A friend of mine found out the hard way that her name wasn’t on the deed to a property she helped purchase.
The lawyer at the real estate closing didn’t check the names before recording the deed in the New Hanover County Recorder of Deeds office. Had the lawyer actually checked the deed, she would have [...]

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Did you know that at the typical real estate closing, the lawyer really doesn’t represent you the new buyer?. The closing attorney actually represents the lender. Of course you are paying the fee.
And while I’m on this subject, the lawyers themselves do very little of the work to prepare for your closing. It’s the paralegals [...]

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He doesn’t return phone calls, give straight answers or anything. All I wanted to do was to evict someone from one of my rental properties. Does he not need the money? Perhaps he has already hosed someone else on the billable hours that day.
Evictions aren’t rocket science. All he had to to was issue a [...]

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