What Real Estate Attorneys Do

<b>Law Office of Tina Nielsen Amodeo, L.L.C.</b>

"The average lawyer is essentially a mechanic who works with a pen instead of a ball peen hammer."- Robert Schmitt



Law Office of

Tina Nielsen Amodeo, L.L.C.

Real estate attorneys draft and review contracts, prepare deeds and other documents related to property, like mortgages and notes, review title commitments, act as a go between with the bank or lender, title agency, surveyor, township officials, real estate agents and the buyer/seller to negotiate, prepare and arrange all of what is needed when you sell or purchase a home.

As a real estate attorney the most important thing that I do is protect the rights of my clients. I do this by ensuring their contract is drafted or amended to give them all the protections and benefits necessary to obtain a fair bargain and trouble free purchase or sale.

There are times in everyone’s life that they need to obtain professional advice. Although many people can successfully represent themselves in many business matters, even a professional understands that he or she cannot possibly know everything about everything. Even knowing a little about something does not make a person competent to handle all the details of a business matter.

Buying a home is one of the most important events in a person’s life. Whether buying that first home, investing in a rental property or buying that retirement villa to live out the sunset years, buying a house is an exciting yet stressful event. The eager anticipation of moving into a new home can often be turned into fear and worry without having the knowledge of how a real estate transaction works.

Most importantly, when signing an important legal document like a real estate agreement, you are entering a binding agreement that has serious implications. Most agreements of sale do include or should include a clause that gives the people signing the document the right to have an attorney review the contract before it is “set in stone".

Allowing a professional to handle the transaction gives you both peace of mind and the ability to avoid many possible problems. Hiring an experienced real-estate attorney to represent you for the sale or purchase of your home is worth the added expense.

"This noon his mind was occupied with a law question, and I referred him to my companion, who was a lawyer. It appeared that he had been buying land lately (I think it was a hundred acres), but there was probably an incumbrance to it, somebody else claiming to have bought some grass on it for this year. He wished to know to whom the grass belonged, and was told that if the other man could prove that he bought the grass before he, Polis, bought the land, the former could take it, whether the latter knew it or not. To which he only replied, “Strange!” He went over this several times, fairly sat down to it, with his back to a tree, as if he meant to confine us to this topic henceforth; but as he made no headway, only reached the jumping-off place of his wonder at white men’s institutions after each explanation, we let the subject die." - Henry David Thoreau - philosopher, author, naturalist.