South Florida Law Blog

On July 23, the law allowing the FAA to collect aviation taxes expired due to stubbornness between the houses of Congress. The expiration cost the government between $25 and $30 million dollars a day in lost revenue and 4,000 FAA workers were furloughed until the impasse was resolved Friday. Or so we thought. On Friday following the announcement of the […]

  Rumors are spreading about a new tax on real estate that is part of President Obama’s healthcare law. The new tax, which has been dubbed a real estate “sales tax,” has a lot of misinformation out about it. For example, many blogs such as the Spokesman Review accuse the new law of imposing a 3.8% tax on the sale […]

Excellent… excellent… excellent video! Sometimes it takes an outsider to reflect a true mirror upon us. Just like when De Tocqueville described Americans and America over 150 years ago, Al Jazeera English made a poignant video describing where we went wrong and the consequences of these decisions. The richest 1% of US Americans earn nearly a quarter of the country’s […]

Is homeowners​hip still an important part of the American dream? That’s what Oppenheim Law set to find out in the latest social media-driven poll on its Facebook fan page. The results leaned toward favoring home ownership as part of the classic U.S. lifestyle. But there could be new rules for the American Dream in the future. Jody Cohen believes home […]

South Florida Law Blog’s Roy Oppenheim says we’re not out of the woods yet! A second wave of Florida foreclosures will hit in the third quarter of this year, Florida Double Dip? Foreclosures, Zombie Foreclosures, Fraud-closures from Oppenheim Law on Vimeo. Oppenheim Law Predictions: Government programs such as unemployment benefits as well as the reduction in payroll tax benefits are […]

As we race closer and closer to crashing the debt ceiling like Willy Wonka in the Chocolate Factory skyrocketing in his glass elevator, many concerned Americans are urging President Obama take matters into his own hands by invoking the 14th Amendment. The critical portion of the 14th Amendment to this crisis is Section 4, which reads in pertinent part: “The […]

Carelessness, neglect and an utter disregard for proper procedures is something Oppenheim Law has come to expect from the mortgage industry. So it is no surprise that mortgage servicers might have turned once again to robo-signing in order to foreclose on homes, according to Reuters. This time it’s because the original documents don’t even exist! During the housing boom, over […]

Welcome back to the Divided States of America. Oppenheim Law has been discussing the chasm that exists in our country between recourse and non-recourse states for years. (Check out Roy Oppenheim’s Op Ed piece in the Sun-Sentinel) It now appears that rift is widening. In non-recourse states, like California, a lender may not pursue a deficiency following a foreclosure sale […]