Carl E. Person - Foreclosure Defense Attorney - All 62 Counties in NYS

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Defending a Foreclosure Action in Richmond County (Staten Island), New York - Attorney Carl E. Person - 212-307-4444

6 Rules for Saving Your Home from Foreclosure and Sale

Here are six rules I urge you to consider when you have been served with a summons and complaint in a foreclosure action in any of the 62 Counties in New York State:

1. You must answer the complaint on a timely basis (usually within 20 days after service, but let your lawyer determine this for you);

2. You need an experienced mortgage foreclosure defense attorney to give yourself the best defense; also, you are better served if you retain an attorney shortly after you receive a Notice of Intent to Foreclosure (which is required under New York law to be served at least 90 days prior to commencement of a foreclosure action).

3. Even if you owe all of the money claimed, you can still have legitimate defenses to the foreclosure action - New York law protects homeowners, but only if you act promptly;

4. Conferencing in a foreclosure action should be understood and closely followed by you, because this court-mandated conferencing is your best opportunity for saving your property, but only if you understand and use the conferencing period, and make sure you do not lose your conferencing rights by non-appearance or by failure to provide information.

5. You have a much better chance of saving your property from foreclosure if you act in accordance with the first four points above; and

6. For your information, New York State is the best state of all 50 states for homeowner protection during mortgage foreclosure actions. Take advantage of these protections. Call me to find out some of these protections and to discuss your situation. Also, you might want to look at some of my 100+ YouTube videos on defending foreclosure actions. A description of these videos with links is available at My 100+ Videos on Foreclosure Defense.

Free eBooklet (273 pages) HOW TO GET RID OF YOUR UNWANTED DEBT (Rev. 5/14) by attorney Carl E. Person

If you are now facing a foreclosure action in any of the 62 Counties of New York State, I will email you a free copy of my 273-page eBooklet entitled "How to Get Rid of Your Unwanted Debt". The eBooklet covers home mortgage debt, credit card debt, student loan debt, and IRS debt. To see the table of contents, click on Table of Contents.

The eBooklet should give you some good information about how to eliminate some or all of your debt. I should add, however, that the section on mortgages deals with saving your mortgaged home from foreclosure instead of trying to have your loan declared unenforceable (something which rarely happens).

To get your free copy, just call me at 212-307-4444 and tell me about the foreclosure action you are now facing, assuming you do not already have an attorney. Too many homeowners fail to hire an attorney to protect their rights, and lose their home as a result. Whether or not you already have an attorney, I'll email you a copy of my eBooklet.

Please include the ZIP Code for the location of your property (and the ZIP Code included in the MERS or Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. database of mortgaged properties (owned by MERSCORP Holdings, Inc., owned and controlled by the major banks) , which should be one of the following for Richmond County (Staten Island), New York: 10301, 10302, 10303, 10304, 10305, 10306, 10307, 10308, 10309, 10310, 10311, 10312, 10313 and 10314.

Call me and I'll email you instructions (using your ZIP Code) for finding out if the mortgage note for your mortgaged property purports to be registered with MERS, which is a bank-owned stock exchange for residential mortgages. Incidentally, if you have a second mortgage, the owner of the note may not be the same as the owner of your first mortgage note because of securitization rules for risk distribution which do not permit a securitized pool (with a major bank as Trustee) to own more than one mortgage note from a given ZIP Code.

Name, Location and Telephone No. of Supreme Court for Richmond County

Richmond County Supreme Court
Richmond County Courthouse
18 Richmond Terrace
Staten Island NY 10301

Richmond County Supreme Court
130 Stuyvesant Place
Staten Island NY 10301

Richmond County Supreme Court
25 Hyatt Street
Staten Island NY 10301

Other court locations for Richmond County may be available at NYS Website to Look Up Court Addresses in NYS.

Telephone Number for Clerk of Richmond County Supreme Court: 718-390-5201 (18 Richm. Terr.); and 718-675-8716 (25 Hyatt St.).

Pending Foreclosures in Richmond County (Staten Island), New York and Foreclosure Trends

Communities and neighborhoods in Richmond County: (Staten Island):

Arlington, Castleton Corners, Clifton, Concord, Elm Park, Fort Wadsworth, Graniteville, Grymes Hill, Livingston, Mariners Harbor, Meiers Corners, New Brighton, Port Ivory, Port Richmond, Randall Manor, Rosebank, St. George, Shore Acres, Silver Lake, Stapleton, Sunnyside, Tompkinsville, West Brighton, Westerleigh, Arrochar, Bloomfield, Bulls Heads, Chelsea, Dongan Hills, Egbertville, Emerson Hill, Grant City, Grasmere, Midland Beach, New Dorp, New Springville, Oakwood, Ocean Breeze, Old Town, South Beach, Todt Hill, Travis, Annadale, Arden Heights, Bay Terrace, Charleston, Eltingville, Great Kills, Greenridge, Huguenot, Pleasant Plains, Prince’s Bay, Richmond Valley, Rossville, Tottenville and Woodrow.

Population of Richmond County: 472,621 (est. 7/13); land area: 58.5 square miles. Sources: FactBook.org and Wikipedia

The number of pending foreclosures in Richmond County as of October, 2013 was 18,224 or 1 in every xxxx mortgaged properties (information needs to be obtained), according to statistics compiled by foreclosures.com. See Number of Pending Foreclosures in Richmond County and Foreclosure Trends by RealtyTrac.

Foreclosure proceedings in NYS as of the end of 2013 are 1 for every 2,141 mortgaged properties. The 5 NY counties with the highest foreclosure rate are: 1. Putnam County, 1 in every 353 mortgaged properties; 2. Rockland County, 1 in every 811 mortgaged properties; 3. Orleans County, 1 in every 875 mortgaged properties; 4. Columbia County, 1 in every 909 mortgaged properties; and 5. Nassau County, 1 in every 964 mortgaged properties.

How You Can Fight Foreclosures in Richmond County

Foreclosures result more from extended wrongful conduct of lenders than any comparable wrongdoing by homeowners. Meaningful reform needs to begin at home, in the towns, village, municipality and hamlet, where concerned citizens can organize and change the rules, to create a better economy for themselves.

In Richmond County (together with the other 4 boroughs) voters have the right to enact laws directly, and should do so. My www.voterlaws.com website provides examples of "ballot initiatives" for creating change in NYC laws. There are some changes in law that can be expected to result in an improved economy for voters and other residents of Richmond County and New York City. If you were Mayor of NYC or the head of the City Council, what laws would you like to enact? You can do this through a ballot initiative (see Voterlaws.Com for Local Ballot Initiatives in New York for examples of local statutes that can be enacted by voters directly in local elections).

If you believe that we need changes, you might want to hitch up with the local Libertarian Party, at:

Libertarian Party for Richmond County.

Or, email Richard Bier at richard.bier@gmail.com or email Kevin Storberg at kevinstorberg@gmail.com email to statenislandlp@gmail.com.

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Carl E. Person, Attorney at Law
225 E. 36th Street - Suite 3A
New York NY 10016-3664

Call me at 212-307-4444 or email me at carlpers2@gmail.com and then follow up with a call to 212-307-4444.

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