A clear title is important when it comes to buying, selling or refinancing real estate. Disputes over property ownership, liens or errors in title records can inspire legal complications that must be resolved before a transaction can proceed. Title disputes may arise...
A lease gives a tenant the right to occupy a residential unit. They have the right to use the space so long as they pay rent as agreed in their lease. Sometimes, landlords decide to remove tenants from a property before the lease actually ends. To do so, they must...
Foreclosure is the process by which the lender reclaims your home. If you miss numerous payments in a row, they can start the foreclosure process, take possession of your house and sell it to a third party. This is how lenders protect their investment, hoping to...
Buying a home is a big investment, perhaps one of the biggest you will have made to date. Therefore you want to do all you can to ensure it goes smoothly and you spend your money wisely. One such measure is adding contingency clauses to the contract. These are clauses...
Nobody wants to buy a property with title issues due to the risk of loss or unintended financial consequences. Therefore, it’s crucial to ensure you have a clear title when selling your home. A clear title means you have full ownership of the property, and that there...
Owning land or property is many people’s biggest dream, but sometimes disputes over title arise. When that happens, Texas law allows you to file what is known as a “trespass to try title action” to determine who owns the property. Finding out that someone else is...
We pride ourselves on individual freedoms and protections from the government here. However, even in Texas, the United State’s Constitution allows the government to take our property through eminent domain. And, we get very little notice of these actions before they...
No one wants to go through a foreclosure. But sometimes the circumstances mean that it’s the only option available to you. When it happens, you need to understand what can happen so that you don’t get surprised. A deficiency judgment is one of those surprises which...
When people in Texas start a search for a new house, they have many different things that they both want and need in the new house. They may want a certain number of bedrooms, a certain size house, a certain sized yard, a house in a certain school district, a good...
2020 and 2021 have not been kind years financially to many in Texas. Some people in Texas were furloughed for months only to be brought back to work at reduced wages, if they were able to return to the workplace at all. Some people were simply laid off through no...