The borrowers in U.S. Bank Nat’l Assn. v. Miller, 2020 IL App (1st) 191029 (March 20, 2020) appealed from a judgment dismissing their counterclaim in a foreclosure proceeding to rescind their mortgage under the Truth in Lending Act (“TILA”). In a case of first impression, an Illinois appellate affirmed holding…
Read More »In Hunt v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, Nat’l Ass’n, No. 18-11306 (11th Cir. Apr. 25, 2019) a consumer filed a class action suit alleging that his lender violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act by reporting him late even after the lender had commenced foreclosure proceedings. He also contended that after he…
Read More »In Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB v. Zarkhin, 2019 IL App (2d) 180439 (March 26, 2019) the Plaintiff filed a foreclosure on property owned by mortgagors, alleging in part that its mortgage, although recorded later, had priority over the defendants’ mortgage because it was intended and used to pay off…
Read More »In Bayview Loan Servicing, LLC v. Providence Bus. Loan Fund, Inc., No. 2018-18-APPEAL (R.I. Jan. 29, 2019) the Rhode Island Supreme Court holds that a recorded amendment to a mortgage which did not state the duration of the extension of the mortgage was ineffective to extend the validity of the…
Read More »In another chapter in the seemingly never ending saga of Florida’s statute of limitations litigation, a Florida Appellate Court recently held that a foreclosure complaint was not time barred because the time had run on the bank’s ability to enforce a lost note. Mielke v. Deutsche Bank Nat’l Tr. Co.…
Read More »In Sylva, LLC v. Baldwin Court Condominium Association, Inc., 2018 IL App (1st) 170520, a purchaser bought a condominium unit at a foreclosure sale. At the time of sale, the purchaser paid six months’ of the prior owner’s unpaid assessments to clear the title of the unpaid assessment lien. After…
Read More »The new Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (“TCJA”) signed into law on December 22, 2017, may impact the mortgage market for cash out refinances and for junior mortgages taken in order to cash out home equity. Under the TCJA for the taxable years beginning January 1, 2018 through December 31, 2025, only…
Read More »The background: In 2014, the Illinois Appellate Court held in First Mortgage Co. v. Dina, 2014 IL App (2d) 130567, 11 N.E.3d 343 (Dina I) that under the Illinois’ Residential Mortgage License Act (Act) if the originating mortgagee was not licensed a the time of origination the mortgage was void.…
Read More »An Illinois appellate court construed the applicable statute on assignment of rents and concluded that a mortgagee can enforce an assignment of rents provision without taking actual or constructive possession of the property if the mortgagee and mortgagor agree by, for example, a forbearance agreement. In BMO Harris Bank N.A.…
Read More »The Eleventh Circuit in Helman v. Bank of America, 15-13672, – Fed. Appx.– (11th Cir. April 12, 2017) concluded that the least sophisticated consumer would not be misled that it was personally liable for a discharged debt where the monthly statements sent by the debtor’s bank contained a statement that…
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