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Court: Landlord Is Not Responsible To Tenant For Fire Damage
A recent decision by a federal district court in Western Pennsylvania stressed how most tenants in multiunit buildings do not clearly understand the...
Publications (18)
Court Refuses To Look Beyond Written Agreement Of Sale
In most situations, before real estate is transferred from the seller to the purchaser, the parties to the real estate transaction enter into a...
Is Changed Form Contract Signed A Binding Agreement Or Counteroffer?
Most residential real estate transactions in Pennsylvania are entered into by way of the form documents created by the Pennsylvania Association of...
Landlord Can’t Amend Complaint After Confessing Judgment Against Tenant
As the country continues to suffer from the recession, commercial landlords throughout Pennsylvania are being forced to deal with defaulting tenants...
Attempted Oral Modification Of Written Agreement Of Sale Disallowed
Whether the purchase involves residential or commercial real estate, the mindset should be the same, buyer beware. Because most real estate...
Attorney’s Fee Provision In Residential Lease Enforced Against Defaulting Tenant
In Pennsylvania, parties to litigation are responsible for their own legal fees and costs unless they otherwise contractually agree that the...
Court: City’s Liability Limited On Sidewalk “Slip And Falls”
The common law has traditionally imposed on property owners the duty to maintain the sidewalks abutting their properties. However, pedestrians should...
Mortgage Lender, Broker Absolved For Loan Irregularities
Nowadays, there is at least one newspaper or television account of how the residential mortgage crisis was caused by the shaky underwriting practices...
Developer Cannot Sue In Federal Court To Challenge State Court Judgment
In Flannery v. Mid Penn Bank, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania recently rejected a judgment debtor’s attempt to...
Association Can’t ‘Selectively Prosecute’ Property Rights
What happens when your neighbor accidently builds a physical structure onto land which adversely affects your property interest to access that land?...