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Selecting the right real estate attorney and law firm to partner with you is as critical to your long-term success as are the decisions you make in your projects - such as site selection, hiring architects and contractors, and choosing building materials, etc.

As a Taft client, you can utilize the intellectual capital of more than 30 intensely motivated and focused attorneys with extensive experience in all facets of real estate:
  • Acquisition and development
  • Leasing
  • Financing
  • Construction and management agreements
  • Land use issues: zoning, platting, variances, eminent domain, and annexation
  • Tax disputes and appeals
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  • Environmental concerns, defense, and litigation
With a solid foundation in Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky, Taft Real Estate attorneys deliver comprehensive legal services and will leave nothing to chance on your account. That's because your success, and ours, depends on it. 
Where are the Real Estate Bargains?"
Monica Gearding
Monica L. Gearding
gearding@taftlaw.com
(317) 713-3614
LinkedIn
Real estate investors are looking for the bargains that motivated sellers should be offering. Some frustrated investors are asking, "Where are the real estate bargains?" 

The simple answer is that the bargains are out there, if you have cash and are willing to take a few risks. Sellers are demanding shorter due diligence periods and accepting less money to get them. 


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New Mortgage Law Could Cause Big Changes for Seller Financers and Land Sale Contracts
Erick Ponader
Erick D. Ponader
eponader@taftlaw.com
(317) 713-3699
LinkedIn

Marci Reddick
Marci A. Reddick
mreddick@taftlaw.com
(317) 713-3435
LinkedIn
Ft. Wayne title insurance company owner Joseph Garretson seemed the epitome of success: $700,000 home, Cadillac Escalade, and country club membership. Garretson, however, didn't pay off his customer's original loans when he refinanced their mortgages. Instead, he pocketed $3.4 million in loan proceeds. Eventually, the scheme unraveled. In June, he was sentenced to 11 years in prison for his crimes.

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Bedbugs: Not Just a Cute Rhyme Anymore
Marci Reddick
Marci A. Reddick
mreddick@taftlaw.com
(317) 713-3435
LinkedIn
If it seems as if bedbugs are everywhere in the media it is because they are just about everywhere in the United States. The bedbug menace many decades ago was reduced to just being the subject of a cute song kids sang before going to bed thanks to better pesticides and sanitary conditions. However, the prohibition on the use of DDT and the resilient evolution of bedbugs to have thicker shells and improved nerve centers means that they are back, with a vengeance.

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New Market Tax Credits Can Help Fill the Financing Gap
David Tavolier
David R. Tavolier
dtavolier@taftlaw.com
(216) 706-3838
LinkedIn

An oftentimes overlooked but potentially advantageous source for filling the financing gap of real estate new construction/rehabilitation projects and business capital investment projects is the financing subsidy that can be obtained through new market tax credits ("NMTCs"). Taft has experience utilizing NMTCs in connection with new construction and rehabilitation projects related to hotels, medical office buildings, mixed-use office/residential projects, retail shopping centers, solar energy projects, and industrial park projects.

 

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Recent Honors

Marci Reddick, partner in Taft's Real Estate Practice Group, has been inducted into the first annual Midwest Commercial Real Estate Hall of Fame. Reddick was nominated by her commercial real estate peers and chosen as one of 60 of the most important commercial real estate professionals in the Midwest. She is the only Indiana attorney honored and only one of two attorneys honored in the group. Other honorees include real estate developers and commercial real estate brokers.



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February 2011 Issue
Where are the Real Estate Bargains?
New Mortgage Law Could Cause Big Changes
Bedbugs: Not Just a Cute Rhyme Anymore
New Market Tax Credits Can Help Fill the Financing Gap
Recent Honors






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