Real Estate & Property Law

Maintaining Control During a Home Renovation Project
Perhaps the hardest part of dealing with a home renovation project for a homeowner is giving up control of his home. The homeowner has to really have faith in the contractor because she is turning her life upside down and allowing someone else to control her environment...

Homeowner Permitted to Operate a Haunted House in Residential District to Raise Money for Charity
The Georgia Supreme Court let stand the decision below which dismissed the City?s request for injunctive relief to prevent the homeowner from operating a haunted house to raise money for charity on his property, since by the time the case got to the Court to review, the homeowner had ceased the operation...

Obama's Homeowner Affordability and Stability Initiative
The President announced and Treasury published details of a new Homeowner Affordability and Stability Initiative today. The press is struggling to get the details correct. Here is the basis of the Initiative...

TGIS: Thank God It's Schadenfreude! (173)
This week's joy in the misfortune of others comes courtesy of the Associated Press (from Wednesday, June 25; link good at time of posting): Norwalk police said they nabbed a burglary suspect after he broke out in tears when the homeowner caught him...

Foreclosing Lender Claims Mortgage Is Nine Years In Arrears; 68-Year Old Homeowner Says "Prove It!" As Bank Admits It Can't Find The Promissory Note
In Decatur, Georgia, The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports: [C]itigroup and Wells Fargo say [68-year old Zella Mae] Green has failed miserably as a homeowner and is nine years behind on her payments...

Featured Link - HelpInsure.com
Texans have had the highest homeowner insurance rates in the country for years. And with our Republican government's pro-business priorities, that probably won't change anytime soon...

Maintaining the Enforceabiltiy of Fines in Your Commnity
The levying of fines against rule-breakers in the community is an effective tactic used by homeowner associations to curb misbehavior and to maintain a harmonious appearance within the community...

Maintaining the Enforceability of Fines in Your Community
The levying of fines against rule-breakers in the community is an effective tactic used by homeowner associations to curb misbehavior and to maintain a harmonious appearance within the community...

Homeowner vs. Lender: No Longer An Automatic Win for Lender
We talked a few weeks ago about some attorneys that were getting creative with legal defenses to help protect their homeowner clients from foreclosure by their lenders. It seems this is a practice that won't be going away anytime soon...

Bank of America Faces Homeowner Class Action For Withholding Federal Bailout Funds
Bank of America Faces Homeowner Class Action

Indymac
Faces Homeowner Class Action over Foreclosures

Two Teens Shot At
Homeowner to pay undisclosed settlement in endangerment lawsuit.

Housing Buyer Discrimination
White homeowner settles $30,000 buyer-discrimination lawsuit.

Cipro
The FDA is seeking to add black box warnings of the risk of tendon rupture associated with Cipro and Levaquin. The ruptures can involve Achilles tendon, shoulder, hand, bicep or thumb tendons, and is especially increased in patients older than 60, or people who have received kidney, heart or lung transplants, as well as people on steroid therapy...