A real estate attorney provides legal services for real estate transactions, disputes, and structuring: drafting and reviewing contracts, handling closings (required by law in some states), resolving title and boundary issues, structuring entities and deals, navigating regulation, and litigating...
Log in to followTwo small houses, both owned in my own name, both with conventional loans on them. Attorney quoted $1,900 for the whole package: form the LLC, operating agreement, two deeds, plus…
The attorney's website says $350 an hour, then further down it says "flat fee packages from $750," and when I called about a boundary question on a lot I'm looking at, the paraleg…
18 acres, under contract with a due diligence extension I paid $8,000 for. Asked for a rezone to allow attached product at roughly 6 units an acre. Denied 4 to 3 after a hearing w…
My coordination business touches maybe 14 non-financed entity purchases a year, and since the residential reporting rule came in every party at the table has decided it's someone…
I've been reading through the paperwork on a 30-unit single-asset raise a sponsor is putting together, mostly to understand who does what on a deal like that. Securities counsel c…
Duplex, seller's payoff is about $142,000 on a 3.25% note, asking $205,000, willing to carry the difference on a wrap so the underlying loan stays in place. I've been on the tools…
I've been reading closing documents for fun before I buy anything, and the same transaction seems to describe the same function three ways. The commitment comes from a title insur…
A guy I did some framing work for years back is now wholesaling and he told me his attorney does his assignment paperwork for $500 flat, whatever the deal size. He made it sound l…
Eleven units, two states, and I've been running leases off a template pack I paid $199 for. A drafting tool now spits out addenda that read better than what I was writing myself,…
40 acres, contract price $128,000, mostly wooded with about 6 tillable acres. Title commitment came back with two things I don't like. First, a deed out of an estate in 1978 with…