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By Tracy M. Evans, Esq., Associate, Saxon, Gilmore, Carraway & Gibbons, P.A. A recent decision by the Florida Supreme Court amounts to a victory in the area of creditors’ rights with respect to the lien priority of first mortgages. On May 16, 2013, the Florida Supreme Court issued a 5-2 decision ruling that cities cannot...
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By Ricardo L. Gilmore, Esq., Shareholder at Saxon, Gilmore, Carraway & Gibbons, P.A. Published in FAHROgram, March, 2013 We are lucky to have an organization like FAHRO that takes up the causes of housing authorities through the use of our excellent and active lobbying consultants, both in our state and nationally. However, in these times of...
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by Sarah M. Glaser, Esq., Associate, Saxon, Gilmore, Carraway & Gibbons, P.A. When a company is sued, that business is immediately required to retain documents and data related to the lawsuit. Many companies have policies of deleting emails and data after a set period of time, and so often times, data retention policies need to...
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by Sarah M. Glaser, Esq., Associate, Saxon, Gilmore, Carraway & Gibbons, P.A. In September 2012, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) released a report indicating that approximately 68 million American adults are unbanked or underbanked. Following that report, the FDIC recently published a press release on the ways banks are working to meet the needs...
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by Sarah M. Glaser, Esq., Associate, Saxon, Gilmore, Carraway & Gibbons, P.A. The Report indicates that Florida has one of the nation’s highest increases in scheduled foreclosures since last year. This is an 83% increase in scheduled foreclosures since 2011. RealtyTrac says “more than 200,000 new foreclosures have been filed across Florida, at an average...
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by Sarah M. Glaser, Esq., Associate, Saxon, Gilmore, Carraway & Gibbons, P.A. A recent internet article analyzed a study of the amount of time needed to process residential mortgages in 2012. The study compares the length of time needed to close on a mortgage loan to the time needed to close in 2011. The author...
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by Sarah M. Glaser, Esq., Associate, Saxon, Gilmore, Carraway & Gibbons, P.A. In June 2012, the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Counsel (“FFIEC”), an interagency body that supplies standards, reports and principles for financial institutions, published a statement setting forth risks and issues related to outsourced cloud computing activities. Cloud computing involves using the internet to...
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Pinellas County Housing Authority (PCHA) was recently honored as best in the state by the Florida Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials (FAHRO) at its 2012 Annual Convention & Trade Show in Orlando. The “Housing Authority of the Year” award recognized the housing authority that ranked highest for commitment to solving housing and associated community...
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by Sarah M. Glaser, Esq., Associate, Saxon, Gilmore, Carraway & Gibbons, P.A. Florida has one of the nation’s “largest backlogs of foreclosure cases: 360,000.” Florida state lawmakers are finding new ways to unclog this backlog. Recently, Florida lawmakers have been considering legislation that would make it easier to foreclose on abandoned properties. This article discusses...
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By Will Hobson, Times Staff Writer Tampa Bay Times http://www.tampabay.com/news/growth/affordable-housing-complex-for-seniors-planned-on-ulmerton-road/1239598 LARGO — In 1999, the Pinellas County Housing Authority decided to move its headquarters from downtown Clearwater to Greenhouse Shoppes, a mostly vacant Ulmerton Road shopping center the authority bought for $1.85 million. Nearly 13 years later, the housing authority is still there, but the...
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