Posts Tagged ‘tampa bay’

On Thursday, July 1, 2010, beginning at 7:00 a.m. and running until 9:00 a.m., I will participate in Tampa Bay, Fox 13′s Ask a Lawyer consumer call in talk show.  This is a great chance to spread the word to the larger community about what good lawyers are doing to help defend homeowners and protect their community and to draw attention to the out of control unethical behavior of the Plaintiff’s Bar.  The abuse of homeowners and the flagrant disregard of the rules and laws of our courts has got to stop.

It will stop if we turn up the volume on this debate.

Please call in and ask the tough questions.  I would especially love to have consumers calling in and asking why these foreclosure mills continue to get away with unethical behavior, why mortgage modification scams continue to operate and what will it take to make the new mediation programs successful.

Please share the numbers with your clients and lets get the whole community talking about foreclosures and what’s happening in our courtrooms…

(800)826-4434

or

(813)845-8255

This message goes out not just to those in the Tampa Bay area, anyone is encouraged to call in!

An article in today’s Wall Street Journal found here notes that the housing market is recovering but

• Other areas look decidedly less hopeful. Miami, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Orlando, Jacksonville and Tampa, Fla., had the highest rates of defaulting borrowers among the 28 markets surveyed.

• The weakest job-market prospects this year were found in Tampa, Jacksonville, Las Vegas, Atlanta, Detroit and Phoenix, according to Moody’s Economy.com.

• In the Miami-Fort Lauderdale, Fla., area, about 28% of mortgage borrowers are behind on payments or in foreclosure, according to LPS Applied Analytics, compared with 8.6% in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area and 13.2% in the entire U.S.

An article in today’s St. Petersburg Times reports that there were only 3545 housing starts in the bay area in all of 2009, an 83% drop since a high of 21,138 in 2005. The article emphasizes what we all already know…

Businesses are scarcely hiring,

banks are scarcely lending

and consumers are scarcely consuming.

So it’s probably no surprise that Tampa Bay builders are scarcely building.

(That’s nice writing, by the way!)

So until something is done about the continuing unemployment/underemployment problem, the troubles in real estate will continue.  With this in mind, the silence out of Washington DC and Tallahassee from the jobs front is just staggering…….crickets chirping.