Foreclosure firm Baum’s demise leaves N.Y. homeowners in costly limbo
New York’s largest foreclosure firm, which once handled thousands of cases in the Lower Hudson Valley, will officially close Monday, but it has left a trail of questions and frustrated property owners caught in legal limbo.
The Steven J. Baum PC law firm, based in Amherst, N.Y., originally was retained for more than 600 foreclosure cases that remain active in Westchester, Rockland and Putnam. In all, Baum’s firm has handled more than 4,000 cases in the three-county region since 1999, court records show.
But last year, the firm announced its official closing, scheduled for Feb. 20, after it came under scrutiny from state and federal agencies for “robo-signing,” or mass producing foreclosure documents without verifying whether they were accurate.
“The problems Baum’s firm left this state with are just beginning,” said Susan Chana Lask, a Manhattan attorney. “The new firms taking over his files need to take time to figure out and correct what he did.”
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Another one to run and hide when the heat cranks up, I hope thy all go to jail or their live become what our have, Welcome to crapland
No different then the mess David J. Stern left for Florida.
will steven j. baum be looking for a burger joint to to protect his money from lawsuits just like stern?
The man is nothing more than a parasite and a leech. Get the can of Raid and get rid of unwanted pests in your home town.
bedbug.
steven j. baum is a bedbug.
instead of celebrating President’s Day, baum is shutting down. he’s hiding his dead presidents
from swindled homeowners who are going to sue his ass
I like your sense of humor. Just another crook…no wonder we keep hearing about the fading middle class.
OH HELL NO KIRSTEN HOWARD…!!! THESE CROOKS ARE WAY MORE THAN JUST CRIMINALS…THEY ARE SNEAKY AND DECEPTIVE…WHICH MAKES ALL OF THEM, INCLUDING THE TRAITOR POLITICIANS INCREDIBLY ….DANGEROUS…..IN FACT THESE SNEAKY, DANGEROUS CRIMINALS ARE NOT JUST A THREAT TO THE 99% BUT, THEY ARE AN INCREDIBLY DANGEROUS THREAT TO OUR NATIONAL SECURITY AND OUR NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY…THEREFORE OUR FREEDOM, OUR INDEPENDENCE, OUR WEALTH, OUR LIBERTY , OUR JUSTICE SYSTEM AND OUR PROSPERITY…
SO IF YOU THINK THAT IS EVEN FUNNY KIRSTEN HOWARD..YOU ARE EITHER A BRAINWASHED MORON WHO HAD BETTER GET A CLUE OR YOU ARE EITHER ONE OF THEM OR YOU ARE WORKING FOR THESE SATANTISTS…….AND IF THAT IS INDEED THE CASE THAT YOU ARE ONE OF THEIR COMRADES OR WORK FOR THEM………. HERES A MESSAGE TO YOUR OWNERS FROM THE 99%…..WE THE PEOPLE, THE 99%, AND THAT INCLUDES, THE COPS, THE MILITARY AND ALL OF YOUR OTHER LAW ENFORCEMENT VICTIMS…. CAUGHT ALL OF YOU DIRTY CRIMINAL BASTARDS RED HANDED…TRYING TO WALK AWAY WITH OUR COUNTRY……..AND WE ARE ALL ARMED, PISSED OFF AND KNOW WHO ALL OF YOU ARE….!
YOU NEED TO SEEK THE TRUTH KIRSTEN HOWARD…THE TRUTH IS NOT FUNNY…IN FACT THE TRUTH IS NOT ONLY CRIMINAL BUT THE TRUTH ABOUT ALL OF THIS GOES ALL THE WAY BACK TO 9/11 AND WHAT THESE EVIL SNEAKY CRIMINALS HAVE DONE IS INCREDIBLEY EVIL…SATANIC…..”SEEK YE THE TRUTH, AND THE TRUTH WILL MAKE YOU FREE.” AND MY I ADD, INCREDIBLY INFURIATED….!! IN FACT IT IS NOT ONE BIT HUMOROUS THAT… YOU WILL ONLY KNOW THAT YOU HAVE FOUND THE TRUTH WHEN, YOU AS AN INDIVIDUAL WANT TO TAKE UP ARMS AGAINST IT….TO DEFEND YOURSELF, YOUR FAMILY AND YOUR COUNTRY….!