Posts Tagged ‘from the trenches’

Housing Market Poll: When Will Florida Recover?

Wednesday, May 25th, 2011
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The South Florida Law Blog believes it will be at least 2016 before Florida’s housing market fully recovers, but a new study shows many Americans are far more optimistic.

The results are in, and it appears the majority of those surveyed believe 2012 will be the magic year for the housing market. Trulia and RealtyTrac recently polled 2,034 U.S. adults aged 18 years and older to find out when most Americans think the housing market will recover. A mere 10 percent thought a recovery would happen this year, while nearly a quarter of those surveyed predicted a bumpy road until 2015 and beyond.

Despite recent reports that foreclosures have slowed and sales in Broward and Miami-Dade are trending up, Florida is not out of the woods yet. As special guest and Florida real estate developer, Pat Sessions, pointed out during our talk show From The Trenches, the market has yet to bottom out here in Florida.

As always, the South Florida Law Blog continues to share and comment on the latest in real estate news.

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Roy Oppenheim Real Estate Talk Show: From the Trenches

Wednesday, May 11th, 2011
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Join leading Florida Foreclosure Defense Attorney Roy Oppenheim and special guests CBS4 Chief Investigative Reporter Stephen Stock and Florida real estate developer Patrick Sessions in the first episode of Oppenheim’s new talk show reviewing the Florida real estate saga past, present and future. The first episode of From The Trenches will play on Oppenheim Law’s YouTube Channel starting Thursday May 12, 2011 or tune in to watch the live taping tonight at 7:30 PM via Oppenheim Law TV.

Florida homeowners are invited to tune in to get perspective on where the market is today, where we are headed and options available to craft a personal bailout.

From the Trenches by Roy Oppenheim is a community service talk show. It is designed to interact and engage the South Florida real estate community of buyers, sellers, investors and real estate professionals in a lively online forum.

Meet the first guests on From the Trenches

Guests Stock and Sessions offer expert depth and perspective on the status of the chaotic Florida real estate market .

About Stephen Stock

Bringing his years of experience to the screen, Stock hasn’t just reported the news, he’s helped change policy. After reporting cases of fraudulent documents used in foreclosure cases, a major home title insurance company stopped providing title insurance for homes foreclosed on by GMAC Mortgage, one of of two companies Stock discovered couldn’t verify the documents it was using in court. Among his numerous accomplishments, Stock is a regional Edward R. Murrow award winner and was named an Ethics Fellow at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies in St. Petersburg in 2004.
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Posted in CBS News, Florida Law News, From The Trenches | 2 Comments »

Foreclosure Defense Rights and Wrongs: Squatters, Ejectments and Constitutional Rights

Monday, April 13th, 2009
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Over the past few days it seems that the informal name of this blog: “From the Trenches” is becoming more and more fitting. Florida foreclosure defense has become part of our everyday life – radio, TV, Internet, print.

Let me explain. On Friday on the front page of the New York Times headline Squatters Call Foreclosures Home one could not help to miss an unbelievable story about folks in Miami who squat in foreclosed homes. They move in — usually at night — after the bank takes ownership. They sign contracts with the electric company, water and maybe even cable TV. The banks are slow to throw them out and so is the sheriff. In fact various advocacy groups help people move back into their “own” home after they have been foreclosed.

Maggie Steber for The New York Times

Maggie Steber for The New York Times

Arguably, the homes and the neighborhood are better off having the homes occupied than having an abandoned home without any electric power rotting on the block. Legally, it can get interesting because after a few days the banks can lose the power of the sheriff and the squatters need to be legally ejected through a formal court proceeding called an ejectment.

In fact we had a case recently where after a sale the seller was informally permitted to stay in the home for a few days past the closing date. Soon the few days became weeks and the weeks became months. The police refused to get involved and we had to bring an ejectment action to get the old “owners” out of the residence.
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