Real estate lawyers represent and assist business entities in a variety of residential and commercial real estate issues including real estate investment opportunities, acquisitions and sales, real estate construction and development, farm and ranch acquisitions and sales, leasing, landlord/tenant matters, land use, zoning, eminent domain, financing, refinancing, mortgages and foreclosures, and other real estate matters.
What Do I Need To Know About Buying A Home?
Buying or selling a home is often the largest and most complicated financial transaction that a person will make in his or her life. If you use a real estate agent, there are many things you …
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Legal Articles
How to Obtain Homeowners Insurance
A home is a big investment both for you as the buyer and for the bank that has your mortgage. Most mortgage providers will not loan you money unless you insure your purchase. Even if you do not have a mortgage on the property, homeowner’s insurance is a good idea. Every homeowner’s insurance policy is different. Typically, a homeowner’s policy insures …
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Buying a Home
Buying a home is a big step in everyone’s life, and for many people, obtaining a mortgage loan in order to buy a home is the most significant debt that they will ever take on. The purchase of a home is not a simple process, but involves a series of complex steps that trigger the application of a variety of different state and federal laws and regulations. Additionally, the sale …
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Fair Housing Planning Guide
This form from the Department of Housing and Urban Development provides information on federal housing and rental discrimination laws.
How To Stop your Neighbor from being a Nuisance
A nuisance is an unreasonable or unlawful use of property which causes interference or harm to another person or to a person’s property. For example, a property owner in a neighborhood may be a nuisance to his neighbors by allowing garbage to accumulate which may cause odors or attract wild animals, playing loud music or other noises which cause a disturbance or by using the …
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How To Fight a Citation from your Homeowners Association
If you live in a planned community you likely have a Homeowner’s Association that governs your community. A Homeowner’s Association functions like a town council, maintaining common areas in the neighborhood such as swimming pools and parks. It is also likely to be in charge of maintaining standards in the community, such as what color you can paint your house, how many …
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How To Prepare to Meet With Your Lawyer
Wondering If You Have Grounds for a Lawsuit?
How To Deal With A Bad Neighbor
How To Get Out of a Bad Commercial Lease
Neighbor Fence Disputes
Home Improvement Gone Wrong
Buying a Home ... Common Contingencies to Purchase Offers
How To Deal With Noisy Neighbors
Adding Your Spouse to the Property Deed
Easements
Adverse Possession
Can The Government Take My Property?
How Do I Find the Right Attorney for My Case?
Real Estate Quitclaim Deeds
What is a REIT?
Changing Title to Real Property
Asbestos in Your Home
How To Become a Section 8 Landlord
Partition Sale of Jointly Held Property
Premises Liability