Last month, in Landau v. RoundPoint Mortgage Servicing Corp., the Eleventh Circuit held that a mortgage loan servicer may move to reschedule a previously ordered foreclosure sale after a borrower submits a completed loss mitigation application. 925 F.3d 1365 (11th Cir. June 11, 2019). The court rejected the plaintiff’s argument that moving to reschedule a…
Tag: Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA)
Interpretations of RESPA: A foreclosure sale “occurs” when scheduled, and one instance is never a pattern.
In Lage v. Ocwen Loan Servicing LLC, 2016 WL 5864507, Plaintiff-borrowers sued defendant loan servicer, alleging liability under the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (“RESPA”) for failure to evaluate the merits of their loss mitigation application within thirty days as required by 12 C.F.R. § 1024.41(c) and for inadequately responding to their notice of error as…