Real Estate Law
Lake County Property Tax Homestead Exemption s
Lake County Property Tax Homestead Exemption s Have you received an amended property tax bill that is double, triple–even ten times what your last bill was? Is Lake County trying to collect on a Lake County Property Tax Homestead Exemption all the way to 2009 or earlier? Do you owe thousands as a result of … Continue reading Lake County Property Tax Homestead Exemption s
Read MoreHome Improvement Fraud in Indiana?
Unfortunately, I have come across a large number of home improvement fraud cases recently with striking similarities. Not only do I find it strange that so many of these home improvement fraud cases are out there, but I find the trend to be alarming. Essentially it goes like this: A homeowner hires a home improvement contractor to … Continue reading Home Improvement Fraud in Indiana?
Read MoreBuying Distressed Real Estate: The Sheriff’s Auction
There are many different forms of distressed real estate available to real estate investors today. This article will focus on one of those forms, the Sheriff’s Auction, and will include the good and bad news about buying property. With the economy slowly returning from the financial woes of the last 5 years, and foreclosures at … Continue reading Buying Distressed Real Estate: The Sheriff’s Auction
Read MoreReal Estate Investment in Today’s Market: A Little Homework, Large Dividends
To stay in the real estate development game today is a challenge that few would have imagined 5 years ago. Demand for new commercial and residential construction was high, financing was readily available, and small and large businesses alike were making deals and making money. What a difference a few years can make. With a … Continue reading Real Estate Investment in Today’s Market: A Little Homework, Large Dividends
Read MoreAttorneys General Seek to Put the Squeeze on Banks and Foreclosure Nationwide
What is referred to as “The Economy” is a set of vast, complex systems that work together to demonstrate the financial pulse of a geographic area, a state, or a nation. It can be measured in a variety of ways, and occasionally can lead to confusing contradictions. This is not the case in our current … Continue reading Attorneys General Seek to Put the Squeeze on Banks and Foreclosure Nationwide
Read MorePorter County Assessor Lauches Online Property Tax Appeals
One of SFT Lawyers‘ largest clients, the Porter County Assessor Jon M. Snyder, recently announced that he would be taking the Porter County Assessor’s office into the 21st Century by allowing taxpayers to file property tax appeals online. (See Post Tribune article, “Porter County Website Gives Taxpayers Option to Appeal Online” 4 Oct. 2011; Northwest … Continue reading Porter County Assessor Lauches Online Property Tax Appeals
Read MoreHebron Fence Causes Major Legal Battle
According to the Indiana Court of Appeals, the malicious construction of fences is actionable in Indiana. According to David Gertz, et al. v. Douglas Estes, et al., No. 64A03-0909-CV-414, Indiana Code Section 36-26-10, et. seq. makes it actionable for a person who suffers pecuniary damages as a result of the construction of a “spite fence”. … Continue reading Hebron Fence Causes Major Legal Battle
Read MoreUPDATE: Canadians Intervene in Fight over Asian Carp
In a story I wrote this past Sunday, Interstate Legal Battle Threatens Great Lakes Compact, so far Ohio and Wisconsin had joined in Michigan’s fight over Asian Carp infiltrating Lake Michigan through Chicago’s waterway system. Now it appears that not only did the Hoosier State throw its hat in the ring, Canadian Provinces have followed … Continue reading UPDATE: Canadians Intervene in Fight over Asian Carp
Read More2 Attorneys Suspended Over Real Estate Deal
Indiana Lawyer Article Two attorneys have been suspended by the Indiana Supreme Court for their representation of a client in a real estate contract in which one of the attorneys had a financial interest.
Read MoreIf Lenders Say ‘The Dog Ate Your Mortgage’
GRETCHEN MORGENSON, New York Times ColumnistFOR decades, when troubled homeowners and banks battled over delinquent mortgages, it wasn’t a contest. Homes went into foreclosure, and lenders took control of the property. On top of that, courts rubber-stamped the array of foreclosure charges that lenders heaped onto borrowers and took banks at their word when the … Continue reading If Lenders Say ‘The Dog Ate Your Mortgage’
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