When you are purchasing or selling real estate it is important to have a lawyer representing your interests in the transaction to ensure it closes properly.  There are many types of real estate transactions.  If you are negotiating an agreement to purchase or sell real estate, you can contact our office to discuss further.

• Real Estate Sales: We provide representation to Sellers of real estate, including, contract review and/or preparation, ordering title reports, surveys, obtaining title clearance documents, preparing closing documents and attending closing.
• Real Estate Purchases: We provide representation to Purchasers of real estate, including, contract review and/or preparation, reviewing inspection matters, reviewing title reports, surveys, lender documents and all closing documents.

Partition lawsuits occur when two or more land owners own real property together and cannot agree on the management or sale or use of the property.  In this case, a property owner that wants to sell the property has a legal right to do that and ask the court for a partition.

These suits are similar to a partition suit but occur when the real estate in dispute is held in a land trust with beneficiaries that control the management of the real estate.  Similar to a partition, the beneficiaries of the land trust or other trust, cannot agree on the management or best use of the property or the sale of the property.   A plaintiff may ask the court under these circumstances, to force the sale or direct some mandatory action.

Eviction suits arise when a tenant’s lease has ended or when a tenant’s lease has been terminated for nonpayment of rent or some other legal basis, and the tenant refuses to deliver possession to the landlord or pay rent.  Eviction suits can be more complicated if there are unknown occupants living at the property that the landlord did not authorize.  Under these circumstances, care must be taken to join the unknown occupants in the suit so any order of possession is enforceable against unknown occupants.