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Complexity In A Real Estate Contract = Unfair Burden
In 15 years of practice, I have become dismayed with the amount of time, energy, and expense the property owners have to go through to get anything done. It is always smart to do one’s due diligence before purchasing property. Many people only buy two or three...
Filing Or Defending A Lawsuit Over A Real Estate Deal
When does it make sense to file or defend a lawsuit? That is a deceptively simple question. Many people who aren’t attorneys—including myself before I passed the bar—thought that as long as someone has the facts and the law on their side they should just slap a...
Importance Of Land Surveys
Today I’m going to talk about some of the reasons why real property surveys are often so crucial. Now, like legal services, professional surveys typically do not come cheaply. Surveyors have to obtain education and training to become licensed and maintain their...
Real Estate Easements: A Question About Access
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...
Commercial Leases In Real Estate
Today, we need to talk about commercial leases. This is a very interesting topic, especially in a situation where the governor of your state may have decided to just close all the businesses and send everybody home. Now, whether this is legal for them to do or not,...
Boundary Line Disputes In Real Estate
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 they can deal...
Landlord Tenant Commercial Contracts
I would like to talk a little bit today about contracts. We have a lot of contracts that we interpret. Some of the big ones just drive me crazy, because contracts are usually between two non-lawyers. So, you have to ask yourself, why are these contracts written for...
Restrictions on Property Use
People understand that if they own property, they have certain property rights, but there are restrictions on property use and this can impact property value. You may think you have the right to do something on your property, but then comes a neighbor, and HOA, or a...
The Litigation Process
Today, we're gonna hit a pretty interesting topic. For those of you that are following the Timely Contract series, what you'll notice is that we do the proper research and then we give you the opinion in writing, and we devise the contracts that you want to use. And...
The Importance of Recording Real Property Documents
What I'm going to be talking about today is how crucial it is to record documents that affect real property. And so to do that, and to illustrate why it's so important, I'm going to tell a story here. And so I want you to use your imagination as I expound on some of...
Conflict of Interest With Real Estate Attorneys
Attorneys are required to keep your secrets. And so there are rules. And these are confidentiality rules. Basically, they say that if you tell anything to your attorney, they can't tell it to anybody else, unless you authorize it. Today, on this article, we'll be...
Real Estate Lot Consolidation
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 a long-term...