by Sarah Poriss | Sep 29, 2018 | Foreclosure, Real Court Stories
Who do you picture when you hear the word Foreclosure? Do you picture people sitting around piles of cash they have saved up because they haven’t paid their mortgage? Do you picture people going on vacation on the money they saved by not paying their mortgage? Do... 
by Sarah Poriss | Sep 21, 2018 | Foreclosure, Real Court Stories
I was in court a few days ago, a woman was there, representing herself, trying to tell the court that she was about to sell her house and the foreclosure ‘could stop now.’ She was too late. She tried explaining that the bank told her she’d be fine... 
by Sarah Poriss | Feb 21, 2017 | Foreclosure, Real Court Stories, Stuff you may not know
This week’s blog was co-authored with Jenny Bradley, a Family Law Mediation Attorney in the Research Triangle in North Carolina. In a perfect world, any half-way serious review of fast food burgers from around the country would rank the A&W Third-Pound... 
by Sarah Poriss | Nov 3, 2016 | Court Practices, Real Court Stories, Solo practice
The late great Roger Ebert came up with a set of movies rules for movie viewing gleaned from his decades of amazing reviews. Things like ‘the guy in a war movie who shows everyone the picture of his sweetheart will die by the end’. Or ‘Ali MacGraw... 
by Sarah Poriss | Apr 24, 2016 | Foreclosure, Real Court Stories, Stuff you may not know
An attorney and a real estate guy were just arrested in Connecticut for allegedly running a scam on people facing foreclosure. They’re accused of something that looks remarkably like a variation on the Detroit scam I wrote about awhile back. According to the... 
by Sarah Poriss | Mar 22, 2016 | Foreclosure, Real Court Stories, Stuff you may not know
About a month or so ago, news came down about a California Appeals Court decision where the court recognized that a mortgage company/bank suing for foreclosure could not produce the note and had used robo-signing on documents. The court lambasted the bank and awarded...
