Legal

April 20, 2009

  • Coinciding Settlements Clauses – Funding Issues

    People who are selling their home in order to buy another frequently put a “coinciding settlements” clause into their contract offer on the new home. The purpose of this is usually twofold. In this article, we discuss the first purpose which is to use funds from the old home to pay for the new one. [...]

March 18, 2009

  • Helpful Info On Categories Of Listing Contracts

    As a soon-to-be home seller, you should be aware of the forms of listing contracts that are available. Listing contracts refer to the agreement between you and a professional real estate broker. This agreement gives the real estate broker the go-ahead to represent you in the process of selling your home. There [...]

February 1, 2009

  • Self Supporting Artists Seeking Information About Bankruptcy

    I am a self supporting artist and have been a professional stone carving artist for over thirty five years. I have lived through a time in history, the first time in history, that artists have been able to make a living from their art. Not that artists did not make a living before [...]

November 20, 2008

  • Benefits of Using a Real Estate Lawyer

    The purchase or sale of real estate involve a number of stages which requires legal assistance and herein comes in the role of the real estate lawyers.
    Before the real estate market became such a dynamic market, conventionally only one lawyer used to be present who supervised the closing of the sale. However, with the changing [...]

July 17, 2008

  • Free Or Paid Background Checks?

    Here is a piece of content I wrote for you guys as a comment to my CIS TODAY and NEWEEK articles. I get a lot of questions about this all the time so I though I would rather shoot up a small post here instead of replying individually to all of you.
    When I am over [...]

June 18, 2008

  • Basics You Need To Know About Residential Mortgage Loans

    Most loans are unprotected. The amount borrowed against your credit card is an unsecured loan. The individual loan granted by someone is an unprotected loan. The student loan you got for your college schooling is unprotected loan.
    However, there are loans that require a kind of security. This security is a valuable [...]

June 8, 2007

  • Understanding the Settlement Statement

    After all you hard work you are now about to complete your home selling process. Before you hand over the keys to the home, though, there are just a few more steps you need to complete. One document you and your buyer will be dealing with during the home closing is the settlement statement (also [...]