You set out with an idea. You raised funding to nourish it and built a team to drive it to market. At an early point in your growth you arrive at a milestone: the need for more space. It is an affirming mark of your progress but, it brings with it a complex set of […]
The Importance of Understanding Lease Terms
In a recent matter we were engaged by a commercial property owner to resolve an issue with one of her tenants. Our client owns an office building on a main street with an attached small warehouse. At the time, the warehouse space was being used as a commercial bakery by one of the town’s well […]
Victory in Residential Mortgage Foreclosure Case in Alameda County Superior Court
The residential mortgage foreclosure crisis continues to grind onward across California resulting in the eviction of thousands of Californians from their homes. Even as numerous banks, including the largest in the United States, have paid billions of dollars in fines and penalties for their unlawful actions, they relentlessly pursue unlawful foreclosures and evictions from the […]
Partition: How Co-Owners Can Part Ways
Co-owners of real property eventually will want to stop being co-owners, because of divorce, because business partners can’t get along, because relatives inherit real property together with most wanting nothing to do with the property, or simply because they just don’t want to continue owning property with others. However, if one co-owner won’t agree to sell […]