By Steve Tree disputes are one of the top disputes between property owners. A neighbor’s tree may be extending over your fence, blocking your view, dropping leaves into your pool, and their roots may be destroying the fence and cracking your driveway. What are you to do? California Civil Code section 733 bars anyone from […]

By Steve Most people tend to believe that a real estate sales commission is owed when the transaction closes and the property is officially sold. This belief makes sense since that is when the real estate agents actually get paid from the sale proceeds. But that is not necessarily the case and certainly is not […]

By Steve In response to rapidly deteriorating financial market conditions in the late summer and early fall of 2008, Congress enacted the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act. The centerpiece of the Act was the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), which required the Secretary of the Treasury to ‘implement a plan that seeks to maximize assistance for […]