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Florida Foreclosure Bank Fraud Workshop by Roy Oppenheim

Wednesday, October 27th, 2010

Florida Foreclosure Bank Fraud Workshop by Roy OppenheimFind out what the foreclosure crisis headlines mean to Florida homeowners and how this ‘train wreck’ impacts real estate buying, selling and investing. Join Florida Real Estate Attorney and Legal Blogger Roy Oppenheim on Wednesday November 3, 2010 via a streaming webcast on Oppenheim Law TV or limited seating for the live workshop in Boca Raton, Fl.

It’s out of control! Real estate law is moving at the speed of light and news from the banks changes by the hour. Gretchen Morgensen of The New York Times remarks that this is One Mess that Can’t be Papered Over. Allan Sloan, Fortune Magazine’s senior editor at large, sums up the crisis this way in his column for the Washington Post: “If you screw up big time when you deal with a giant bank, you’re toast. If the giant bank screws up when it deals with you, it gets a do-over.”

Florida, hit hard by the housing crisis, is emerging as a central hub of the mortgage-related problems. What does this mean to the Florida homeowner? Oppenheim shares the latest news, as well as his views on this ever-changing set of events at a free real estate workshop, which streams live via the web or in person on Wednesday, November 3rd from 6 – 7 p.m.

  • What: Florida Homeowner Foreclosure Fraud Workshop
  • When: Wednesday, November 3, 2010 – 6 to 7 p.m.
  • Who: Homeowners facing foreclosure or underwater mortgages, real estate professionals, buyers, sellers and investors
  • Where: Oppenheim Law TV

Or come in person

  • 95 NW 11th St., Boca Raton, FL 33432

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Party Over for Banks! Homeowners Get Their Day in Court, Says Roy Oppenheim

Friday, October 22nd, 2010

Hiring “Burger King kids” who barely knew what a mortgage was! This best describes the profile of a robo-signer according to a recent New York Times foreclosure article. But the tides are changing; instead of plowing through 70 foreclosure cases a day, judges are down to a mere 25 cases each day. Now maybe that the foreclosure monkey business is slowing down, supervisors will perhaps have the energy to sign their own names on the documents they send to the judges.

One example is Cheryl Samons, the supervisor at the law offices of David J. Stern in Plantation who “would give certain paralegals rights to sign her name, because most of the time she was very tired, exhausted from signing her name numerous times per day,” said a Stern employee in a deposition that the Florida attorney general released Monday.

Foreclosure La La Land

The shoddy foreclosure procedures, and the subsequent suspensions, have frozen cases in court. The moratorium “means these cases will be sitting there in la la land,” a judge told the Wall Street Journal.

But foreclosure la la land only means homeowners get the attention they deserve when they are represented by competent counsel. Otherwise, “the cases still seem to be moving forward,” according to Oppenheim’s observations as related to Bloomberg News when he attended court earlier this week.

“Appellate courts in Florida are now requiring judges to listen to all defenses and give homeowners their day in court. This is a drastic change from what has been occurring until now: appellate courts in Florida routinely, without an opinion, kept affirming the lower court’s unconstitutional behavior,” said legal blogger and Florida foreclosure defense attorney Roy Oppenheim.
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