There appears to me much confusion surrounding the consequences for buyers and sellers when a closing date specified in an earnest money contract for real property passes without performance.The most common contract used for the sale of residential property in Texas is the TREC promulgated One to Four Family Residential Contract (Resale). Paragraph 9 A […]
Category: Real Estate Law
Fence Issues in Residential Neighborhoods
Our law firm receives a multitude of calls about fence issues in subdivisions and urban areas. This post will answer a handful of very basic questions and then discuss the more complicated issues of extended encroachment in the context of adverse possession.First, the following are some basics about fences in Texas: If a fence is […]
Constructive Trusts as an Equitable Remedy
Our law firm routinely receives calls from prospective clients complaining that they gave someone money to buy a property and were supposed to receive their money back plus a return at the sale of the property. The prospective clients go on to elaborate that there was no written agreement and their name is nowhere on […]
Help! I am Still on the Mortgage
Our law firm commonly gets requests from people complaining that they are still listed on the mortgage and therefore still financially liable for the mortgage payments even after they no longer have any practical connection to the property. These situations usually arise in the context of a previous marriage or previous relationship where people purchased […]