Real Estate Legal Services

I provide assistance with the following legal problems:

• Foreclosure defense for homeowners;
• Post-foreclosure eviction assistance for former homeowners and tenants;
• Interpreting and amending landlord/tenant agreements and leases;
• Residential landlord/tenant disputes, including evictions, repair requests, lockouts, utility shut offs, security deposit reimbursements, and ending tenancy due to military service or domestic abuse;
• Understanding the home-buying process;
• Negotiating real estate contracts, including purchases, leases, easements, rights-of-way, and mineral interests;
• Disputes regarding executory contracts, including contracts for deed and leases with the option to buy;
• Property tax disputes regarding title, assessment, appraisal, and exemptions/deferrals (limited assistance in Harris County, full assistance in all other counties);
• Contractor disputes (assistance for contractors and homeowners);
• Homeowner association disputes;
• Adverse possession claims;
• Title disputes, including disputes regarding fraudulent liens, creditor liens against homesteads, and partitioning property; and
• Title research and title clearing.