Final Rule regarding electronic and remote online notarization. Among other matters, the Final Rule provides new requirements for journaling remote online notarizations by providing that each online notarial act may not be maintained in a paper journal, but must be maintained in a permanent tamper-evident electronic format.

Week Ending March 11, 2022

The fate of the mega-mansion at 777 Sarbonne in Bel Air is due to be considered by a bankruptcy court on May 25, as Judge Sheri Bluebond considers a motion to approve a $45.7 million deal for the more than one-acre estate with extravagant amenities that range from a Feng Shui koi pond to a gallery for NFTs

Soon after Jim Medeiros bought his 143-acre (58-hectare) cattle and poultry farm in rural Virginia a decade ago, he and his wife were startled by the sounds of 20 hunting dogs barking and howling as they circled their house and chased their chickens.

Two parcels of undeveloped land are divided by a fence. The fence is located inside the boundary line of one owner’s property which is known to the owner. The owner does not communicate their knowledge to the neighbor that the fence is not on the boundary. The neighbor develops a farm on their property and levels a hillside up to the location of the fence. The owner is aware of the construction but waits until after excavation and continuous exclusive use by the neighbor to inform the neighbor they are trespassing and sues to restore the leveled hillside back to its original condition.

The Illinois Court of Appeals recently found that Fannie Mae’s COVID-related instruction for servicers to suspend foreclosure-related activities beginning in March 2020 was not grounds to vacate a February 2020 foreclosure judgment or a November 2020 foreclosure sale.

The North Carolina Court of Appeals recently published an opinion in Bryan v. Kittinger that has the potential to impact how community associations, such as HOAs, can amend restrictive covenants. The Court also ruled on the types of animals that can be considered “household pets.”

On the eve of West Vancouver presenting a proposal to seek out and strike discriminatory and racist land title covenants, there may be a high-tech solution for rooting out the historical relics.

In the second of a two-part series, we will examine how US firms can stay proactive in their risk and compliance obligations amid the increasing interplay between cybercrime and strategic corruption.

Much of the Trans Mountain pipeline’s route lies within the territory of the Secwepemc Nation, which has never relinquished its land to the Canadian government by treaty, land sale, or surrender.

In 1954, the three Kuforiji brothers, namely: S.A. Kuforiji, H.F. Kuforiji and H.C.O. Kuforiji, jointly and as joint owners executed a lease (“Exhibit B”). Upon valuable consideration, they demised the land to the Foreign Mission Board of Southern Baptist Convention (“The Baptist Mission”). Sometime in 1973, the unexpired terms of the said leasehold were sold to Late Rev. (Dr.) J.T. Ayorinde (“the Appellant’s Uncle”) by Chief Daniel Johnson Kuforiji and Chief Simeon Olujimi Kuforiji (a son to S.A. Kuforiji now deceased) for themselves and on behalf of the Kuforiji family through a Deed of Conveyance (“Exhibit D”).

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He bought the 17-acre piece. Almost 14 years, multiple land purchases and tons of scooped-up soil later, the dune has turned into a huge hole in the ground, 40 feet deep and brimming with water. Joyner dumped in $900 worth of minnows a few years back, and recently a kid caught a 10-pound bass where there used to be nothing but dirt.

It’s back. The fabled Maryland Party – where real estate moguls hobnob with public officials far from home – will return on Monday, May 23, at the Wynn Las Vegas after a two-year hiatus caused by the pandemic.

For agents interested in growing their business by expanding into multiple states, we’re here to make the process simple and profitable. We offer you one point of contact to streamline your options and solutions.

Under the Blue Mountains of Oregon lurks the largest recorded organism on Earth, weighing more than 200 blue whales and dwarfing even Pando, Utah’s famous grove of quaking aspens. 

I’m so excited to be able to relay to you this incredible bit of circa-1916 breaking news, because it has so much good, deeply weird stuff crammed into it: taillights, a riot that was maybe more of a big comical parade of hundreds of people (even though the significant property damage was real), and a description of a viral story in 1916 terms.

From futuristic test kitchens to Under-the-Sea Salad, midcentury Jell-O took a turn for the weird.

A little over a year ago, the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust and its allies began a new campaign to let more Bay Area foundations know about a little-known way of supporting the organization: the Shuumi Land Tax..

Dorothy Gilman had her reasons for fleeing the United States in the mid-1970s: she had endured the years of the Vietnam War and raging inflation; her last son was about to depart for college, leaving her with an “unemployed heart”; the American author had grown weary of “always being in a hurry and never having time for anything” and of being a single woman in the U.S. suburbs, which seemed to her “a slow death of the spirit.”

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