Trusted Real Estate Counsel Tailored to Your Needs
Real estate can involve a myriad of issues including disputes between multiple owners, title defects, navigating statutory and regulatory compliance, and the determination and resolution of duties, rights, and obligations. We address these and other challenges with clear advice, careful drafting, and practical and efficient resolutions.
Real Estate Services
Real estate matters often involve complicated legal concepts and requirements and substantial financial interests. Every property owner, or potential property owner, should have an attorney on their team of advisors who provides sound legal advice and is experienced, knowledgeable, and capable of assessing risks and alternatives. We have assisted clients in residential and commercial real estate matters including:
Commercial leasing, including lease negotiation and drafting, exercising renewal options, CAM disputes
Pursuing warranty claims
Contract interpretation, review and negotiation
Ownership and titling
Property management, vendor, and service agreements
Partition actions, including litigation and avoidance
Disputes between multiple owners
Real estate related business and entity considerations
Community Associations
Community association law is a unique and complex specialty within real estate law. Homeowners’ associations, condominium associations, and cooperative associations can face legal issues that involve enforcing compliance with statutory mandates and governing documents, compliance with fair housing laws, debt collection, local code and regulatory compliance, proper recordkeeping, and financial mismanagement. A community association’s board of directors must have a professional, knowledgeable, and experienced team of advisors to ensure the efficient, financially responsible, and legal compliant operation of the community association. As fractional legal counsel to small and large community associations, self-managed and with property managers (also called “community association managers”), we advise and represent community associations in matters involving:
Board governance, duties and obligations
Interpretation and amendment of governing documents, e.g., declarations, bylaws, rules, resolutions, etc.
Assessment collection and lien enforcement
Covenant enforcement
Architectural control and use restriction compliance
Negotiation and review of construction contracts
Vendor, management, service contracts
Insurance, property damage
Fair housing, including reasonable accommodation, reasonable modification, and harassment
Meeting procedures, elections, recordkeeping, and records requests
Dispute avoidance, negotiation, mediation, and litigation
Board member education
Effective legal counsel not only timely and appropriately responds after an issue arises, but also proactively assists boards of directors in governing with knowledge and confidence, developing legally sound policies and procedures, making informed decisions, and reducing or eliminating avoidable risk before it results in a lawsuit or claim against the community association. We provide board member education for community associations we do not represent as well.
We would love to become a part of your community association’s team of advisors.
