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How using a Real-Estate Attorney can give you the upper hand in your real estate transactions. BUYING LEGAL

Buying legal | What a Real Estate Attorney Can Do For You!

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How using a Real-Estate Attorney can give you the upper hand in your real estate transactions.

BUYING LEGAL

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What Can a Real Estate Attorney Do?

Whether you are selling or purchasing real property, a real estate attorney can help you with the process.

Before there were real estate brokers, sellers’ brokers, buyers’ brokers, transactional brokers, mortgage brokers and title insurance companies, all real estate transactions were handled by attorneys.

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What Can a Real Estate Attorney Do?

Real estate attorneys can assist in a number of property legal matters.

As Real estate attorney can represent homeowners in court who are facing foreclosure, advises clients in great depth on short sales, strategic defaults, deed in lieu and which course of action is best for the clients’ family.

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WHAT CAN A REAL ESTATE ATTORNEY DO? Because legal matters are very serious, your average brokers cannot give counsel on mortgage foreclosures, contract law, financing, or any other legal subjects that effect real estate transactions.

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What Can a Real Estate Attorney Do?

Most real estate brokers do not represent the interests of their customers, because they are operating as “transactional brokers”.

Their main purpose is to “facilitate the sale”, and have no fiduciary responsibility to their customers.

When hiring a real estate attorney, they are required to represents the client’s interest, and the client’s interest only, as required by law.

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WHAT CAN A REAL ESTATE ATTORNEY DO? If you are thinking about selling your home, hiring a lawyer is the best way to protect your interests. Unlike a broker, your lawyer will never make you sign away your rights.

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