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REAL ESTATE DISPUTES Situation:
You are about to settle on your new home and find that what was represented
to you and your realtor is not accurate. The realtors have tried to negotiate
but you want to talk with the owner and can’t seem to get access.
You really want the house and want to figure out a remedy.
Situation: Your small family business has existed for
over thirty years. A large real estate development company has begun building
in your area. You receive several letters with “buy-out” offers.
You decline. The company builds around you but blocks convenient access
to your location. As a result business has significantly declined. When
you contact the real estate development company, you find that their only
compromise is to buy you out. You refuse and threaten to go to court but
you know your small business cannot sustain the financial strain imposed
by legal action.
Situation: There are several homes, within the neighborhood
where you just purchased your house, which have portable basketball courts
in their front yard. After moving in you set up your son’s basketball
court as others have done. Several weeks later you receive a letter from
the homeowners’ association indicating that the basketball court
is a violation of the homeowners’ policy. You remove the court.
Feeling as though you’ve been unfairly pointed out, you write a
letter to the association complaining of the other basketball courts in
the neighborhood. Seemingly, the association takes no action, doesn’t
respond to you, and the basketball courts remain.
Situation: You own several residential and warehouse
properties throughout the city. You learn that the city had demolished
one of your warehouses without prior notice to you. The city offers to
reimburse you a pittance of the warehouse’s worth. You decline and
contact your attorney.
Each of the situations above represents some of the varieties of real
estate matters that Baltimore Mediation mediators can handle for you.
Ranging in complexity, real estate disputes may include disagreements
between real estate owner/real estate developer; homeowner/homeowner association;
property owner/city government; landlord/tenant; buyer/seller; broker/agent;
broker/broker; and contractor/client, to name a few. Real estate disputes
usually involve two or more parties and often include the attorneys of
the disputing parties. Resolution of these disputes through the legal
system is often time consuming and lengthy in nature. Most real estate
matters are time of the essence situations.
Baltimore Mediation offers an effective and expedient mediation approach
to dispute resolution. The mediation is a confidential facilitated process
of consensual discussion and negotiation that allows the parties involved
in a dispute the opportunity to exchange views and collaborate to find
solutions. The mediation belongs to the parties rather than to a judge,
the attorneys, or the mediator. Baltimore Mediation mediators seek to
help the parties who are in dispute shift from adversarial perspectives
to perspectives characterized by greater openness and responsiveness
Baltimore Mediation mediators are professionals with
extensive backgrounds in real estate, law, human resources, homeowner
associations, boards of directors, residential and commercial contracting,
and business management. Baltimore Mediation mediators are experienced
and specially trained in communication and the art of conflict transformation.
They know how to handle difficult situations involving groups and individuals.
Baltimore Mediation mediators help all involved to work out the best possible
solutions and in most cases in only a few hours or a full day session.
For more information contact the Baltimore Mediation. Better Process…Better
Outcome.
Also see Contract Disputes.
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