The firm's real estate work runs from single-tenant retail buildings and industrial parcels to multi-property portfolios, on both the buy side and the sell side. A meaningful part of it is untangling deals that a title commitment just stopped.
Transactions
- Purchase and sale agreements, letters of intent, and assignments
- Due diligence: title commitments, surveys, zoning verification, environmental and lien review
- Closings, escrow instructions, and coordination with title companies and lenders
- Land contracts, seller financing, mortgages, and security documents
- Entity-to-entity transfers, deed preparation, and property transfer affidavits
- 1031-adjacent structuring in coordination with your qualified intermediary and CPA
Commercial leasing
The firm drafts and negotiates commercial leases for both landlords and tenants — retail, office, industrial, restaurant, medical, and licensed-use space. Recurring issues include personal guaranties, build-out and delivery obligations, use and exclusivity clauses, CAM reconciliation, holdover terms, assignment on a sale of the business, and what happens when the tenant's license depends on the premises.
Title problems
Old unreleased mortgages, defective legal descriptions, wild deeds, unrecorded interests, tax-foreclosure history, and lingering UCC filings all stop closings. The firm handles the curative work — release demands, corrective instruments, affidavits, and where necessary a quiet title action to clear the record.
If a title commitment came back with exceptions you do not understand, send it over before you renegotiate the deal. Some exceptions are routine. Some mean the seller cannot convey what they promised.
Construction and lien issues
Construction lien claims and defenses, notices of furnishing, sworn statements, lien waivers, and payment disputes on commercial projects — including the deadlines under the Construction Lien Act that are unforgiving when missed.
Common questions
Do I need a lawyer for a commercial closing if I have a title company?
A title company insures title and handles escrow. It does not represent you, negotiate the purchase agreement, or tell you when a contract term is bad for you. On commercial transactions the two roles are different and both matter.
What is a quiet title action?
A lawsuit that asks a court to determine who owns an interest in property and to clear defects from the record — competing deeds, unreleased mortgages, or unknown claimants. It is often the only way to make an unmarketable title insurable again.
Can you fix an old mortgage that was never discharged?
Often yes. The path depends on whether the original lender still exists, whether the debt was paid, and how old the instrument is. Options range from a discharge demand to a statutory affidavit to a quiet title action.
Do you represent landlords or tenants in commercial leases?
Both, in separate matters. The firm will run a conflict check before taking on a lease matter.
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