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What types of real estate disputes give rise to lawsuits?
What types of real estate disputes give rise to lawsuits?
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in real estate there sometimes you know
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litigation at the transaction level in
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other words it’s a purchase and sale
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agreement that’s signed and trying to
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work through those issues to make sure
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the property gets conveyed in a timely
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fashion and in a way that the parties
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wanted meaning that the property is not
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encumbered those are you know generally
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pretty straightforward type disputes and
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sometimes they do boil over into
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litigation because someone’s trying to
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get out of a transaction some of the
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interesting trends there is that many
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real estate brokers convey offers back
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and forth through text messages so one
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of the interesting issues that have come
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up that we have litigated is whether or
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not a text message is a sufficient
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writing to be enforceable under the law
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and that’s a developing area of the law
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there is some case law at the at the
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trial level but there’s not a lot of
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case law at the appellate level so we
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look for that to continue to develop the
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other issues that we have dealt with is
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oftentimes and land use issues
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interpreting easements or interpreting
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whether or not you know a property can
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be used in a way that that they want to
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use it sometimes that means access over
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private ways access over public ways and
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the full meaning you know it’s
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encompassed in an easement so that can
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oftentimes also lead to disputes between
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parties
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Boston, MA commercial litigation attorney Robert R. Berluti talks about the common types of real estate disputes give rise to lawsuits.
