by Staff | Jul 3, 2020 | Legal Due Diligence
We got a great question the other day, a client read a document and said, well it says I have access across this easement. What does that mean? Does that mean ingress and egress? Or does it mean anytime I want to however I want to. And they just wanted us to talk a...
by Staff | May 22, 2020 | Buying Real Estate, Legal Due Diligence
In this article, I’m going to talk about one of the more common ways we see people address boundary line disputes or encroachment issues. If somebody has, say, a garage or a shed or even a house that’s encroaching from one property onto another, and how...
by Staff | Dec 20, 2019 | Legal Due Diligence, Selling Real Estate
When we talk about lot consolidation, we need to be careful of what we’re doing. And frankly, we need to be careful about what we’re doing before we buy. If anybody’s involved in the purchase or sale of dirt, or frankly the use of it, they need to be...
by Staff | Nov 19, 2019 | General Legal, Legal Due Diligence
The fence was built in 1978. So we followed the section line perfectly, up until it started to meander west a little bit. And pretty soon there were three or four acres that were taken from the guy with 50 acres and given to the people who were there. TimelyContract...
by Staff | Feb 7, 2019 | Legal Due Diligence
The primary source of legal risk affecting the value of real property are documents found in the public record, primarily those listed as exceptions documents in a preliminary title report. In addition, private equitable servitudes, conditions, restrictions, or rules...
by Staff | Jan 30, 2019 | Buying Real Estate, Legal Due Diligence, Title Issues
Preliminary title reports are the source of basic legal due diligence information. The list of exceptions documents included in the preliminary title report references exceptions to title insurance coverage and, as such, may represent circumstances that could impair...
