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How Savvy Real-Estate Investors Can Maximize Returns in Today’s Distressed Market
In today’s climate of rising interest rates, stretched borrower balance sheets, and starkly uneven recovery across asset classes, defaulted loans have emerged as a prime hunting ground for investors with legal acumen. Capturing this opportunity requires more than a blunt foreclosure “hammer” — it demands a surgical enforcement playbook.
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Real Property Law
Town Did Not Obtain Prescriptive Easement to Discharges Stormwater Over Neighboring Land -Adverse Possession Claim Rejected Because Use Was Permissive -No Injunction Against State for Failure to Stop Neighbor’s Unauthorized Use of State Property -Foreclosing Lender Entitled to Second Opportunity to Establish Fair Market Value In Attempt To Recover Deficiency Judgment -Offer to Purchase Does Not Negate Hostility Requirement for Establishing Adverse Possession
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Development
Variance Annulled For Failure to Make Findings of Fact -Variance Denial Upheld When Owner’s Hardship Was Self-Created
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Co-ops and Condominiums
Shareholder’s Easement By Necessity Claim Reinstated
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Landlord & Tenant Law
Class Certification Upheld On Habitablity Claim -Colorable Claim of Fraud Justifies Looking Back Past Four Years -Tenant Entitled to Return of Deposit Because Lease Was Illegal
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