The Residential Real Estate Contract: A Legal Guide for Kansas City Homebuyers
Consider this: You’re about to electronically sign a 16-page real estate contract on your phone while sitting in your car between work meetings. The document governs a $600,000 transaction, specifically the purchase of a house in Overland Park, Kansas. Your agent says it’s the “standard form” and “everyone uses it.” Do you read all 16 […]
Purchasing Recreational Real Estate in Kansas and Missouri
Aside from life’s most precious moments, there may be no greater joy than that evoked when a person walks through his own land. The feelings of complete freedom and autonomy are overwhelmingly positive, perhaps intoxicating. One can look out and see rows of trees, open fields, and blue skies; hear the sounds of a gentle […]
Should You Use an Attorney or a Real Estate Agent to Sell or Purchase Your Home?
In our last blog post, we wrote about the relationship between deeds and real estate contracts, explaining the merger doctrine. After reading that post, you now understand that the particular language of a real estate contract and the subsequent deed of conveyance is of utmost importance. Getting a professional to prepare those for you, as […]
Real Estate Contracts vs. Real Estate Deeds: Does One Trump the Other?
In our last blog post about real estate law, we wrote about deeds, breaking down some of the similarities and differences between warranty deeds and quitclaim deeds. After reading that post, you now know that deeds are an essential component of any real property sale whether of a commercial, residential, or agricultural nature. You might […]
Warranty Deeds vs. Quitclaim Deeds
Buying or selling real estate, whether of a commercial, residential, or agricultural nature, is exciting but brings with it a host of considerations that may affect the parties involved in the transaction for years to come. Real estate investors, business owners, and families need to know about two of the main types of written legal […]