Real Estate Law & Litigation

The law firm of Paula E. Meyer & Associates is uniquely qualified to be "your real estate firm."

Ms. Meyer has represented real estate investors, individual homeowners, homeowners' associations, public agencies, real estate brokers and agents, mortgage bankers and brokers, property managers, escrow companies, title companies, trustees, design professionals, contractors and sub-contractors in more than 1,500 real estate disputes. Ms. Meyer has litigated every imaginable real estate issue, as well as regularly provided counsel with respect to the following:

Real estate brokerage law and licensing
Duties of real estate professionals, sellers and buyers
Liability of real estate brokers, agents and principals for alleged fraud, breach of fiduciary duties, negligence, breach of statutory duties, breach of contract, etc.
Alleged undisclosed defects (subsidence, environmental, construction, improvements absent permits, or not to code, mold, etc.)
Department of Real Estate and Board of Realtors hearings
Real Estate acquisitions and sales

Preparation and review of residential, commercial, and industrial real estate contracts and disclosure forms
Counsel regarding necessary due diligence
Enforcement of real estate sales contracts and listing agreements, notices of pending action (lis pendens), and Motions to Expunge

Construction law
Eminent domain and inverse condemnation
Environmental law
Escrow law
Financing
Homeowners' association law, CC&R interpretation and enforcement
Leasing, residential and commercial, including lease negotiations and preparation of leases, lease disputes, unlawful detainer actions, and actions to enforce lease terms and conditions
Partition actions
Premises liability
Title law (claims regarding liens, boundary issues, easements, adverse possession, etc.)
Water law

Ms. Meyer frequently presents seminars to both real estate sales office managers, and salespersons, regarding current issues in real estate law, new laws and new forms.

Additionally, Ms. Meyer has collected substantial commissions owed real estate brokers by their clients.