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Hot Trend: HOAs Across the Country Being Hung Out To Dry When it Comes to Clotheslines Bans

Homeowners Associations (“HOA”) in many states, including Georgia, are given broad discretion in their decision-making processes. This broad discretion has frequently led to many HOAs coming up with strict and sometimes silly rules. Consider the ban against clotheslines. For years…

Friends Who Overstay Their Welcome. Now What?

Landlord Tenant

Have you ever wondered what would happen if you let a friend stay in a home you own “just until [he] can find another place,” and several months later that person is still there? The answer depends on whether or…

Landlords and the Disabled. Their Rights, Your Duties

Landlord Tenant

Landlords have a lot of duties and responsibilities towards their tenants. One of them is the duty to comply with the Fair Housing Act when it comes to tenants with disabilities. The Fair Housing Act The Fair Housing Act is…

And…Sold! For Unpaid Taxes. Can You Get Your House Back?

Foreclosure Real Property

Not many people like paying their attorney, but nobody like paying taxes. Yet here in Georgia, our local government runs on property taxes. That is the main reason why Georgia law imposes severe penalties for failing to pay them. In…

Easing Into it: The Basics of Easements

Easements Real Property

What do you call it when you do not own a specific parcel of private property, and you don’t occupy it, nor do you have the right to possess it, but nevertheless you can use and enjoy it? Give up?…

A Parting of the Ways: General Concepts of a Partition Action in Real Estate Law

Real Estate Law

When a marriage falls apart you get divorced. When business partners fall out, they dissolve the partnership. But what happens when two or more people who own the same piece of property want to split up and go their separate…

If You Just Bought a House at Tax Foreclosure, Here’s Some Information About of Georgia’s Quiet Title Laws

Real Estate Law

Buying foreclosed tax-sale residential property can seem like a “get rich quick” scheme. You think all you have to do is buy real estate at a tax sale for the amount of unpaid taxes (plus a few other costs), and…

Whose on First? A Brief Explanation of the Parties Involved in Most Home Loan Transactions and Foreclosures

Foreclosure

Sometimes it gets confusing figuring out who’s who in real estate transactions. So in today’s post, we thought we would give you a brief lineup of the players involved in most home loan or foreclosure situations. Parties in a Home…

Two Things That May Help You Avoid Foreclosure

Foreclosure

Foreclosures in Georgia move pretty quickly. Because Georgia is a “nonjudicial” foreclosure state, the vast majority of foreclosures are processed, you guessed it, non-judicially. In other words, the entire process is handled without the need to go to court. Essentially,…

Just How is “Just Compensation” Determined in an Eminent Domain Proceeding?

Real Estate Law

You might not mind taking “the fifth,” but not too many people are happy when the Fifth Amendment’s Taking Clause applies to them. As you may know, the United States Constitution prevents the government from taking private property for public…

Should I Challenge an Assessment of my Property?

Real Estate Law

A property assessment provides an approximation of the value of your property in order to estimate property taxes. This is known as an “appraised value.” The County Assessor is typically responsible for conducting the assessment. Unlike an appraisal, which is…

Georgia’s Eviction Notice Procedures

Eviction

Georgia law authorizes landlords to evict a tenant for failure to pay rent in a timely manner. Before an eviction lawsuit is initiated, the landlord must provide notice to the tenant that rent is due and the tenant must fail…

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Hot Trend: HOAs Across the Country Being Hung Out To Dry When it Comes to Clotheslines Bans

Friends Who Overstay Their Welcome. Now What?

Landlords and the Disabled. Their Rights, Your Duties

And…Sold! For Unpaid Taxes. Can You Get Your House Back?

Easing Into it: The Basics of Easements

A Parting of the Ways: General Concepts of a Partition Action in Real Estate Law

If You Just Bought a House at Tax Foreclosure, Here’s Some Information About of Georgia’s Quiet Title Laws

Whose on First? A Brief Explanation of the Parties Involved in Most Home Loan Transactions and Foreclosures

Two Things That May Help You Avoid Foreclosure

Just How is “Just Compensation” Determined in an Eminent Domain Proceeding?

Should I Challenge an Assessment of my Property?

Georgia’s Eviction Notice Procedures

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