Renting a residential property you own to other people can be a lucrative source of mostly passive income. Unfortunately, it can also be a big source of liability, expense and hard work. If you wind up with the wrong tenants in your building, they could cause extreme...
Selling an investment in commercial real estate, even more than selling your own house, can benefit from a thoughtful game plan. Having a well-thought-out schedule of how to prepare and how to execute can minimize headaches and maximize return on investment.Making...
If you’ve closed on a home purchase, you know you’re confronted with a blizzard of approvals, waivers and fees. You can be forgiven for shrugging off at least a few of these as “mere technicalities.”But in commercial real estate, title insurance definitely matters....
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When your business faces a dispute, you may dread the anticipated time, energy and resources to spend on reaching a resolution. Fortunately, a contract dispute, partnership disagreement and more do not always have to resort to litigation.Many California businesses...
In the course of our real estate law practice, we often are asked to help a homeowner "add someone to title." At other times, we encounter a prospective client that has already "added someone to title." While preparing and recording the paperwork to do this is...
As with running any business, renting property as a landlord inherently exposes you to a certain level of risk. Right or wrong, our current society has become increasingly litigious. This means that everyone has to be more aware of issues surrounding liability to...
There are many benefits to forming a limited liability corporation, or LLC. An LLC is more formal than a sole proprietorship or a partnership – in which the owners want to operate a small, closely-held business – yet less formal than a corporation in which a large...