Over 25 years ago, the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) transformed both the legal and physical landscape of this country. Making facilities and opportunities accessible and available to individuals with disabilities was no longer optional for many if not most businesses and commercial property owners. The ADA has no doubt […]

The general framework of a real estate transaction is quite similar from state to state. There are local twists and different names for documents in some cases, but a real estate purchase and closing in one state will follow generally the same main steps as in another. For one thing, […]

No piece of real estate exists in a vacuum, separate from all over property. When multiple tracts of land sit near each other, sometimes one owner will want to use a neighbor’s land in some way. For example, perhaps the only access to the main road from Lot A is […]

Some residential communities in resort areas are in an ongoing battle with local officials over what they see as illegal nightly rentals of vacant homes. It’s a problem that arises frequently in a state like Florida where resort districts and residential retirement complexes exist pretty much alongside each other. In […]

As a member of your condominium association board, are you ready to levy a special assessment of thousands of dollars per unit owner? Are your owners prepared to be hit with such a huge liability? If your condo is over 75-feet tall, built before 1994, and lacking fire sprinklers, those […]

Thank you Bruce McDonald, Preston Forshee, Jay Fraiser, and Katie Woods for serving at the Waterfront Rescue Mission today. We are thankful to play a small role in such as awesome organization!

Community association board members in Florida have many legal and fiduciary obligations to the association and property owners. There are also corresponding consequences when those obligations are not met or a board member engages in misconduct. But now there are even more responsibilities and potential civil and criminal liability under […]

Most institutional lenders obtain a loan title policy (paid for by the borrower) when lending money secured by real property.  The loan title policy amount is typically the amount of the original principal balance of the loan.  When that lender or its assignee forecloses and takes title by a certificate […]

  Levying fines against an owner for a violation of the HOA’s governing documents can be the most difficult and controversial decision that a sitting Board of Directors (“Board”) will have to make.  The alleged violations at issue are often times disputed and regularly lead to litigation.  So, not only […]

Check out this article from Pensacola News Journal: Florida Supreme Court won’t intervene in Fish House lawsuit legal fee issue http://www.pnj.com/story/news/2017/07/13/florida-supreme-court-wont-intervene-fish-house-lawsuit-legal-fee-issue/477498001/