Banks Have Lawyers to File Foreclosure. Petroff Amshen Defends Homeowners. 

"The Best Defense is a Good Offense" Foreclosure Defense Attorneys at Petroff Amshen LLP will strategize with you to mount the best defense in foreclosure and help you keep your home.

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Aggressive Effort to Fight Foreclosure 

Petroff Amshen LLP has the best Foreclosure Defense Lawyers to fight against banks, investors, and servicing companies that will attempt to take your home. We fight foreclosure complaints in foreclosure actions in all of New York counties. Foreclosure Defense Attorneys at Petroff Amshen LLP will strategize with you to mount the best defense in foreclosure and help you keep your home. 

Over the course of many years, Foreclosure Defense Lawyers at Petroff Amshen LLP developed many foreclosure defense strategies that help all homeowners. We have compiled a list of advices from the best Foreclosure Lawyers in NYC, including Brooklyn, Staten Island, Queens and New Jersey.

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Always Answer Legal Documents

When served with an action for foreclosure, stress might make you forget to prepare an Answer to Foreclosure Complaint. It is of utmost importance to Answer with the timeframe that is prescribed within the State of New York Civil Practice Law and Rules, with times as short as 20 days.

Always Invoke All Available Defenses

In rush, homeowners may miss crucial defenses that are available to them. For example, defense of “standing” the bank cannot sue without evidence that it owns the loan) may be waived, when you would otherwise be successful in preventing the bank from getting your home and getting favorable terms for a loan modification.

Always Make It To Court

If you are being summoned by the Court always be there. The Court is not your enemy. They understand your plight and in most cases clerks of the Court will be able to point you in the right direction. The Court will schedule Mandatory Foreclosure Settlement Conference where homeowner and bank’s attorney will have an opportunity to “negotiate a loan modification.”

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Here, at Petroff Amshen LLP, we begin to work on your case immediately.  The Answer is prepared and all appropriate counterclaims are presented to protect interests of homeowners. We stop foreclosure and ask the Court for a Settlement Conference where Foreclosure Defense Lawyers from Petroff Amshen LLP will present your foreclosure defense. 

In most cases, our clients do not have to sit at Mandatory Foreclosure Settlement Conference and wait for their name to be called.  We make all court appearances, submissions to lenders, and prepare all necessary legal documents for the Court. 

We know how to prepare your case for Settlement Conference in Residential Mortgage Foreclosure Actions, including presentation of your personal financial circumstances to the lender, servicer, or investor, submission of all required documents, and undertaking of successful negotiations to save your home  

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