Gary Singer

A reader asks real estate lawyer Gary Singer: Our condo building is being tented for termite treatment. Do all of the owners have to leave for a few days?

A reader asks real estate lawyer Gary Singer: Our buyer couldn’t get financing for the purchase and canceled the contract. Do we have to return the deposit?

Q: We recently signed a contract to sell our home. Yesterday, our real estate agent told us the buyer was canceling because they could not get financing.

Q: Two years ago, we filled out the appropriate form with paint samples for the house, trim, and a new roof and submitted it to our community association, which the board approved.

A reader asks real estate lawyer Gary Singer: A leak from a roof drain needs to be repaired in the wall between the two homes in our duplex. Do I have to pay for all of the repairs myself?

A reader asks real estate lawyer Gary Singer: What advice can you offer on making a final mortgage payment, good procedures to follow, and if there’s a simple, inexpensive way to put the condo in b…

A reader asks real estate lawyer Gary Singer: Shortly before the scheduled closing on our new home, one of the sellers died unexpectedly. What can we do next?

A reader asks real estate lawyer Gary Singer: My neighbor’s dead tree could fall on my house. How would the financial liability play out between us, them, and our respective insurance compani…

Q: My neighbor has a large pine tree that died this summer. It is five feet from our shared property line and within range of damaging our home if it falls.

Q: About 12 years ago, I put in a pool surrounded by a chain-link fence after obtaining the appropriate permits. I put mesh slats in the fence to increase privacy.