Finding Hope When Facing Foreclosures and Sheriff Sales
It’s no secret that the real estate market is continuing to implode http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08250/909864-28.stm. While Pittsburgh’s real estate market has been spared much of the pain facing the real estate markets whose prices are plummeting, it has not totally escaped. http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08211/900169-28.stm. Any local bankruptcy attorney will tell you their phones have been frequently ringing fueled by a rash of homeowners who are having trouble keeping up with their home payments. They want to know what their options are if they have missed a few payments or worse are facing a sherrifs sale.
Recognizing the devasting impact this issue can cause, we have recorded a free legal podcast to give some insights into what a sherrif sale means and whether bankruptcy can offer some protection.
Episode 31 - Foreclosure and Short Sales - Cleaning Up Your Current Mess. Listen to a 1-2-3 Law Group attorney describe the foreclosure process for losing your home and strategies for making a bad situation possibly better with short sales. Listen how short sales can reduce the pain of a foreclosure with more privacy and less long term risks. Recorded live on June 26, 2008. .
For a complete list of 1-2-3 Law Group’s free legal podcasts on the Making Law Easy Show, visit our website at http://www.makinglaweasy.com/free-legal-resources/. Or you can call us toll free at 877-7-123-LAW (529) and one of our attorneys will attempt to answer your questions with a free consultation.
Real Estate Reassessments in Pennsylvania
The property reassessment situation is anything but clear in Allegheny County. Currently the issue on whether the assessments can be moved to a new base year or any base year or whether the base year system is constitutional, has many implications for local property owners. A recent article in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette described the current mess in front of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08249/909747-100.stm. If the 2002 base year is eliminated at some point and if base year assessments are found unconstitutional, you can expect to see a significant push state wide to raise local revenues by reassessing properties.
If you’d like to learn more about how the reassessment process works, 1-2-3 Law Group taped a free podcast with an experienced real estate attorney and a property appraiser last fall. Listen to this show further described below or many of our other free legal podcasts by visiting http://www.makinglaweasy.com/free-legal-resources/.
<strong>EPISODE 17</strong> - Making Sense of Real Estate Assessments. Listen to two experts, a real estate attorney with 34 years experience and a state certified real estate appraiser with 31 years of experience talk about the reassessment mess. What should you do? What do notices you might be receiving mean? Why is this happening? Recorded live on Jan. 10th, 2008 at 4PM.
For more information, call 1-2-3 Law Group at 1-877-7-123-LAW (529).
Juvenile Law In The Spotlight
A recent assault at the Shuman Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania brought the topic of juvenile law into the headlines. http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08248/909281-53.stm. While this case deals with juveniles, who are already in the juvenile system, being charged with an assault on a correction officer, juvenile crime is far broader than just this sensational crime. Every weekend across the area within the city of Pittsburgh and local suburbs, teenagers go to parties where alcohol is served. Some get behind the wheel and are charged with DUI’s. Some are simply observed to be under the influence by police officers and charged with underaged drinking. Sometimes police officers request entrance into a person’s house to investigate underage drinking. Our criminal lawyers are often asked what happens to my son or daughter if they are charged with a crime? How does this impact their job search or college applications? Can you expunge the criminal records of a juvenile?
1-2-3 Law Group on the Making Law Easy show has tackled this topic in a free legal podcast.
Episode 38: Juvenile Crime. Perhaps the most requested show we have done from parents. Listen to a 1-2-3 Law Group attorney discuss what happens to juveniles when they get in trouble. We will cover DUI’s, drug possession, statutory rape, cooperating with the police, the impact of a criminal record, expungement and other issues. Recorded live on September 2, 2008.
To listen to more of our free legal resources, come listen to all of our growing library of free legal podcasts at http://www.makinglaweasy.com/free-legal-resources/. For more information, call us toll free at 877-7-123-LAW (529).