Thu Jan 10, 2013 by Oppenheim Law on Florida Law News
Roy Oppenheim’s commentary was originally published on Yahoo Homes! and is being redistributed on South Florida Law Blog with their permission. The Independent Foreclosure Reviewis dead. Long live the Independent Foreclosure Review. When word came out about this so-called “independent” process last year, few bought into it. I certainly never did, and most homeowners knew from the beginning that it […]
Fri Jan 4, 2013 by Oppenheim Law on Florida Foreclosures, Florida Law News & Florida Real Estate
The last thing I want to do is scold a judge. But once again foreclosure judges down in Miami-Dade are resorting to old habits, and there is no way I can stand by idly and let the rule of law be trampled on. Because the rocket docket has risen from the grave and returned to South Florida. Don’t believe me? […]
Thu Jan 3, 2013 by Oppenheim Law on Short Sales
Roy Oppenheim’s commentary was originally published on Yahoo Homes! and is being republished on South Florida Law Blog with their permission. In all the fanfare about last night’s last-minute buzzer-beater agreement to avert the fiscal cliff, you may not have realized that a major component to the housing market’s revival actually survived. Mortgage loan forgiveness is alive and well my […]
Fri Dec 28, 2012 by Oppenheim Law on Florida Law News
Continuing our recap of our most popular blogs from 2012… #5 — Robosigning Settlement Proves Sky Was Falling! Chicken Little Was Right! Yesterday’s robosigning settlement that all but one state ultimately signed off on, was far from perfect. Let’s make that perfectly clear. Depending on what you have read, you might be outraged, you might be relieved, you might be […]
Wed Dec 26, 2012 by Oppenheim Law on Florida Law News
Editor’s Note: As we head into 2013, I want to wish all of our readers a Happy New Year from everyone at Oppenheim Law. This has been our most successful year since the South Florida Law Blog was started in 2009. Our posts were seen by nearly 100,000 people, including our readers at Yahoo! Homes, where many of Roy Oppenheim’s […]
Wed Dec 19, 2012 by Oppenheim Law on Foreclosure Defense, Foreclosure Fraud & Foreclosure Law
Below is an abbreviated version of an article written by Roy Oppenheim and Jacquelyn Trask, which was first published this week by Thomson Reuters. The longer version of “Deconstructing The Black Magic of Securitized Trusts” was published earlier this year by the Stetson Law Review. From 2003 to 2007, Florida saw the largest real estate boom in its history. Real […]
Sat Dec 15, 2012 by Oppenheim Law on Florida Law News
Roy Oppenheim’s commentary was originally published on Yahoo Homes! and is being republished on South Florida Law Blog with their permission. The banks are too big to jail. The Department of Justice, as much as they will try to tell you otherwise, believes it. When push came to shove, prosecutors did not have the stones to do what is right, […]
Thu Dec 13, 2012 by Oppenheim Law on Blog Legal Del Sur De La Florida
Se puede ver muchas hipérboles y pánico detrás de las discusiones del acantilado fiscal, ya sea real o un drama creado para la televisión. Pero esto no significa que partes del debate no sea justificado. El acantilado fiscal contiene muchas piezas movientes, las cuales se pierden en un río de confusión. Pero detrás de los teatros y dramas políticos, hay […]
