Quit claim deed on property

My wife is the primary borrower and there is a co borrower wherein she my wife quit claimed last year. The co-borrower assumed on the property but then decided she cant pay the mortgage and she will do a short sale now. Banks are now calling my wife to pay the mortgage. What can we do? Is our primary residence protected ? How about our asset and savings as well as 401K ? Please advice.

Bad title search

In 2004 purchased a property with apparent clear title. In 2008 discovered title was not clear during refinance and previous owner still has 50% ownership rights. Made significant improves to land & home (+600k). What recourse do I have to closing attorney & seller for fraudulent sale? Can seller place conditions on property before he signs (property rights?), if he signs? Closing attorney recommended I NOT get title insurance. It was not necessary. Need advice..very large investment

Homestead

If a couple are joint owners of property, but not married do we use the couples form or the do we each file a single form to homestead our property?

propery ownership in arizona

I live with my boyfriend and he recently purchased a home. The mortgage is in his name only but i pay half of the mortgage. I need to know if there is any form that we can sign to will give me interest of 100% of the property should he die. this is in Arizona

CA Real Estate Brokerage, Place of Business Requirement

Are real estate brokers in California required to have a physical office seperate from their home, or can a broker operate out of a home office?

i got screwed by a broker

ok me and my boyfriend were in the market to rent an apartment we found one and viewed it ect. met with the broker and he told us a bunch of info but did not tell us the whole story, so my boyfriend gave him a deposit just to take the apartment off the market, at least thats what we thought, but turns out we didnt want the apartment anymore so now he is saying the papers my boyfriend signed states that if we do not take the apartment we forfit the deposit but he did not give us any info as to what my boyfriend was signing. Now i realize that my boyfriend made the clasic mistake of not reading what he was signing, but i on the other hand did not sign anything my question to you is, is there any loop hole to us getting our money back since i did not sign any papers and the broker knew i was also suposed to be living in the apartment?

Limited power of attorney for purchase of real estate

Given that I live in the Emirates, and the california form for power of attorney requires a notary public; would any notary public here (UAE) authorized by the States do to help me send the form?

Realtor commission

I talked with a real estate agent who said that his fees would be negotiable. My wife signed both her name and my name (without my consent) to a listing agent contract with this agent specifying 6% commission. She says that the agent saw her sign my name to the contract. The agent is not negotiating and wants to charge the complete 6%. Is the contract binding?

want to sell our house to an investor

we are close to foreclosure and was informed buy a real estate agent that he had an investor that would buy our house from us and that we would still be able to stay in our house as renters and then in 2 years we could buy our house back for $15,000.00 more than what they had bought it for at the time of sale does this sound legal and can this be done?

land

what do i need to do to give a small portion of land to my daughter

Real Estate

My daughter bought a house and when she received the title it had a 10 foot easement listed on it which we weren't told about. Now the property behind her house is being cleared off. Do we need an attorney?

Does any (even minor) modification to the contract constitute a counter offer?

We signed and faxed over a purchase contract to the seller. The seller accepted the contract. Due to various circumstances, we changed our mind on the house and want to back out.

When the seller signed our original purchase contract and faxed it back, they made some very minor changes to the contract. For example, we marked that the refrigerator does not have an icemaker when in fact it does. Normally we are now expected to initial those changes to proceed forward. Do these minor changes constitute a counter proposal that we can just reject instead of moving forward?

It's unfortunate we need to do this, but at least this is very early in the process. Since we also the home inspection contingency clause, I believe we could back out after the home inspection (possibly by asking for something unreasonable), but we'd prefer not getting to that step.

Real Estate Law

My husband and I purchased a house that we were told was built in 1989. All of the documents that we received at closing state that 1989 was when the house was built. We just found out that it was actually built in 1977. Obviously the value of the house is not going to be what we would anticipate. What should we do?

Property

My parents have some property in Palm Springs, CA and In is in their will for me when they die, but I would like to know if they can give it to me before that time. My mother tells me they cant give it to me they would have to sell it to me.This doesn't sound right to me. My father is ill and could pass in the next 2-3 years. Can they give the property to me if they choose to or do they have to sell it to me???

California General Partnership

Can a California General Partnership holding title on a commercial piece of property be sold/purchased by an individual or another entity? Not to avoid taxes but rather for purchase of property and assumption of sellers interests.

rental repair

our tenants are 8 weeks from ending

their lease. there is a repair issue in

the main shower that requires the

shower be replaced. we would like to

replace the flooring and vanity as

well. tenants are displeased at the

disruption in their home (the project

will take 1-2 weeks depending on

tenant cooperation). it would be

much more costly for us to split

improvements into two job bids. are

we allowed to make the

improvements, or only the repair?

illegal tree cutting

my neighbor tresspassed on my property, cut down 2 of my trees and stole the wood. What recourse do I have?

The house I am leasing is set for sheriff's sale.

I signed a lease buy agreement in Oct of 06 with the intent of remodeling the home while living in it and purchasing it in 18 mos.I just found out the home has been in foreclosure with a judgement awarded in Nov 2006 and is set for a sheriff's sale on Feb 22--what can I do to buy some time by delaying the sale or stopping it??

Quick Claim Deed

What legal right does someone have to a piece of property if they were quick claim deeded to the property but are not on the actual mortgage or original title?

Disclosure statement

We are the 3rd owner of a resale home in Henderson, NV. We woul like to know if there is a way we can get get access to the real estate documents between the 1st and 2nd owner to see if owner #1 disclosed any structural damage he was aware of to owner #2.

We have evidence that owner #1 was definitely aware of some major structural issues, but would like to find out if owner #2 was disclosed this information when he purchased the home.

Owner #2 did not reveal any structural issues to us in the real estate dsiclosure docs.