South Florida Law Blog

Roy Oppenheim’s commentary was originally published on Yahoo! Homes and is being republished on South Florida Law Blog with their permission. Last week a reporter asked me whether or not I thought President Barack Obama had done enough during the foreclosure crisis. I told him no, of course, and that if Obama does not win a second term, it would […]

Roy Oppenheim’s commentary was originally published on Yahoo! Homes and is being republished on South Florida Law Blog with their permission. So we’ve managed to get through all three presidential debates. But although the presidential election is (thankfully) in the home stretch, did we really learn anything new about either President Barack Obama or Gov. Mitt Romney? And more importantly, […]

Quisiera que tan solo una vez los políticos le dejaran las prosas y simbolismos a los escritores de ciencia ficción. No es que yo esperaba algo diferente, pero cuando veía a Mitt Romney aceptar la nominación Republicana, escuche osadas propuestas y grandes promesas. Fue una narrativa, simple y sencillamente, entretenida, pero una que me temo no hará mucho para ayudar […]

Once, just once, I wish politicians would leave the prose and symbolism to the fiction writers. Not that I was expecting any different, but as I watched Mitt Romney accept the Republican nomination, I heard bold talk and big promises. It is a narrative, plain and simple, an entertaining one perhaps, but one that I fear will do little to […]

  The Republican and Democratic conventions are almost upon us, and the housing crisis has finally been inserted into the presidential election. Maybe the President and his Republican rival see homeowners as nothing more than another campaign issue to be exploited, or maybe they are finally starting to understand how central the need to tackle the foreclosure problem is to […]

After I wrote my little letter to the President, I wondered what kind of response I would get and perhaps more importantly, whether my message would reach its intended audience….if any. Well the response to the blog, from my clients and from my blog readers, was instantaneous. Clearly I’m not alone in my thinking. I may not have received an […]

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 overjoyed. And the target of your wrath or sympathy might depend on your own personal perspective. But make no mistake about it, […]

Well what a wild week it has been. When we came to work on Monday we feared President Obama would put the housing crisis to bed without ever holding the banks’ feet to the fire. The settlement with the banks, which we have blogged about ad nauseam this week, seemed as sure as a chip-shot field goal. But thanks to […]