“Buy and Bail” is the term used for homeowners who, while owning one house with an underwater mortgage, obtain a mortgage for a new house. Then, after they have purchased the new house, they “bail” on the underwater house by letting it go into foreclosure. This article discusses how homeowners have accomplished this. Depending on...

The article, Florida’s High-Speed Answer to a Foreclosure Mess, discusses Florida’s new foreclosures-only courts that have been set up to reduce the state’s backlog of foreclosures. It is arguable whether these courts are constitutional and whether they violate homeowners’ rights to due process. The article also discusses how some of Florida’s foreclosure law firms operate.

When a homeowner is worried that they might lose their house to foreclosure, they are usually also worried about whether their state is a “recourse” or “non-recourse” state. In a non-recourse state, if the funds from the sale of the mortgaged property (the house) are  not enough to cover the outstanding debt (the amount the...