Recent Blog Posts
You Catch More Tenants With Perks
“Reasonably priced” has always been a relative term. Even if you have designed a mathematical formula to decide how much is a reasonable amount to pay for a given purchase, your formula is unlike someone else’s, such that, by following the laws of mathematics, you will arrive at different amounts that you consider reasonable. … Read More »
Appraisal Management Companies: Friend or Foe?
When you buy a real estate property, it is easy to feel like you must jump through an endless series of hoops before you can close on the sale. You know that closing almost always ends up costing more than you expected, so you set aside some extra money for the purpose, even if… Read More »
Common Legal Issues New Businesses Face
The entrepreneurship content that you watch when you are too broke to go out and too demoralized to respond to text messages from friends and family will lead you to believe that all you need to start a successful business is an original idea and oodles of charisma. They are mostly saying this to… Read More »
Are Non-Probate Assets Overrated?
Probate is an unpleasant reminder that there is no such thing as a free lunch. You know how, in order to get your income tax refund, you must complete the process of filing your income tax returns, and even when you do that, the refund you receive is a lot less than you were… Read More »
Bad News Beneficiaries for Non-Probate Assets
If your estate plan includes some non-probate assets, you are off to a good start, but complacency is the enemy of every estate plan, so don’t assume that you have all your ducks in a row just because you bought a life insurance policy years ago when your employer offered it to you as… Read More »
A Farewell to Real Estate Love Letters
When you were young, older people probably told you that the best thing about being old is that you no longer care as much about what other people think, and therefore, you no longer have to try so hard to impress people. In your own life, you can probably be grateful for the ways… Read More »
Beneficial Ownership Information
Paperwork is an inescapable reality of operating a business. Being good at paperwork is not enough to enable you to generate demand for your products or to make your products affordable when materials are expensive and consumers are on a tight budget, but no one ever tanked a business by filling out too much… Read More »
Estate Planning Goals for 2025
Even the scammiest for-profit colleges will teach you that the best goals you can set are attainable ones. Shooting for the moon is an exercise in frustration unless it is a front for a more modest goal, such as “outdo my previous record.” That is why, this year, you should not resolve to adopt… Read More »
The Reluctant Personal Representative
If someone is overjoyed at the thought of being the personal representative of a deceased person’s estate, it is hard not to wonder whether something is amiss. The best-case scenario is that the enthusiastic personal representative is a probate lawyer who loves his job because his personal life is so dismal that work is… Read More »
Beware of Posthumous Financial Crime
Financial abuse of the elderly is common, but this does not make it any less of an ordeal for the elderly people targeted by the abuse or for the family members who love them and worry about them. If you acted as a caregiver to a family member in his or her old age,… Read More »
