Real Estate
Private Roads, Joint Driveways, and Easements
Many properties in Wisconsin have some form of shared access. It can be as simple as a portion of the driveway crossing the neighbor's property to more complicated scenarios where an access road crosses multiple properties and provides access to numerous...
Vacation Rentals and Restrictive Covenants
The vacation rental market has exploded in recent years due to the popularity of online sites such as Airbnb, VRBO, and HomeAway. While these sites have created a booming marketplace for homeowners and renters alike, they have also created a myriad of...
Credit Freeze
Nearly half of Americans may have had their information stolen in the massive Equifax data breach revealed last week. One way to protect yourself from further harm is to freeze your credit. A credit freeze prevents creditors from accessing your...
“As Is” Clause in Real Estate Agreement
When using an “as is” clause, the seller and the realtor are still obligated to make disclosures about the property, unless the buyers executed a valid waiver to receive the real estate condition report. Under Wis. Stat. § 709.01, the law requires that sellers of real...
Imperfect Title: A Survey Exception Primer
There is little risk in presuming that the majority of homeowners rate their property as their most important asset. Paradoxically, homeowners likely know more about their car insurance than the insurance purchased for the purpose of protecting legal title to their...
Seller’s Closing Costs
Many sellers of real estate do not realize the costs associated with selling real estate in Wisconsin. I am frequently in meetings with clients and catch sellers by surprise when I start mentioning the fees that are associated with the standard offer to purchase form...
Seller’s “Right to Cure”
A Seller’s “right to cure” does not mean that the Seller must cure any defects uncovered during a home inspection. Rather, a Seller’s “right to cure” means that the Seller simply has the option to cure a defect once the Buyer notifies the Seller that there are defects...
Managed Forest Land Program Changes
The enactment of 2015 Wisconsin Act 358 on April 16, 2016 (Act) has caused significant changes to the Managed Forest Law (MFL) Program. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) monitors the MFL Program which was created to incentivize private forestland...