Tue Jan 4, 2011 by Oppenheim Law on Foreclosure Defense, Foreclosure Workshop & Roy Oppenheim
You might have resolutions; I say let’s just rewrite the rules. When it comes to surviving the real estate hangover from the past few years of excessive financial abuse, Florida homeowners need to sober up. Here are my top 10 rules for 2011: 1. Avoid the use of credit during a deflationary economy… use credit when inflation returns. 2. Be […]
Tue Oct 19, 2010 by Oppenheim Law on Florida Law News
Oppenheim Law’s South Florida Law Blog shares a letter Roy Oppenheim wrote in response to an editorial piece published on October 9th called The Politics of Foreclosure: Your editorial “The Politics of Foreclosure” (October 9) misses a number of significant legal as well as macro economic issues. In fact the editorial’s latent sarcasm (i.e., “the affidavit was supposed to be […]
Wed Nov 7, 2018 by Oppenheim Law on Deficiency Judgements, Florida Foreclosures, Florida Real Estate, Florida Short Sales, Foreclosure Defense & Foreclosure Law
Roy Oppenheim’s retrospection on the 10 year Anniversary of the Great Recession. Part two: The unchanged. I started a series of retrospective posts and videos to reflect upon the tenth-year anniversary of the Great Recession. The first post addressed the consequences of the economic collapse. This post discusses what remains the same after it, and in the next, and last […]
Mon Oct 3, 2016 by Oppenheim Law on Florida Law News
A few years back a good old friend of mine, Sheldon Cohen, former commissioner of the IRS under President Johnson and chief counsel under President Kennedy, told me over lunch in DC that the whole problem with the collapse of the rule of law during the mortgage foreclosure crisis with the banks is that if they were allowed to get […]
Thu Mar 26, 2015 by Oppenheim Law on Florida Law News
The transformation of the United States from a democratic-republic to an oligarchy where the wealthy elites yield most of the power.
Thu Apr 21, 2022 by Oppenheim Law on Real Estate
There is a rise in homeowner associations attempting to block investors from purchasing residential properties for rental purposes. These groups claim that, by having companies buying rental properties, has actually led to a decline in property maintenance, making their neighborhoods less attractive and potentially lowering their property values. While homeowner associations typically enforce rules found in their documents, such as […]
Mon Mar 7, 2022 by Oppenheim Law on Florida Real Estate
Currently, Florida lawmakers are about to pass on a bipartisan basis one of the strictest condo inspection and reserve funding requirements within the United States. The legislation is an attempt to prevent tragedies such as the horrific Surfside, FL collapse last June, which raised issues of condo ownership, collective responsibility for condo maintenance and upkeep, and inadequate reserves. Picture courtesy […]
Mon Apr 22, 2019 by Oppenheim Law on Florida Foreclosures & Foreclosure Law
As many of you know, we at Oppenheim Law were invited to submit a friend of the court brief in the Supreme Court case of Mary Ann Glass v. Nationstar Mortgage in which the issue before the Court was whether a borrower in a foreclosure action is entitled to attorneys’ fees when the borrower successfully disputed the bank’s standing to […]
