by Julia Marnin A woman had no idea her home — which she had owned outright and lived in for 12 years — was foreclosed on and sold to the highest bidder in North Carolina, her attorney says. Trenita Rogers only learned of the matter when...
by Samantha Kummerer - ABC11 When the caller on the other end of the phone asked her when she was moving out, Trenita Rogers thought it was a joke. She's owned her Pitt County home for 12 years and even paid it off. So she was shocked...
By Brent Godwin, LAW360 A group of North Carolina homeowners is asking a federal judge to hold real estate investment company The Estates in contempt, saying it is violating the court's injunction on selling and buying properties and its charging order to pay $1.2 million...
By Korie Dean, Michael Gordon and Mary Helen Moore RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER Homeowners associations can foreclose on a home with ease when bills are 30 days overdue, and Chapel Hill attorney Jim White said with more and more HOAs being run by large commercial management companies,...
By Mary Helen Moore RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER In North Carolina, the Planned Community Act governs homeowners associations established since 1999. There’s no oversight agency governing the thousands of HOA boards in the state, but here’s what state law says about common questions. CAN AN HOA FORECLOSE...
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The Estates LLC, which runs a database of North Carolina properties in foreclosure, lost its bid to avoid a trial of bid-rigging conspiracy claims, when a federal judge in Greensboro, N.C., ruled Wednesday that the company’s arguments applied the wrong antitrust standard. (subscription required) https://news.bloomberglaw.com/class-action/foreclosure-bid-rigging-litigation-headed-for-antitrust-trial ...
Written with Mallory Miller JDThe story of home foreclosure rescue scams is too common throughout North Carolina. Predators find individuals who are facing public foreclosures and offer to “save your home,” “rescue you from foreclosure,” or “pay your mortgage.” Instead of helping homeowners take care...
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