March 2021, Letters
Foreclosures
In a case decided in 2017, Florida’s Fifth District Court of Appeal showed the way to protect borrowers from foreclosure in the coronavirus pandemic.
In that case, DeLong v. Lakeview Loan Servicing, LLC, 222 So. 3d 662 (Fla. 5th DCA 2017), a borrower, one Robert DeLong, executed a promissory note and mortgage. The note and mortgage recited that Mr. DeLong’s loan was “guaranteed and insured” by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, “the VA.”