Real Property

Can We Transfer Property to a LLC Without Considering It a Sale?
We Purchased investment property in both husband/wife names(sales price $47,500); Deed was recorded on 3/7/11; We want to transfer property to our LLC , which is also in husband/wife names; it is a Special Warranty Deed which reads: 'GRANTEE HEREIN SHALL BE PROHIBITED FROM CONVEYING CAPTIONED PROPERTY TO A BONFIRE PURCHASER FOR VALUE FOR A SALES PRICE OF GREATER THAN $57,300 FOR A PERIOD OF THREE MONTHS FROM THE DATE OF THIS DEED. GRANTEE SHALL ALSO BE PROHIBITED FROM ENCUMBERING SUBJECT PROPERTY WITH A SECURITY INTEREST IN THE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF GREATER THAN $57,300 FOR A PERIOD OF THREE MONTHS FROM THE DATE OF THIS DEED. THESE RESTRICTIONS SHALL RUN WITH THE LAND AND ARE NOT PERSONAL TO GRANTEE. THIS RESTRICTION SHALL TERMINATE IMMEDIATELY UPON CONVEYANCE AT ANY FORECLOSURE SALE RELATED TO A MORTGAGE OR DEED OF TRUST' Since we are not selling the property; can we Quit Claim it to our LLC prior to the three month period?? If the Quit Claim is 'legal' to do immediately, can you handle this for a fee; can we personally do this; would this cause potential issues explaining that the property was not sold?
Can a Person Advertise for Funds to Purchase Distressed Properties?
IN FLORIDA , CAN YOU ADVERTISE FOR FIRST MORTGAGE MONEY USED TO PURCHASE REO'S AND OTHER DISTRESS PROPERTY?
Can I stop a utility company from changing the equipment used in the easement?
I signed a waterline right of way and easement,they put the waterline in the ground in november 2010 and in marsh 2011, The gas drilling company redug the ground and put a fiberoptic line in without my agreement or a contract,The landman said they would sue me if i tried to stop them. This is what my agreement says, A permanent easement and right of way for the purposes of laying,constructing,maintaining,operating,altering,repairing,replacing,changing the size of and removing a single pipeline,within the right of way with all necessary and convenient valves,connections,fittings,and appurtenances for transportation of water and products associated therewith, on, over, under, through and across a stripe of land thirty feet wide. DO I have any rights to stop the fiber optic line.
What Can Be Done About Water From a Neighbor's Land Harming Our Property?
My property is a 100 x 200 rectangle. One adjoining property owned by another family (The Pitts) is 80 ft wide and adjoins the last 80 feet of our top property line--like two dominoes. The Pitts land slopes at a pretty good angle into the Taylor land. The Taylor land slopes at a lesser degree but has a ridge in the center to guide Pitts draining water towards the back of our property and on down the hill. The water drainage system planned for these two lots when they first graded for construction in 1980 was sheet flow. The Pitts have built two obstructions to this drainage: in 2006 they laid down a line of landscape limbers snuggly end-to-end across their entire bottom border with our property which is in the middle of an incline. This became the first diversion collecting draining water and allowing it to run along the line of timers to exit in their lower right corner near our house! then last year in June of 2010 they laid down a line of paving stone (again fitted snuggley together) in a U shape to enclose their entire lower back yard which diverts even more water down and out the lower right corner towards our house building, some is sheet flow but the left and right sides form flumes and 2/3rds of the total drainage is concertrated thru a center hole about 48' wide which they lined with stones which I call the 'canal.' Question: their storm water drainage used to drain down the back third of our lot to our lowest & farthest corner and on down the hill. This drainage water is now being diverted out of their lowest righthand corner onto our lot near our house. Can they change the destination of this water? (Note: the U design on the last five feet of the back of their property includes plantings of a few azaleas and hostas, etc sandwiched between the paver border and the landscape timber border. Their back yard is mostly packed dirt so during a hard rain it acts like an aluminum sliding board carrying dirt and debris (silt?) down to deposit into our beautiful green, grassy areas. The rush and force of the water is digging trenches thru our property and depositing silt way down the hill.)
What are the Residency Requirements for a Homestead Exemption in Florida?
can two pepole married owning a home in maine legally take a homestead tax exemption in the state of fl by saying one lives in fl 6months or more. the wife stays in maine still working