http://southfloridalawblog.com Florida Real Estate and Foreclosure Defense News from Oppenheim Law Wed, 23 May 2012 20:15:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://southfloridalawblog.com/2009/12/10/the-cat-is-now-out-of-the-bag-renting-is-the-new-american-dream/ http://southfloridalawblog.com/2009/12/10/the-cat-is-now-out-of-the-bag-renting-is-the-new-american-dream/#comments Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:25:09 +0000 RoyOppenheim http://southfloridalawblog.com/?p=690 For almost three years now I have talked about the idea that the American Dream of homeownership was really only a mirage. While policymakers had good intentions, homeownership has in many instances become the American Nightmare for numerous systematic reasons including: greed, lax government regulation and pure fraud. In a wonderful front page analysis in today’s Wall Street Journal, they take us through the process of why renting is now the “New Normal” and the New American Dream.

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