Services

Efficiently handle collections and, if necessary, foreclosures of past due payments.

Represent many condominium and homeowner associations, rendering legal advice such as by-law and rule interpretation, by-law changes and rule violation procedures.

Handle condominium formations and draft condominium declarations and by-laws, as well as represent condominium and homeowners associations in lien collections and foreclosures.

Includes drafting contracts for the purchase and sale of large developmental land.

Represent sellers who are delinquent on their mortgage payments and want to short sell their property to avoid deficiency judgments.

Act as an intermediary and draft documents necessary for sellers to qualify for an IRC 1031 tax deferred exchange - both traditional and reverse.

Represent several timeshare associations in Ocean City, and conduct timeshare closings and deed transfers for timeshare owners, as well as the termination of timeshare regimes.

Civil litigation of real estate legal matters.
Efficiently administer estates.

When purchasing a property, a buyer must decide between using a title attorney or using a title agent to conduct the closing. Since this is such a large purchase, the decision is an important one.

Title agents are not attorneys and cannot render legal advice. And yet many legal issues can arise between the buyer and the seller from the time the contract is signed to when closing occurs. If a buyer uses a title agent and a legal issue presents itself just prior to closing, the buyer must hire an attorney to handle the legal issue, likely delaying closing and incurring additional costs. If the buyer had fired a title attorney instead, that attorney could immediately address any legal issues, and resolve them prior tot he closing, without delay.

With 42 years real estate experience, I can handle any legal issues, and do so as part of my flat fee, without an additional charge.

A real estate closing that had it all. A buyer that formed two LLCs to buy leasehold land from an LLC owner, and also bought the land from a partnership, extinguishing the ground rent, to become a fee simple owner, and IRC 1031 exchange, a subscription agreement where the land seller, a partnership, acquired a membership interest int he buyer's LLC in exchange for the land, an EDU allocation agreement, a zoning report from Worchester County, an assignment of contracts, permits and licenses, an assignment of leases and security deposits, a rent toll certificate, a bill of sale, a waiver of a first right of refusal, rental adjustments, ground rent adjustments, UCC Financing Statement filings, and attorney opinion letters to the lender. A process that began on October 8 closed on January 8 for $28,200,000 with a $19,000,000 loan, and the west Ocean City Outlets are under new ownership.