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Commercial Real Estate Disputes
Commercial leases, lockouts and evictions, purchase contracts that fall apart, guaranties, title, easements and co-owner fights.
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Commercial Real Estate Disputes
Tenant Improvement and Build-Out Disputes
TI disputes turn on the lease's work letter: allowance conditions, delivery deadlines, delay remedies and offset rights. A tenant's contractor liens the leasehold, not the fee.
Commercial Real Estate Disputes
The Buyer Walked Away. Earnest Money Disputes in Texas
When a commercial buyer walks, the contract decides who keeps the earnest money. Texas enforces forfeiture as liquidated damages if it was a reasonable forecast, not a penalty.
Commercial Real Estate Disputes
The Seller Backed Out of Our Commercial Real Estate Deal. What Now?
A Texas buyer whose seller refuses to close can seek specific performance, damages or the earnest money, and file a lis pendens. First confirm the seller had no contractual exit.
Commercial Real Estate Disputes
The Seller Hid Property Defects. Claims in a Commercial Real Estate Deal
Texas's disclosure statute is residential only. A buyer's claims are fraud, fraud by nondisclosure and statutory fraud under § 27.01, and an as-is clause has limits.
Commercial Real Estate Disputes
The Statute of Frauds: Why Real Estate Deals Must Be in Writing in Texas
Under Business and Commerce Code § 26.01 a contract to sell real estate, or a lease longer than one year, is unenforceable unless written and signed by the party to be charged.
Commercial Real Estate Disputes
Wrongful Foreclosure Claims on Commercial Property in Texas
Wrongful foreclosure in Texas needs a sale defect, a grossly inadequate price and a causal link. Property Code § 51.002 sets the notice rules; § 51.003 limits deficiencies.