South Florida Law Blog

Millennials: Trade your Student Loans for a Mortgage. As we noted in an earlier blog, it’s no secret that mounting student loans have made it difficult for Millennials to buy homes. Eagle Home Mortgage, the lending arm of South Florida’s largest homebuilder, Lennar Corp., is proposing a new solution to try and remove this common financial obstacle. Lennar Corp recently […]

Shoddy Paperwork Haunts Private Student Loan Lenders   In a not-so-surprising development, the shoddy transfer paperwork that has consistently dogged lenders in the mortgage foreclosure space is now rearing its head in the debt collection arena — largely in the area of private student loan debt. At Oppenheim Law, during the foreclosure crisis, we consistently saw mortgage lenders unable to […]

Roy Oppenheim provides a summary of the current real estate market and where it’s heading the remainder of the year for homeowners. National home prices seem to be rising at a very moderate rate.  As of this month home prices are up 1.56% year-to-date. Last year during this period we were witnessing a 2.1% year-to-date increase.  That’s about a 25% […]

My son just finished US history AP as did many high schoolers around the country. We discussed how many years it takes to know if a certain event is historical. The answer is usually around five. For example history textbooks now cover September 11th and Obama’s historic election. The Great Recession, however, that started before the Obama Presidency is still […]