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Transferring Ownership of Property. Hire an attorney to assist you in preparing the right documents ...
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Buying a Home with Environmental Issues. Do not close on the property (commercial, industrial or ...
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Tenant Moves out Before the Lease Ends: Your lease agreement should contain a paragraph that ...
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Estate Planning: What is Small Estate? But just because you have designated beneficiaries for most ...
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Should You Sue Seller for Faulty Sewer Line? The key, in most cases, is whether ...
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Selling a Home with Unpermited Work: Seek advice on your options and what you’ll need ...
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Joint Ownership of a Home after a Divorce: Look to the divorce decree and see ...
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Homeowners Insurance Coverage and Claims: Insurance coverage is increasingly expensive and complicated. By Ilyce Glink ...
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Lien on a Property after Death: it’s unlikely that any liens could or would attach ...
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Estate Planning: Transferring Your Property. Make sure you have a will in place or have ...
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Neighbors Gutter Drains on My Property. All houses and communities have problems. You can’t ignore ...
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Divorce, Death and Joint Tenancy. The divorce decree may control ownership and state the sole ...
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Can you sue your homeowners association? The damage needs to be great enough to want ...
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Transferring Property After Death: Sometimes you have to take a step back and take an ...
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There are ways to take care of reducing noise from upstairs neighbors, but some of ...
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Responsibility of Maintaining Retaining Wall. Make sure the agreement notes that the neighbor is using ...
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A 1031 exchange is a mechanism under Section 1031 of the Internal Revenue Code. It ...
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Adding Property to Living Trust. A living trust is a great way to easily transfer ...
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Taxes on a Sale of Inherited Property. You need to know the cost of the ...
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Estate Planning: Property in Trust. We’ve received some questions about trust issues that might be ...
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Using Retirement Savings to Pay Off Mortgage: In general, it’s almost never a good idea ...
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Understanding a Joint Bank Account: It is an account where each of the owners in ...
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Release of Mortgage Document has Wrong Name. We suspect that the information on the release ...
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Understanding joint property ownership: Joint Tenants with Rights of Survivorship vs Tenants in Common By ...
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When to Change Your Living Trust? if you’re satisfied with your choice of trustee and ...
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Tax Implications for Selling Foreign Property. You will have to figure out if the real ...
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Risks when Transferring Property to Family. Be very careful giving up part or total ownership ...
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What is a Reserve Study? These studies detail the many components of an association building’s ...
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Home Fraud Protection or Scam: Be vigilant when you assess these offers, since many may ...
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Real Estate Tips for Buyers and Sellers: Don't be afraid to hire professionals to help ...
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Benefits of Automatic Water Shut-off Valves: installing water sensors and other modern home water sensing ...
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Multiple Purchase Offers: Do we have any recourse and secondly how do we protect ourselves ...
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Tax Implications for Splitting Inherited Money: When it comes to estate taxes, the giver of ...
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Aesthetic Changes: Can a homeowners association force me to replace a perfectly good roof because ...
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Governing Documents Define Common Area: Understand what the specific provisions in the governing documents say ...
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So the best advice we can give our readers is this. If they intend on ...
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How to prevent water infiltration. Keeping your basement dry is one of the most important ...
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How to Remove a Name from the Mortgage. Usually the easiest way to get a ...
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Read Legal Documents Before Signing: If you don’t understand them, ask questions. By Ilyce Glink ...
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The Condition Use of the Quit Claim Deed.  By Ilyce Glink and Samuel J. Tamkin ...
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Homeowner Association Fees: Homeowners associations have great latitude and discretion in running the associations. By ...
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Leaving real estate to children, you’re generally far better off inheriting property than using a ...
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What to expect when you search for your home's title online. Homeowners should be aware ...
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Inheriting a Property in Pennsylvania. That state has some unusual rules that directly affect our ...
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Sell the Farm or Lease the Land. The land could be rented and they could ...
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Real Estate and Documents: Keeping these documents well-organized in the cloud will serve you well ...
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Buying a Home As-Is. If the home inspector finds significant or material issue with the ...
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Your Home Inspector Missed Something. We highly recommend buyers go to their own home inspection ...
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Avoid Probate with a Living Trust: As the owner of the trust and the trustee, ...
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Homeowners insurance companies can issue an endorsement to a condominium policy which is designed to ...
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Can a Buyer Cancel Purchase Agreement? When you sign a purchase agreement, you are contractually ...
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Review and Update Your Homeowners Insurance: The policy should be in the name of the ...
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Who is Responsible for Private Road Maintenance? The responsibility of rules and maintenance of the ...
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Condo Associations Should Have How Much in Reserves? More buildings should have more in reserves ...
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Buying a House with Open Permits: As you might have gathered from your open permit ...
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Transferring property into a living trust: Have an attorney prepare a deed of conveyance to ...
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Putting Your Child's Name on a Property -We don’t think parents should put real estate ...
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This week’s column features thoughts, comments and suggestions from our readers about real estate and ...
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Consider Non-Family Member for End-of-Life Agent. A business person who can read my end-of-life wishes ...
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Managing Parents Real Estate Portfolio. The right answer starts with a deep conversation with parents ...
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Gift Tax on Money Acquired by Elder Abuse. When a parent gifts money to children ...
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Selling Combined Lots? What are the Tax Implications. Figuring out the Cost Basis and Capital ...
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Neighbor dispute about shared private road. Private roads are governed by easement agreements. An easement ...
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Estate Planning: Living Trust or LLC for properties. Its time to go over your estate ...
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Buying a home without a buyer's agent. A mistake made when buying a home could ...
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Understanding the cost basis of a home. Rental property vs primary residence effects the taxes ...
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Error in title documents for condo. Make sure that you are looking at the document ...
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By Ilyce Glink and Samuel J. Tamkin Q: I divorced my husband two years ago ...
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By Ilyce Glink and Samuel J. Tamkin Q: My mother put me on the deed ...
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When dealing with an Association, you should understand the rules and get involved. By Ilyce ...
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Family Dynamics and Estate Planning: Parents should discuss their finances and any arrangements they’ve made ...
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When can a seller back out of a contract. Almost none contain clauses that discuss ...
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Moving costs seniors should consider. They will need to hire extra hands to help them ...
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Adding a house into a trust. You need to prepare a deed to transfer the ...
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Dividing an inherited property. How do you split a property when one person gets 80 ...
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Ideas to consider when deciding to declutter a home. Whether it is yours or someone ...
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Why sellers might waive home inspection. There are valid reasons not to permit an inspection ...
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Can a landlord terminate a lease? The answers to your questions can be found in ...
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The dangers of overpaying for property; buyers should think about if they buy homes with ...
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Handling an unsolicited low offer. The listing broker should tell you that and give you ...
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Should seniors buy or rent: You should consider how you will age in your home ...
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Selling while home prices are high. If you’re tired of living in your home, or ...
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How can you find out if you are listed on a trust: if you are ...
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What documents do you get when you payoff a mortgage: a release of mortgage and ...
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Deciding between buying vs renting a home comes down to financial considerations and personal preferences, ...
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The validity of a power of attorney remains until the principal dies. Once the principal ...
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Get your proof ready if you are suing a seller for non disclosure of a ...
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Getting rid of a timeshare can be a nightmare and the expenses drag you down ...
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My home inspector missed problems with the home I just purchased. Can I sue the ...
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What should you consider when selling home to a developer? Is price the only factor? ...
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Real estate agent cancels listing agreement against my wishes. Can she do that? Do I ...
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Is this a housing bubble or is it just a housing shortage? The US is ...
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If you inherited the family home, you need to know if you're going to be ...
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Should you fix mistake from closing or keep extra land that was included in the ...
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There is a shortage of homes for sale in the United States of up to ...
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A cash offer for a home means a buyer either has the money in the ...
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The benefits of multigenerational housing are there but you need to set it up carefully ...
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If you die without a will, you lose control over who will get your money ...
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Seller failed to fix septic system that failed inspection after buyer closed on the home ...
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