#Eviction laws Connecticut

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Your Ultimate Guide to Handling Eviction Laws in Connecticut

Struggling with eviction issues in Connecticut? Our detailed blog covers everything you need to know about eviction laws, rights, and processes in 2024. From understanding the eviction process to handling legal complexities, get expert insights to navigate eviction challenges effectively. Whether you're a landlord or tenant, empower yourself with knowledge and guidance to tackle eviction with confidence. Schedule a free consultation with our team for personalized support today! Read more!

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The Pros and Cons of Investing in multifamily Real Estate: Is It Right for You?

Investing in real estate has always been a popular way to build wealth and generate passive income. One type of real estate investment that has gained popularity in recent years is multifamily properties. Multifamily properties are buildings that contain multiple residential units, such as apartment complexes, townhouses, and duplexes. This blog will shed light on the pros and cons of investing in multifamily real estate and help you determine if it's the right investment for you.

Pros:

Steady Income Stream: The biggest advantage of investing in Multifamily building for sale in New Jersey is the potential for a steady income stream. With multiple units, you can collect rent from multiple tenants, which provides a more consistent cash flow than investing in single-family homes.

Diversification: Owning a multifamily property diversifies your real estate portfolio. Instead of investing all your money in one property, you can spread your investment across multiple units, reducing the risk of losing all your money in one fell swoop.

Economies of Scale: Multifamily properties benefit from economies of scale. When you have multiple units in one property, you can negotiate better deals with service providers such as landscaping, maintenance, and utilities. Additionally, you can spread the costs of repairs and upgrades across multiple units, reducing the overall expenses per unit.

Appreciation: Multifamily properties tend to appreciate at a higher rate than single-family homes. With multiple units, you can generate more rental income, which increases the property's overall value.

Cons:

Higher Upfront Costs: Investing in a multifamily property requires a significant upfront investment. You will need to have a larger down payment, and the property may require more maintenance and repairs than a single-family home.

Tenant Turnover: With multiple units, you have multiple tenants, which means more turnover. This can lead to more time and money spent on advertising, screening tenants, and preparing units for new renters.

Legal Issues: As a landlord of a multifamily property, you are subject to more regulations and laws than a single-family home. You may need to obtain specific licenses, provide additional safety measures, and follow specific eviction procedures.

Management: Managing a multifamily property requires more time and effort than a single-family home. You will need to handle more tenant complaints, repairs, and maintenance requests.

Is It Right for You?

Investing in a Multifamily building for sale in Connecticut can be a lucrative investment opportunity, but it's not for everyone. If you have a significant amount of money to invest, don't mind the added responsibilities of managing a property, and are willing to take on the additional legal and regulatory requirements, then a multifamily property may be the right investment for you. However, if you are looking for a more passive investment with lower upfront costs and management responsibilities, then you may want to consider other real estate investment options. Ultimately, the decision to invest in multifamily real estate should be based on your financial goals, risk tolerance, and willingness to take on additional responsibilities.

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Understanding the Eviction Process in Connecticut: A Comprehensive Review

In the real estate market, landlords typically have the daunting task of dealing with problematic or non-compliant tenants. The eviction process, though inevitable under such circumstances, can be particularly challenging. The Connecticut landlord-tenant law outlines the procedures to follow when removing a tenant from a property. Comprehending this process is not only crucial but also beneficial for tenants and landlords.

On various occasions, landlords find themselves needing to evict tenants for breaching rental agreements. This is where Tenant eviction assistance in Connecticut is enormously valuable. With intricate legal requirements and temporary moratoriums due to the COVID-19 pandemic, eviction processes can become complicated quickly. Therefore, the need for tenant eviction assistance cannot be underestimated. Under Connecticut law, a landlord must have a legitimate reason for eviction, such as non-payment of rent or property damage. Once they have this, a 'Notice to Quit' is served to the tenant outlining the reasons for eviction.

The tenant is then given three to five days to vacate the premises or correct their breach. If the tenant fails to take necessary action, the landlord may proceed by filing a 'Summons and Complaint' to the housing court. The court sends a hearing date, and if the tenant does not show up, a 'default judgment' is made in favor of the landlord. If the tenant contests the eviction, a trial occurs where both parties must present their cases.

However, navigating through these legal obligations can be overwhelming, leading to the establishment of tenant eviction assistance programs in Connecticut. These offer legal aid to ensure tenants fully comprehend the eviction process and know their rights. They also provide landlords with resources to manage eviction cases legally and efficiently. In conclusion, the eviction process in Connecticut is designed to ensure fairness for both landlords and tenants. Knowing one's rights and responsibilities, coupled with the right assistance, can guarantee a smooth eviction process when necessary. Remember, while eviction is sometimes inevitable, understanding the process can help protect all parties involved.

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The New Republican Supreme Court

The U.S. Supreme Court won’t block a Texas law that allows private individuals to sue to enforce a ban on abortion after about six weeks of pregnancy – before many women are even aware they’re pregnant. The law went into effect Wednesday, September 1. 

It’s the most restrictive abortion law in the country, imposing a huge burden on women without the means or money to travel to another state where later abortions are legal.

It’s also a sign that the Republican-appointed justices, who now hold six of nine seats on the Court, are ready to overturn the Court’s 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade, striking down anti-abortion laws across the nation as violating a woman’s right to privacy under the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution.

Last week the Court held that Biden’s moratorium on evictions was illegal. A few days before, it refused to stay a lower court decision that people seeking asylum at the southern border must remain in Mexico until their cases are heard -- often subjecting them to great hardship or violence.

What links these cases? Cruelty toward the powerless.

I remember a very different Supreme Court which I had the honor of arguing cases before almost fifty years ago. It embodied the idea that the fundamental role of the Court is to balance the scales in favor of those who are powerless. The other two branches of government cannot be relied on to do this.

Even Nixon appointees Harry Blackmun, Lewis Powell, and Warren Burger understood that role. Blackmun wrote the Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade, and Powell and Burger joined him, as did four Democratic appointees to the Court – William O. Douglas, Thurgood Marshall, William Brennan, and Potter Stewart.

The cases I argued were insignificant. I was a rookie in the Justice Department who was given either sure winners or sure losers to argue. But I vividly recall Douglas, who had recently suffered a stroke and was in obvious discomfort, looking sharply at me as I made my arguments.

I was awed. Here was the justice who wrote the 1965 decision in Griswold v. Connecticut, finding that a constitutional right to privacy forbids states from banning contraception. The man who argued the Vietnam war was illegal and issued an order that temporarily blocked sending Army reservists to Vietnam. The justice who wrote in the 1972 case Sierra Club v. Morton that any part of nature feeling the destructive pressure of modern technology should have standing to sue in court – including rivers, lakes, trees and even the air – because if corporations (which are legal fictions) have standing, shouldn’t the natural world?

Sitting not far away from him was Thurgood Marshall – who succeeded in having the Supreme Court declare segregated public schools unconstitutional in the landmark 1954 case Brown v. Board of Education, and who did more than person then alive to break down the shameful legal edifice of Jim Crow.

Today’s Supreme Court majority is a group of knee-jerk conservatives whose intellectual leader (to the extent they have one) is Samuel Alito, perhaps the most conceptually rigid and cognitively dishonest justice since Chief Justice Roger Taney.

Five of today’s Supreme Court majority were appointed by presidents who lost the popular vote; three of them by a president who instigated a coup against the United States.

The authority of the Supreme Court derives entirely from Americans’ confidence and trust in it. As Alexander Hamilton wrote in The Federalist Papers 78, the judiciary has “neither the sword” (the executive branch’s power to compel action) “nor the purse” (the Congress’s power to appropriate funds).

The Court I was privileged to argue before almost fifty years ago had significant authority. It protected the less powerful with arguments that resonated with the core moral values of the nation. Americans didn’t always agree with its conclusions, but they respected it.

Today’s cruel and partisan Supreme Court is squandering what remains of its authority. It is also imposing unnecessary suffering on those least able to bear it.

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May 10—DANVERS — A Salem Superior Court judge said he needs more information about Mark Ternullo's financial resources — or lack thereof — before potentially reducing the bail of the Danvers child psychologist charged with possessing hundreds of pornographic images of children earlier this year.

"It's incredible to me he is a practicing psychologist, 69 years old, with no assets to his name," Judge Thomas Drechsler said during Ternullo's arraignment Monday.

Ternullo's case has made national headlines due to the fact that the images were found in a hidden room in his now-former Danvers apartment.

But it has also been highlighted by Gov. Charlie Baker, who has cited it as an example of gaps in the state's bail law.

Defendants awaiting trial in nearly every case short of murder are presumed to be entitled to release on bail, but a 1990s-era statute allowed prosecutors to seek detention without bail for certain dangerous crimes.

However, that list of crimes currently does not include cases of child pornography and other non-forcible sex crimes involving children.

So as prosecutor Maria Markos asked the judge to maintain Ternullo's bail at the same $10,000 set by a Salem District Court judge three months ago, Drechsler pressed her.

"He's 69, with no record," the judge told the prosecutor. The crime involved possession and not dissemination. Isn't he entitled to a presumption of release, the judge asked Markos.

Markos explained that investigators are still examining multiple electronic devices surrendered by Ternullo and that the current indictment in the case, which covers nearly 1,000 images found in the hidden room, with Ternullo's face superimposed on them, could be just the first of multiple counts.

Tom Pierce, a public defender appointed to represent Ternullo, asked the judge to release his client on a GPS bracelet.

Ternullo, who has pleaded not guilty in the case, has been unable to come up with the existing $10,000 bail and has been held at the Billerica House of Correction.

Pierce acknowledged during the hearing that it's not yet clear where Ternullo would live, given that he's now been evicted from the Butler Avenue apartment he'd lived in for 23 years before his Feb. 9 arrest.

The hidden room was found by a worker replacing a bathtub after the multifamily home was purchased by a new owner last year.

Pierce stressed his client's lack of a prior record other than one dismissed driving case, and his ties to the area. He said Ternullo is originally from Connecticut but has lived in Massachusetts since 1979.

As Pierce described Ternullo's career, the judge interjected, saying he was surprised to learn that a practicing psychologist with a doctorate would have no savings and not own a home.

Pierce suggested that Ternullo's health problems may have contributed to financial instability.

But the judge asked a probation officer to conduct a check with the state Department of Revenue before he makes any decision on bail. That caused the hearing to be continued to Thursday.

Drechsler, under the current law, is required to consider both how much bail Ternullo can afford to post and what amount is most likely to ensure his appearance at future hearings. He cannot consider whether he believes Ternullo poses a danger if released — something Baker's proposed legislation would address.

Markos is also asking the judge to set a condition of house arrest monitored by a GPS, no contact with children under 18 and no use of a computer. But as the law stands now, the judge can set conditions like that only if a defendant agrees to them.

Pierce said his client would agree to a GPS, but said a home confinement condition could pose a problem given the uncertainty over where his client could live if released.

The state has suspended Ternullo's license to work as a psychologist.

Over the past two decades, Ternullo had worked at schools throughout the North of Boston region, in Methuen and Gloucester, and more recently had been treating children in private practice.

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Wednesday, June 22, 2022

At least 6 dead, 42 injured in weekend mass shootings across US (ABC News) A family barbecue, a park gathering and a nightclub were among the settings for at least nine mass shootings that broke out across the country between Friday and early Monday, marking the fourth consecutive weekend U.S. law enforcement officers have responded to multiple incidents, each involving four or more victims shot. The shootings this weekend have left at least six people dead and 42 injured in nine cities, according to the Gun Violence Archive, a site that tracks shootings across the country. The website defines a mass shooting as a single incident involving four or more victims. The string of consecutive weekend mass-casualty incidents began over the Memorial Day holiday, when at least 17 shootings left a total of 13 dead and 79 injured in cities across the country. The three-day holiday was followed by a weekend that saw at least 11 mass-casualty shootings that left 17 dead and 62 injured across the nation. Last weekend, at least 10 mass-casualty shootings nationwide killed 10 people and injured 42.

Sweltering streets: Hundreds of homeless die in extreme heat (AP) Hundreds of blue, green and grey tents are pitched under the sun’s searing rays in downtown Phoenix, a jumble of flimsy canvas and plastic along dusty sidewalks. Here, in the hottest big city in America, thousands of homeless people swelter as the summer’s triple digit temperatures arrive. The stifling tent city has ballooned amid pandemic-era evictions and surging rents that have dumped hundreds more people onto the sizzling streets that grow eerily quiet when temperatures peak in the midafternoon. A heat wave earlier this month brought temperatures of up to 114 degrees (45.5 Celsius)—and it’s only June. Highs reached 118 degrees (47.7 Celsius) last year. Excessive heat causes more weather-related deaths in the United States than hurricanes, flooding and tornadoes combined. Around the country, heat contributes to some 1,500 deaths annually, and advocates estimate about half of those people are homeless.

A wildfire year (NYT) The American West is burning more quickly than it has in a decade. New Mexico has been fighting its two biggest wildfires on record for more than a month. About 3 million acres of U.S. land—almost the size of Connecticut—have already burned this year. And with summer starting tomorrow and a widespread heat wave already in place, the burning is likely to get worse. The changing climate has created a troubling reality, ecologists and foresters said: Wildfire seasons have turned into wildfire years, starting earlier in the spring and sometimes lasting well into the following winter. These fires have also gotten more severe. California experienced two of its largest in the past two years: The Dixie Fire in 2021 burned almost a million acres, and the August Complex fire in 2020 surpassed a million acres.

Latin America embraces a new left (Washington Post) For more than two centuries, Colombia was considered a conservative stalwart in Latin America. Even as leftist governments came and went across the region, a center-right political establishment remained in control—a continuity that cemented the country’s role as a key U.S. ally. On Sunday night, everything changed. Gustavo Petro, a senator and former guerrilla, was elected the country’s first leftist president, galvanizing millions of poor, young, struggling Colombians desperate for someone different. His victory, unthinkable just a generation ago, was the most stunning example yet of how the pandemic has transformed the politics of Latin America. The pandemic hit the economies of this region harder than almost anywhere else in the world, kicking 12 million people out of the middle class in a single year. Across the continent, voters have punished those in power for failing to lift them out of their misery. And the winner has been Latin America’s left—in Peru, in Chile, and now in Colombia. All eyes are now on Brazil, the largest country in Latin America, where former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva leads polls to unseat President Jair Bolsonaro in October. A Lula victory would mean all of the largest countries in the region, including Mexico and Argentina, are led by leftist presidents.

Biggest rail strike in 30 years brings UK to standstill (Reuters) Britain’s biggest rail strike in 30 years kicked off on Tuesday as tens of thousands of staff walked out in a dispute over pay and jobs that could pave the way for widespread industrial action across the economy in coming months. Some of the more than 40,000 rail workers who are due to strike on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday gathered at picket lines from dawn, leaving the network at a standstill and major stations deserted. The London Underground metro was also mostly closed due to a separate strike. Unions have said the rail strikes could mark the start of a “summer of discontent” with teachers, medics, waste disposal workers and even barristers moving towards industrial action as surging food and fuel prices push inflation towards 10%.

Moscow fumes over EU blockade of Baltic outpost (Reuters) Russia summoned the European Union’s ambassador in Moscow on Tuesday, fuming over a rail blockade that has halted shipments of many basic goods to a Russian outpost on the Baltic Sea, the latest stand-off over sanctions imposed over the war in Ukraine. The Kaliningrad enclave is home to nearly a million Russians, connected to the rest of Russia by a rail link through EU- and NATO-member Lithuania. In recent days, Lithuania has shut the route for basic goods including construction materials, metals and coal. Vilnius and Brussels say Lithuania is implementing new EU sanctions that came into force on Saturday. Moscow calls the move an illegal blockade and has threatened unspecified retaliation.

How Elon Musk’s satellite system changed the war in Ukraine (Les Echos/France) One of the main lessons armies are taking from the war in Ukraine is the importance of space—to the ability to observe, listen, geo-locate or transfer data to help the battles on the ground. Satellites have been at the service of armies for a long time. But in Ukraine, they have become essential. Thanks to satellites, Washington can tell Ukrainian soldiers where to position themselves and where to fire. Moreover, the French Army stresses that connectivity and social networks have a huge impact not only in terms of operations but also with information and propaganda. Two days after the offensive, Ukraine called on the constellation of low-orbiting Starlink satellites deployed by Elon Musk to maintain its communications. Starlink plays an unprecedented military role in data transmission and Internet (broadband). Ukrainian units use Musk’s constellation for “blue force tracking,” which allows them to stay connected to their allies on the battlefield. And with over 2,300 satellites in orbit, Starlink appears to be indestructible for the time being—the loss of a few satellites is not enough to put it out of order.

No nukes? Ukraine-Russian war will shape world’s arsenals (AP) The headlines on the newsstands in Seoul blared fresh warnings of a possible nuclear test by North Korea. Out on the sidewalks, 28-year-old office worker Lee Jae Sang already had an opinion about how to respond to North Korea’s fast-growing capacity to lob nuclear bombs across borders and oceans. “Our country should also develop a nuclear program. And prepare for a possible nuclear war,” said Lee, voicing a desire that a February poll showed was shared by 3 out of 4 South Koreans. It’s a point that people and politicians of non-nuclear powers globally are raising more often, at what has become a destabilizing moment in more than a half-century of global nuclear nonproliferation efforts, one aggravated by the daily example of nuclear Russia tearing apart non-nuclear Ukraine. That reconsideration by non-nuclear states is playing out in Asia. The region is home to an ever-more assertive North Korea, China, Russia and Iran—three nuclear powers and one near-nuclear power—but is unprotected by the kind of nuclear umbrella and broad defense alliance that for decades has shielded NATO countries.

Sri Lanka shuts down, families struggle for food as crisis deepens (Washington Post) Schools and government offices in Sri Lanka’s major cities were shut Monday for at least a week as a severe fuel shortage nearly brought the country to a standstill, the latest chapter in a slow-moving economic crisis that has led to protests, political turmoil and mounting food insecurity. Many streets in the normally bustling capital, Colombo, were largely deserted. Armed forces stood guard at gas stations as lines of vehicles extended for miles. The hours-long waits have led to tense standoffs and violent confrontations in recent days between frustrated Sri Lankans and security forces. In a blunt statement, the energy minister asked the public to refrain from lining up for gasoline for the next three days. Authorities announced last week that government workers, barring those in essential fields such as health care, would work from home given the “current fuel shortage and issues in transport facilities.” Life has become a daily struggle for many in this island nation of 23 million, as it endures its worst economic crisis in decades. Food inflation reached 57 percent last month, and a recent survey by the World Food Program conducted in 17 of 25 districts found that most families are feeling the effects of hunger.

South China floods force tens of thousands to evacuate (AP) Major flooding has forced the evacuation of tens of thousands of people in southern China, with more rain expected. Parts of the manufacturing hub of Guangdong suspended classes, office work and public transport amid rising waters and the threat of landslides. In the neighboring province of Jiangxi, almost 500,000 people have seen damage to their homes and their lives uprooted. Roughly the same number have been affected in Guangdong, largely in the cities of Shaoguan, Heyuan and Meizhou.

Away from war, Syrians find their rhythm in ballroom dancing (AP) One, two, three, stop. Five, six, seven, stop: A group of young Syrian men and women step, sway and twirl to the backdrop of salsa music, dancing their worries away. For an hour a week in a Damascus studio, their instructor Adnan Mohammed, 42, teaches a class the basics of Latin dancing, helping his students forget the troubles of war—if even briefly. “They come out a different person,” Mohammed says. For his students, ballroom dancing is a form of release, finding their rhythm in music away from their country’s many social and economic pressures. For that one hour, they push Syria’s 11-year war from their minds, the politics, the anxiety over the economic crisis and the country’s constantly depreciating currency. “They put that energy aside and they start to be optimistic,” Mohammed added.

African Youth (Quartz) According to the 2022 Africa Youth Survey, 52 percent of the young people in Africa would like to emigrate, a 22 percent increase over the fraction observed in 2019 before the pandemic. This restlessness among young people is particularly critical on a continent where the average age is 19 years of age. The pandemic has been especially hard in Africa, where 18 percent of young Africans had to move back home from cities as a consequence, and four in 10 had to pause or stop school.

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Day 6 - The Drive Home

Today was the last day of tour. I wake up in the morning feeling guilty because I have a groggy memory of waking up around 8 to go to the bathroom, Paul was waiting to go, but when the person came out I just fronted him (a word I just now remember from elementary school, cut in line, but southern), used the bathroom and went back to bed. Rude. I am wiping the cold from my eye, taking in the undecorated walls of the apartment, and Jeremy comes from down the hall and says ‘Did you get the memo? Louisville cancelled. Tour’s over.” I said ‘fuck’ and processed it. I feel sad for Jeremy and John and Kabir because I know they wanted to play this last show in Kentucky. It’s not that I didn’t, but also for the last three months and for especially the last month I have been feeling a tremendous amount of anxiety about this tour, about feeling out-of-control, about being away from loved ones at home, about being available to show up for people in my life, about completing regular routines of hygiene and spirituality and task completion that make me feel boring and comfortable, both. Touring stirs up dredges of the tea leaves that I had let settle into a fine filmy sediment at the bottom of me. I manufactured a jello mold two years ago and poured myself into it: regular 9-5 in the legal field as a means and precursor to law school, then diligent study for 3 years, then a professional career, abandoning the party life, abandoning trespassing in abandoned buildings, abondoning the luxury of resentment and unproductive time, trying to cool and firm into something reliable, serviceable, dependable, available, a resource people could draw from for once, rather than a leech or slug. And when I go on tour I take that jello mold out of the fridge and it holds its shape but also it warms and the longer I’m out the more liquidy it gets and sloshes over the sides and so forth. So I’m ambivalent because I like what I have to offer to this band, I like the physical process of drumming and expressing myself in the context of music and being a member of a band, but also I feel like I’ve kind of chilled enough and it’s time to settle down. And I’m at a way different point in my life than the other guys in the band it seems like, for the most part. So anyways all this to contextualize the fact that the news of tour ending even earlier than early honestly makes me feel relieved, if not happy, and so then I work to temper that boosted mood for the sake of grim decorum befitting a tour taken before its time. 

All our stuff is locked in the venue from last night and we learn we won’t be able to pick it up until 1pm and so we have about 4 hours to kill in the apartment. Phillip puts on a pot of coffee that will turn out to be some of the wateriest on record, but still, a super kind gesture, and then he also puts on The Wire on HBO Go and we just settle in on the couch and watch for awhile. Some of the scenes are familiar, there’s something seductive about this show, and it brings me back to the precise moment of Summer of 2013 right before I moved to Philadelphia right after I got evicted from the squat/music venue I had been living in that winter and spring, I watched all episodes of The Wire on DVD on Matt Martin’s couch at 3 Pomroy and felt deeply depressed. It ranks up there with when I watched all released episodes of The Office in bed in the winter of 2009 after my girlfriend broke up with me, in terms of memorably devestating life phases offset by the amniotic fluid of full-series of TV. So we watch The Wire and I find myself not too inclined to sit and watch and I want to write so I sit at my laptop on the table nearby and write an email to a female (sorry) but I actually do and its purpose is to make her smile and bring some levity and play and purple prose to a moment in her life that, from how she tells it to me, is just so heavy, nightmares and waking horror and a future that feels like it hangs by a thread. so I’m glad to spend time showing up for her in this small way rather than watching The Wire, and also I write yesterday’s blog post, another activity that feels sort of like a pittance but also like: doing-writing is something I have been putting off, in phases and seasons, for my entire adult life, because to me nothing ever matters enough to write about, or if it does my perspective is deficient, or my research inadequate, or my skill incommensurate with the subject matter, or it won’t properly reflect my feelings, or any number of self-sabotaging excuses to not do this thing I so love doing, and love sharing. So for me, writing this blog is a very meaningful and special act of reclamation of a personal mode of expression that constitutes a break in my winter’s depression and what feels like a new phase of happiness, of believing-i-have-a-future, of feeling more authoratative and qualified to know and describe my own experience in a lifetime marred and dampened by dissociation, oblivion, amnesia, and fugue. So it feels like nourishment to get some paragraphs done and to move slow through my days, get them onto the page.

The Wire grows tiresome at some point and Jeremy fires up the PS4 and then the PS3 looking for games but none are multiplayer and so eventually he settles on Skyrim and starts from a new file. Me personally I love watching let’s plays and this is as good as TV. There was a moment last tour when we were in this strange small town in Connecticut called Torrington (the town all touring bands are required to go to, we also joked), in this town Jeremy was describing the sort of surrealness he experienced there and he said he felt like the townspeople in Torrington were like NPCs in a FPS RPG like Skyrim wherein you would go up to people and press A to talk, say ‘What news?” and that I thought was really funny then, I like his sense of humor. Really Kabir and Jeremy and Royal represent this sort of humor that is to me equal parts razor wit, cleverness, timing, accents, absurdity, and broad conceptual placticity, all for the most part very clean too, never or at least rarely blue (you’re gonna inevitably make a D’s nuts joke and that’s just that). And during happy times I am so grateful to be nearby this humor and during less happy times I get self conscious about how great their humor is and how I sometimes feel like I don’t measure up. But that feeling doesn’t weigh for long. Skyrim is fun to watch, it kills some time, we all take turns trying to kill wolves with swords before Jeremy finally does it, there’s a dragon, we loot corpses, discuss Bloodborne and Dark Souls and comparable games. A lot of the main media activity in this group is discussing how a given media relates to another media, Kabir and Jeremy and John know it seems like everything between the three of them when it comes to record labels, band narratives, artist’s hometowns, etc. So we play Skyrim for awhile, and then eventually it’s time to go to the venue and we drive back to The Salty Nut, load in all our gear, do a final sweep, and say our goodbyes and thankyous to Phillip. We return to the Bandido place one last time for one last round of free local Taco Bell which we absolutely scarf and are very vocally grateful to the people for giving it to us for free again, it’s clear they really put effort into being hospitable to touring bands here, at least through Phillip. His band, Thomas Function, was signed on Fat Possum Records, which also had bigger indie acts like Jay Reatard (who Phillip tells a story about him demanding $50,000 in cash for a show fee to feed his coke and heroin habit, Reatard died at age 29 from cocaine toxicity with alcohol also), The Black Keys, Andrew Bird, Wavves and Soccer Mommy, but which Kabir postulates has most of its success due to having signed octogenarian southern blues legends like R.L. Burnside and King Ernest and raking in royalties from what Kabir speculates is due to poor management of the estates of these dead leagends who each had more than a dozen children. It’s truly fascinating for me to hear how deep and complex the analysis of music these guys have is. When I feel insecure, which is often, I tend to veneer these sorts of expertises and shibboleths among music-heads as snobby, elitist, exclusionary, petty and asinine. But I think most of that comes from a fear that I lack the insight, cognitive absorbency, and passionate research skills to collate and catalog data about artists in the way these people do, the way my bandmates do. I feel inspired to take time to dig deeper into the musicans I love, to make them real to me, to get a sense of their story, their lived experience, for the sake of corroding the mediation between us somewhat, or at least polishing the media membrane. 

I volunteer to drive for the first half of what will end up being about a 10-hour drive back from Huntsville to Chapel Hill. We go to a Whole Foods in Huntsville upon Kabir’s insistence where I purchase a nootropic snakeoil energy affair in beverage form, Kabir gets hot coffee and a La Colombe Draft can of latte, Jeremy gets a kombucha made from yerba mate (“best of both worlds” he says), John black coffee as per, and Kabir also buys a slice of Tres Leches cake in a clear plastic to-go clamshell: “they can take away my tour, but they can’t take away my tres leches.” Later he’s eating it in the van and he accidentally spills some on himself and he says “shit…spilled some on myself. oh good, it was only one leche” which to me is so funny and perfect humor and just like kind of a paragon of the kind of joke I so treasure from this friend group. Another is when Jeremy and Kabir are recalling a favorite running joke from two tours ago, wherein they were in Philly, home to the famous Schuykill River (pronounced skoo-kill, at least when i lived there, at least around the non-indigenous people i knew), and while there they would affect this blaring Brooklyn accent, deployed heavily on this trip as well for basically any purpose, but back then they would say “UGH MY SKOYKL IS KILLING ME” like Schuykill was lombago or sciatica and also would say “YEAH LET ME GET A KWATA POUND OF SKOYKL ON RYE” like it was a deli meat, and they laughed and laughed. Also they liked doing rhyming jokes like last night there was a chair nearby the combo amp Tired Frontier was going to use for their set and Kabir goes ‘amp on the chair, tone everywhere’ and then I say ‘amp on the ground, makes a bad sound’ and then I tell Jeremy later how Kabir would put me in good spirits whenever I was describing to someone how my LSAT score is very competitive but my checkered past makes the acceptance process a little less than straightforward, and Kabir would see I was getting kinda down and anxious, and he would say ‘You gotta break the law before you make the law,’ and we all laugh and I love that, the function of humor as balm, salve. I want to wield my humor like that.

The drive back is fine, some sprinkles, nothing major, clear traffic for the most part, I feel like I have a good command of the van, keep it around 75 for most of the trip, feel smoth and confident switching lanes, passing, etc. We do another two NYT Wednesday classic crosswords together, Kabir is getting probably 40% of the clues, me maybe 30% Jeremy and John the other 30%, Kabir will just to YEAHHHHHHHH after getting a clue and I start doing that too after Jeremy says “X down, ‘on the table’ 15 letters,” and I say UPFORDISCUSSION after only a couple seconds and it fits and is correct and I feel like a damn genius and we’re all laughing and kind of praising each other half-jokingly for being strong beautiful geniuses who also we know songs. This is a great passtime and the drive flies by and before I know it we’re in Western NC just outside of Asheville and we make a stop to refuel the tank and get dinner. We decide on a Waffle House across the street, not wanting to venture too deep into Asheville for something healthier and better because of the time and money it would likely eat up, Kabir says that FEMA uses the closing of Waffle Houses as a bellweather to indicate the severity of a given natural disaster. We go inside, the waitress says ‘ya’ll aren’t from around here are you?’ in a way that I take to be hostile and I suggest that to the guys and they seem like maybe slightly offput but not very much and we decide not to abort and I later feel foolish because I think I am doing this thing where I become excessively vigilant or sensitive to a perceived slight to a friend who is brown for the putative purpose of interceding on their behalf against racism but what’s actually happening is if someone was racist to them they could just stand up for themselves and make their own call regarding their own comfort or lack thereof and I would do better to act less motivated by white guilt when avoidable. That passes, it’s fine, we eat hash browns and waffles and eggs and grits and toast and cover everything in tobasco and tip well and get back on the road, John takes over for the final stretch. 

I return a call from Marty and catch him up about tour being cancelled and we discuss our fears and hysteria and cancellations and reaction and so forth. Marty remarks that he is a gravedigger during the plague, which is the best possible job to have. It’s not a joke because he actually drives a backhoe working for a cemetary and digs actual graves, super weird and eminently punk/goth and kind of a curiosity but really perfect for the lead singer of one of the South’s premiere punk bands, especially after his being fired from the swish cafe he worked at in Richmond before that. I love Marty and catching up and it feels good to hear his voice. After I get off the phone it sort of becomes campfire spooky story time in the van with everyone proffering their take on the panic, market failure, the likelihood of Capitalism as a superstructure to require perpetual growth even at the peril or death of its working class, the superior response to covid that South Korea and Norway seem to have mounted, a lot of fear of financial insecurity. Eventually this digresses to talk of touring, and the guys discuss all manner of various routes throught the South, Midwest, Northeast, plains states, PNW, Mexico City, Jeremy says ‘I can get us a show in Colombia’ which he can, Argentina or Venezuela through a mutual friend, then Europe so long as the label foots the bill for the plane ticket, then Japan, setting up camp on Honshu would make it easy to hit TOkyo, Kyoto, Osaka and Nagoya no problem, except where exactly are people playing shows? there’s gotta be somewhere all these Japanese Noise and Hardcore bands are getting gigs, and then from there of course it’s not hard to get to Australia, John knows a band there, and they go all around the world and this is stressing me out a little bit, only because I wonder about how much they think I would be involved or want to go on such a theoretical tour, and the answer is I don’t 100% know. Part of me wants to say this is my last tour, lean all the way in to law school and leave behind this chapter. Part of me feels like it’s better not to make a hard and fast statement like that because what if the economy collapses and for some reason school is a no-go but being in the band becomes the most plausible source of income or something. I get anxious and psych myself out and quiet down and feel foolish and wish to be home. I fantasize about my future life of stability, but I second guess myself because I just don’t know for sure how my life will be, and want to be careful to work toward the goals I think will be the most fulfilling, self-actualizing, spiritually nourishing, healthy for me; I also want to not forsake the friendships and bonds I’ve forged in these weird intimate moments in the van with the guys. I have the wherewithal to know that nobody is requiring me to make a decision right this second, and that as time passes it’s likely that the best course of action will be revealed one way or another if I can keep from panicking. So I watch videos of the 2019 Classic Tetris World Championships on my phone, eat two candy bars, watch videos of a streamer named Wumbotize play the latest Tetris game, Tetris Effect (2018, PS4, PC), and am pleasantly awed by how crazily far the skill curve of that game has shot up. I have some time ahead of me that is completely free, which is so nice. Before I know it I’m back home in my clean apartment which is tidy like a tetris field at the beginning of a new game and I get into my bed and lay down flat and if my bed is the well than the line of me clears and the well is clean, smooth, primed, for whatever falls tomorrow. 

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Colorado Clinic’s Prescription for Healthier Patients? Lawyers

COMMERCE CITY, Colo. — In her 19 years of living with cerebral palsy, scoliosis and other ailments, Cynthia Enriquez De Santiago has endured about 60 surgeries and her heart has flatlined at least four times.

But the most unusual doctor’s referral of her life came last year: Go see an attorney.

Enriquez De Santiago sought help at a Colorado health clinic that takes a novel approach to improving the health of its patients: It incorporates legal assistance into its medical practice for patients facing eviction or deportation proceedings, among other legal woes. And the state’s Medicaid program helps fund the initiative.

Although Medicaid traditionally doesn’t fund clinics to supply legal assistance, Colorado is one of several states that have been given permission to use some of their Medicaid money to help pay for such programs. Every day in Commerce City, four lawyers join the physicians, psychiatrists and social workers at Salud Family Health Centers’ clinic in this suburb north of Denver, as part of Salud’s philosophy that mending legal ills is as important for health as diet and exercise.

The goal: Reduce toxic stress and keep families intact, on the premise that it will serve their health for years to come, said Marc Scanlon, the attorney who directs the program.

Mostly, that has meant helping people with unemployment benefit claims and Social Security Disability Insurance denials. But it also regularly entails helping patients — many of whom speak only Spanish after having arrived here from Mexico or Central America — with immigration hearings.

The program is among at least 450 existing medical-legal partnerships across the nation that typically serve impoverished people and migrants. The vast majority don’t rely on Medicaid dollars, which are used only in fewer than 10 states, according to the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership.

The role of these sorts of medical-legal partnerships has grown over the past year as millions of people in the U.S. have faced lost income and the threat of losing their homes during the covid-19 pandemic. Some partnerships have helped patients secure unemployment checks, while others have fought some of the evictions that weren’t already barred by state or federal moratoriums.

“All the issues that people are struggling with in the pandemic are all the same issues that medical-legal partnerships have been trying to work with forever,” said Vicki Girard, a law professor and co-director of the Georgetown University Health Justice Alliance in Washington, D.C.

In Montana, Kallie Dale-Ramos helped persuade a primary care association, the state’s legal aid organization and six community health centers operating in cities across Montana to pool $20,000 to help hire an attorney, who can split time among the clinics to help patients affected by the pandemic.

Since the start of 2020, that investment has helped more than 130 patients seek unemployment claims — and potentially stave off financial ruin.

One woman had been waiting for unemployment assistance since applying in March 2020, and only recently received her first check, said Dale-Ramos. Without legal help along the way, the woman “would have just been like, ‘I can’t do this anymore,’” Dale-Ramos said.

This sort of legal-medical partnership is centered on the notion that doctors can do only so much to keep their patients healthy.

Proponents See Lasting Impact

Advocates for such programs cite the example of a child suffering from asthma caused by mold in a dilapidated apartment. While a doctor couldn’t force a landlord to clean up the property or break the lease, a letter from a lawyer might be persuasive, said Dr. Tillman Farley, Salud’s chief medical officer.

“Some of these impacts carry out for decades,” Farley said. “And once you get into effects like that, then you’re really talking generational changes in health outcomes.”

Beyond common sense, evidence from emerging research suggests the approach can work. Patients at Veterans Affairs clinics in Connecticut and New York, for example, saw their mental health improve significantly within three months of consulting a clinic attorney, according to a 2017 study in Health Affairs.

And at Colorado’s partnership, a survey of patients from 2015 to 2020 found statistically significant drops in stress and poor physical health, as well as fewer missed medical appointments among its 69 respondents, said Dr. Angela Sauaia, a professor at the Colorado School of Public Health who led the research.

The possible reasons for missing fewer doctor appointments after getting the legal help, Sauaia said, included patients having more income, being less depressed and having an improved immigration status that made them less fearful to venture into public.

Medical-legal partnerships should be considered part of health care, Sauaia believes. “You should be referring to them the same way a provider would be referring a patient to a specialty, such as endocrinology or surgery.”

The biggest challenge for these programs is securing stable funding. Many are funded with a small amount of seed money, or by grants that run only a year or two.

Medicaid, established in 1965, is a nationwide health care program for people who have low incomes or are disabled. It’s jointly funded by the federal government and each state, and traditionally has covered medical costs such as physician visits and hospital stays.

In recent years, though, some states have increasingly sought to use Medicaid dollars to fund initiatives such as using social workers or offering legal assistance to address the social determinants of health. That includes North Carolina, which is using a federal waiver and hundreds of millions of dollars in a highly scrutinized effort to transform its Medicaid program. Among its strategies is more legal aid for patients.

Some Critics See Overreach by Medicaid Plans

The nationwide shift has prompted some health policy experts to question whether Medicaid is beginning to run too far afield of its purpose.

“Everybody agrees that social factors play a very large role in health outcomes; the question is what to do about it,” said James Capretta, a resident fellow of the American Enterprise Institute who was an associate director of the Office of Management and Budget during the George W. Bush administration.

“Medicaid is already an immense program with lots of financial challenges,” Capretta noted. “The program was not built for Medicaid to pay for too many services beyond the more direct services that are related to a medical condition or a disability.”

The small-scale use of waivers and supplemental Medicaid dollars to fund programs aimed at the social factors of poor health — such as housing for people with severe mental illness — works in some places, said Matt Salo, executive director of the National Association of Medicaid Directors. But for Medicaid to provide widespread funding for such social service programs would be unsustainable, and shouldn’t happen, he said.

“It is not — and should not be — Medicaid’s responsibility to figure out how to pay for it,” he said.

Some advocates for legal assistance programs and health policy experts worry about a potential public backlash based on misperceptions about how the little-known medical-legal partnerships use Medicaid. For one, the programs generally aren’t reimbursed for services in the same way traditional Medicaid programs are, said Sara Rosenbaum, a health law and policy professor at George Washington University. Medicaid is more of “an indirect funder,” she said.

A 2019 Manatt Health Strategies report on funding for medical-legal partnerships said “the time is ripe” for these partnerships to explore the little-used avenues available in Medicaid.

The states that administer the Medicaid programs and the managed care organizations that contract with them have some discretion to fund non-clinical services that improve access or outcomes for social determinants of health, according to the report.

States also can write the medical-leaderships programs into a larger federal waiver application for experimental, pilot or demonstration projects that promote Medicaid’s objectives.

“The dollars are minimal,” said Ellen Lawton, former director of the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership, and a senior fellow at HealthBegins, a consulting firm. “And I think what we’re seeing is that — appropriately — the Medicaid programs are pacing themselves. They’re looking to see what works — what works in our state, what works in our region, what works with the populations that we’re focused on.”

States have been creative in funding these sorts of legal assistance programs. Colorado officials said they amended their Medicaid spending plan to provide grants to two such partnerships. Other states have sought federal waivers allowing them to support those programs. The Department of Veterans Affairs also offers the services of medical-legal partnerships funded by outside organizations.

Scanlon, the attorney at the Salud clinic, is part of a nonprofit organization called Medical Legal Partnership Colorado that operates under a joint agreement with the clinic. Colorado’s Medicaid program approved a $300,000 grant to the partnership that was renewed this year to pay for three attorneys’ salaries.

Authorizing the funding took little convincing, said Michelle Miller, chief nursing officer for the state’s Medicaid program. “When we were asked to approve funding for this, I jumped at it,” Miller said.

One Woman’s Story

For Cynthia Enriquez De Santiago, the 19-year-old patient from Salud’s Commerce City clinic, legal advice made all the difference in her medical care.

In addition to her cerebral palsy, the teen is blind and has difficulty speaking; she needs round-the-clock care, including help eating and using the bathroom. Her doctor at the clinic put Rafaela De Santiago, Cynthia’s mother, in touch with an attorney who could help her continue to be her daughter’s legal guardian after the teen turned 18 last year.

The timing of that legal help proved critical: Several months after seeing the attorney, Enriquez De Santiago was rushed to a hospital. For no obvious reason, she had become hypothermic; her blood pressure dropped and her blood-oxygen levels cratered.

“The doctors were telling me I had to be ready for the worst,” the teen’s mother said through a Spanish-to-English interpreter.

Because she was Enriquez De Santiago’s legal guardian, her mother was able to sign off on follow-up tests after that emergency to quickly get to the root of the medical problem and help prevent it from happening again.

Without guardianship, “it would have been really, really hard, because I wouldn’t know where to begin the process,” Rafaela De Santiago said.

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Why Is Charlotte Housing So Expensive?

Charlotte ranks as the best real estate market in the Southeastern United States. According to the reports, this real-estate market will experience a combined growth rate of 19%, considering the growth of new home building and sales growth. 

Charlotte is the most populated city in North Carolina. Not only that,  it is one of the fastest-growing metro areas in the United States. The Charlotte metro area is the second-largest financial center in the United States. It is also  home to professional sports teams. 

Its quality of life and diverse economy means  its housing market can be very  expensive. 

Is Investing in Charlotte NC Homes for Sale a Good Idea?

To understand if a certain market is a good real estate investment, you have to study it first. Various factors make the Charlotte housing market a smart move. 

Population Growth: Charlotte is one of the fastest-growing areas  in the country. It is also the largest metropolitan area between Washington D.C. and Atlanta. It sees an increase in population by about 100,000 people every year. Increasing  job opportunities and low cost of living are attracting people to Charlotte from all around the country. Economic stability plays a major role in the success of this real-estate market. So, as long as people enjoy living  in this city, it will continue to have a  good real estate market.

Home Values: According to Zillow, the median home value in the Charlotte housing market is $225,000. Its home values have increased by 8.6%. Moreover, it is expected to increase by another 6.1% within the next year. If  you invest in a Charlotte property, it will maintain its value. 

Landlord Friendly: In case you are a real estate investor who is taking on the role of a landlord, you will be pleased to know that Charlotte  is in a landlord-friendly state. There is no rent regulation or rent control in North Carolina. In fact, there are laws in place to ensure a smoother eviction process if required. You don’t have to worry about late rent or bad tenants as the state has got your back. 

What to Consider Before Buying a Charlotte NC Condo for Sale

Condos are typically more affordable than the houses available. If you have decided to buy a condo in Charlotte, there are a few things that you need to take into account. 

Location: One of the most important to invest in real estate is to consider the location. You might keep  the condo forever. So, consider the long-term value. Check if there are developments that will increase the property value. Also, take the view into consideration. 

Amenities: These are the extras that people love so much. Examples of amenities are a party room, gym, concierge, and visitor parking. Make sure you take the building amenities into account. Decide if they are useful to you, or could be appealing to others. Usually, the more the amenities, the higher  the condo’s price. 

Condo Rules: Living in a condo doesn’t come with the same freedom as living in a house. There are often regulations and restrictions which residents must follow.  One of the common  restrictions is on pet ownership. You also might not be permitted to renovate the interior without permission. Find out about these rules before investing in a condo unit. 

Size: Remember, when you are buying a condo, size is important. Check the square footage and find out if the furniture you have will fit in the  condo. It is particularly important to find out size if you are buying a  pre-construction condo. 

Why Should You Buy Luxury Homes for Sale in Charlotte NC?

All real estate agents will tell you that buying a luxury home comes with its own benefits. The value of the community and home is already established, the homes  have bigger lots and more character, and most appliances are included in the sale. 

Other benefits include:

If you plan to sell, you can expect to get a better return on your investment. The sales process  is subject to market conditions and the state of the house, of course, but a good return on investment is almost certain. 

High-end neighborhoods, communities, and condominiums generally include extras that you will not find in an average neighborhood. These neighborhoods often have home associations, which include things like  If a community pool and lawn  maintenance.. Also, the home itself might have some unique characteristics that make it special. 

Which Neighborhoods to Consider When Buying Charlotte North Carolina Homes for Sale?

When you are purchasing a North Carolina home for sale in the Charlotte area, the neighborhoods that you can consider are:

South Park, close to Billy Graham Library. 

Myers Park, one of the most prestigious neighborhoods

Ballantyne East, Charlotte’s newest upscale communities

Mattews, the most popular suburban town

Huntersville, the location that sits on the shore of Lake Norman

Dilworth, the oldest “streetcar suburb” in Charlotte 

Why Have Charlotte NC Investment Properties been Unaffected by the  2020 Health Crisis?

There has been a pent-up demand for homes from the real estate market being shut down for so long. People want to begin new lifestyles. About 40% of the population will  not be going t back to a standard office setting. This changes how and where people want to live. 

Charlotte is seeing an influx of home buyers from East Coast and California. It is also seeing buyers from states like Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York. Buyers are relocating from crowded cities. Recently, people have been  moving into Charlotte for better employment. Within the region, people are moving from multi-family units to single-family homes.. Pets are another reason people are moving to Charlotte.. Everyone is looking for more space!

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Showcase Realty is one of the best real estate brokerages in Charlotte, North Carolina. We deliver professional service personally. Showcase Realty  is the brainchild of Nancy Braun. She has called  North Carolina home ever since moving here over two decades ago. Nancy worked as a real estate agent for 12 years in a firm before she decided to start one of her own. Working in this industry for years, Nancy Braun is the best real estate agent in Charlotte NC.

She has successfully built  Showcase Realty, the award-winning business that helps  clients buy and sell real estate in North and South Carolina. Showcase uses  the best marketing technologies and strategies to provide clients cutting-edge results. At, Showcase Realty, we assure you, top return on their investment. 

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Apartment Building Investor Attorney

A real estate attorney can be a valuable partner when buying or selling property. But is one always necessary? Definitely not. Though real estate lawyers can certainly help resolve disputes, navigate complications, or even just provide general guidance, they’re not right for every transaction.

What Does A Real Estate Attorney Do?

Real estate attorneys can assist in a number of capacities, both in the residential space and the commercial one. They help with drafting contracts and legal documents, deal with construction and development issues, and might even attend your closing appointment. One of the most common reasons you’d use a real estate attorney is to draw up a contract or legal document. Attorneys can help you draft: • Your sales contract/purchase agreement. • Leases. • Eviction notices. • Title documents. • Mortgage contracts and documents. • Title and deed transfer documents. If these items have already been drawn up, they can also help you better understand them, explaining your liabilities, obligations, and other terms of the contract.

In addition to document preparation, a real estate lawyer generally offers the following legal services: • Negotiations. • Reviews and due diligence. • Assistance with building and development projects. • General litigation. • Foreclosure proceedings. • Closings. • Title and lien searches. • Deed transfers. • Resolution of zoning issues. • Coordination with lenders, title agents, surveyors, and other parties in the transaction.

They can also assist with real estate litigation and disputes, including title or land disputes, enforcement of legal contracts, and more. Should You Use A Real Estate Lawyer When Buying A Property? Some states require that an attorney be involved in the sales process (or even at the closing table), while others leave it up to you and your lender.

The states where you’ll most likely need an attorney include: • Connecticut. • Delaware. • Georgia. • Massachusetts. • New York. • North Carolina. • South Carolina. But real state laws vary and are constantly in flux. Be sure to check your local laws or ask your real estate agent for additional guidance. If your state doesn’t outright require an attorney, that doesn’t mean one wouldn’t still be helpful. Here are a few scenarios when you might consider hiring legal help:

• You’re building or buying real estate for your business. • You’re having issues with your landlord or tenant. • You’re buying or selling a commercial property with existing tenants. • You need help understanding your sales contract or other agreement. • Your development project is up against land, title, or environmental issues. • You want help negotiating a better deal. • You need assistance with foreclosure proceedings. • You’re buying a property that has physical issues, is in a hazard-prone area, or has lead, asbestos, or environmental toxins. • You want to better understand the liabilities a real estate transaction or property might present. • You’re buying from another state or country and aren’t sure of the local laws. • You’re buying a bank-owned property or property with liens against it. There’s a chance your lender may require an attorney to ensure your property’s title is clean and clear. Ask your lender if this will be required or check your loan estimate to see if an attorney’s fee is quoted there.

Finding A Real Estate Attorney

If you’ve decided you want the help of a real estate attorney, ask your lender, title company, or real estate agent for a referral. You can also ask for recommendations from friends and loved ones. Before hiring a lawyer, schedule a consultation to see if it’s the right fit. Do they have experience with the type of transaction or issue you’re dealing with? How does their fee structure work, and when is payment required? You should also make sure to choose an attorney in the right part of the industry, as residential and commercial real estate transactions are very different. If your state doesn’t require a real estate attorney, there’s a good chance you can proceed without one. As long as you choose an experienced real estate agent, they should be able to guide you through most of your real estate transaction. If you come across any legal issues or disputes, though, a trained attorney is always your best defense.

Why an Out of State Investor Should Hire an Attorney

The purchase or sale of real estate, whether it is a single family house, a multi-family apartment building, vacant land or a commercial building, is an intricate process that begins with the signing of a contract and ends when the keys and the title to the property are transferred to the purchaser. Although Utah law does not require that a real estate attorney be involved to assist with the steps that occur between the time contracting and closing, hiring a local real estate attorney to assist you with the purchase or sale of real estate in Utah is almost always a wise decision and is money well-spent. Considering the fact that the other party to the transaction will almost always have a local real attorney representing them, I want to highlight a few of the reasons why you should always follow suit and hire a local real estate attorney in Utah when you are involved in a real estate transaction.

What Benefit Does Hiring An Attorney Provide • Someone Represents You Legally • Accurate Information Is Being Shared: Having a local real estate attorney in your corner, who understands the intricacies of the local real estate market and who is and has been consistently involved in local real estate investor/investment transactions, will increase the likelihood that when false/misleading/inaccurate information is provided, that this misinformation it is caught, called out and corrected in advance of closing. In addition, having a local real estate attorney involved on your side will increase the likelihood that all of the pertinent, material and available information is provided to you so that you can perform a complete due diligence review. The important information you need as a real estate investor includes, but may not be limited to, the following:  Correct tenant lease and application information  Update on subsidized housing inspections and status  Verification of any local administrative or building codes  Correction of any inspection issues  All contract matters are being documented by your attorney in case they need to be referenced post-closing

• Real estate attorneys decrease the likelihood of post-closing litigation: Local real estate attorneys typically charge small (and reasonable) flat fees, to represent you from the time you go under contract until the time of closing. Litigation attorneys tend to be much more expensive, charging several hundred dollars per hour and requesting a several thousand dollar up front retainer fee to begin working on the matter. Hiring a local real estate attorney will significantly reduce the likelihood of post-closing disputes. Disputes can arise from ambiguities or mistakes in the purchase and sale contract, issues with the condition or state of “title” or problems with the condition of the property after legal ownership has passed to the purchaser. A local real estate attorney will review the contract to make sure that the paragraphs and the terms therein are clear, understandable, customary and otherwise problem free, that any issues with title to the property are discovered and addressed prior to closing, that any agreements regarding repairs to the property are properly memorialized in writing, and that all legally required pre-closing disclosures are properly made. Expensive post-closing litigation is far less likely if both sides hire local real estate attorneys from the time that the contract is signed until the time the closing occurs. Since post-closing litigation is expensive, time consuming and unpredictable (in terms of the likelihood that a favorable result can be obtained) many times the purchaser just ends up having to accept/assume the fact that mistakes were made and the resulting unforeseen financial responsibility and move on.

• Real estate attorneys will save you incredible amounts of time: In a real estate transaction, both the seller and the purchaser have several obligations that must be met before closing. In addition to disclosures, communications must be made initially and continuously. Ongoing communication between the parties is the recipe for a “smooth closing” and is required to satisfy local municipal requirements or to satisfy the multitude of requests made by the lenders, homeowners’ associations, title companies and the county tax assessor who are associated with the property and the transaction as a whole. This is a time-intensive process for even experienced local real estate attorneys who deal with these steps on a regular, if not daily, basis. Even if you can complete these tasks flawlessly and timely without the assistance of an attorney, it will be extremely time consuming for you. More likely, without the assistance of a local real estate attorney, mistakes that are ordinarily preventable will occur and those mistakes often cause the closing to be postponed for several months or the deal to fall through entirely.

• Real estate attorneys make sure that title passes cleanly from the seller to the buyer: One of the key roles that local real estate attorneys play in a real estate transaction is they act as a title agent. The title agent works with the title company to ensure that the seller actually has the right to pass full legal ownership (“title”) of the property to the purchaser. If there are any impediments to this right, a title agent will identify them and work with the parties and the title company to resolve these issues before the transaction is set for closing. In addition to the contract, disclosures, and the due diligence materials provided by the Seller, the purchaser’s attorney typically reviews the plat of survey depicting the property and the deed that is given to the purchaser at closing to ensure that the purchaser actually receives full legal ownership to property that the purchaser has contracted to purchase. This is highly technical work on both sides, and it is extremely important in order to protect the interests of both parties. Keep in mind, because attorneys only represent one party in a real estate transaction, you cannot assume that everything is as it should be/good/OK simply because another party to a real estate transaction has hired a local real estate attorney to assist them.

What Real Estate Law Covers

Real estate law encompasses the purchase and sale of real property, meaning land and any structure on it. It also covers legal issues related to anything that is attached to the property or structures, such as appliances and fixtures. Lawyers who specialize in this branch of the legal system ensure that proper procedures are followed during the acquisition or sale of property. They also may be concerned with the use of property. Real estate law covers deeds, property taxes, estate planning, zoning, and titles. All of these laws vary by state and by local government. Attorneys must be licensed to practice in the state where the transaction is taking place and must be up to date on any local or state changes that could affect a transaction.

Real Estate Attorney’s Responsibilities

A real estate attorney is equipped to prepare and review documents relating to real estate such as purchase agreements, mortgage documents, title documents, and transfer documents. A real estate attorney hired to handle a transaction will always attend the closing with the buyer. This is when the money is paid and the title is transferred. The attorney is there to ensure that the transfer is legal, binding, and in the best interests of the client. During the purchase of a property, the real estate attorney and staff might prepare documents, write title insurance policies, complete title searches on the property, and handle the transfer of funds for the purchase. If the purchase is being financed, the attorney is responsible for paperwork such as the federal HUD-1 Form and related transfer of funds documentation for the buyer’s lender. In the case of a real estate dispute, such as chain of title, lot line problems, or other issues involving contracts, the attorney will resolve the problem. A real estate attorney may also provide legal representation for either a buyer or a seller when a dispute winds up in a courtroom. The real estate attorney obtains facts from both sides of the dispute and tries to bring them to a resolution. This may mean hiring a surveyor or title company to work through some of the details.

Like any lawyer, a real estate lawyer has earned a law degree, which typically takes three years of study for a full-time student, and has passed the state bar exam administered by the state in which he or she practices. Training for a specialization like real estate law may begin with elective courses and internships during law school and may continue afterward for certification in real estate law.

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Expert Property Management Services in Bridgeport, CT

Managing properties can be a daunting task, especially in a bustling city like Bridgeport, Connecticut. Whether you own a residential or commercial property, having a reliable Bridgeport property management service is crucial for maintaining your investment. In this comprehensive blog, we will explore why property management in Bridgeport, CT, is essential and how our expert services can help you achieve peace of mind.

Why Choose Professional Property Management?

Managing a property involves a multitude of tasks, from tenant screening and rent collection to property maintenance and legal compliance. As a property owner, handling these responsibilities on your own can be overwhelming. This is where property management in Bridgeport becomes invaluable. Here are a few reasons why you should consider professional Bridgeport property management services:

Expertise and Experience: Professional property managers bring a wealth of knowledge and experience to the table. They understand the local real estate market, rental trends, and legal requirements in Bridgeport, CT. This expertise ensures that your property is managed efficiently and in compliance with all regulations.

Time-Saving: Managing a property can be time-consuming. By hiring a property management Bridgeport CT service, you can free up your time and focus on other important aspects of your life or business. Property managers handle all the day-to-day operations, allowing you to enjoy the benefits of property ownership without the stress.

Tenant Screening and Retention: Finding reliable tenants is one of the most critical aspects of property management. Professional Bridgeport property management services conduct thorough tenant screenings, including background checks, credit checks, and rental history verification. This ensures that you have responsible and trustworthy tenants. Additionally, property managers work to maintain positive tenant relationships, which can lead to higher retention rates.

Efficient Rent Collection: Timely rent collection is essential for maintaining cash flow and covering property expenses. Property management in Bridgeport CT ensures that rent is collected on time, and they handle any issues related to late payments or non-payment professionally.

Maintenance and Repairs: Keeping your property in top condition is crucial for attracting and retaining tenants. Professional property managers coordinate regular maintenance and repairs, ensuring that your property remains in excellent shape. They also have a network of trusted contractors and vendors, which can result in cost savings for you.

Legal Compliance: Property management involves navigating a complex web of laws and regulations. A professional property management Bridgeport service ensures that your property complies with all local, state, and federal laws. This includes lease agreements, eviction procedures, and safety regulations.

Our Comprehensive Bridgeport Property Management Services

At Idoni Management, we offer a wide range of Bridgeport property management services tailored to meet your specific needs. Our goal is to provide you with a hassle-free property ownership experience. Here are some of the key services we offer:

Tenant Placement and Screening: We find and screen tenants for your property, ensuring that you have responsible and reliable renters. Our thorough screening process includes background checks, credit checks, and reference verification.

Rent Collection and Financial Reporting: We handle rent collection and provide you with detailed financial reports, so you always know the status of your property’s finances.

Property Maintenance and Repairs: Our team coordinates all necessary maintenance and repairs, ensuring that your property remains in top condition. We also conduct regular property inspections to identify and address any potential issues.

Lease Management: We prepare and manage lease agreements, ensuring that all legal requirements are met. We also handle lease renewals and terminations as needed.

Eviction Services: In the unfortunate event that eviction becomes necessary, we handle the entire process professionally and legally, minimizing your stress and potential legal risks.

24/7 Emergency Response: Emergencies can happen at any time. Our team is available 24/7 to respond to any urgent issues that may arise at your property.

Why Bridgeport, CT?

Bridgeport, Connecticut, is a vibrant city with a rich history and a promising future. As the largest city in the state, Bridgeport offers a diverse range of opportunities for property owners and investors. Its strategic location, along with a growing economy, makes it an attractive place for real estate investment. By choosing property management in Bridgeport CT, you can ensure that your investment is well-protected and positioned for long-term success.

Conclusion

Investing in professional Bridgeport property management services is a smart decision for any property owner. With our expertise, experience, and dedication, we ensure that your property is managed to perfection. Whether you need assistance with tenant placement, rent collection, maintenance, or legal compliance, we have you covered. Contact us today to learn more about how our property management in Bridgeport CT can benefit you and your property.

Contact Us

By entrusting your property to a professional property management Bridgeport service, you can enjoy the rewards of property ownership without the associated stress and challenges. Let us handle the complexities while you reap the benefits. Get in touch with us today for a consultation and take the first step towards hassle-free property management in Bridgeport, CT.